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Noise is up, signal is down. More garbage deals, less slick deals
May 20, 2025 at
04:38 PM
I am engaging less with SD lately because the site quality has gone down considerably.
The site redesign and changes are possibly related, but there is another thread for that complaint already.
I just want to complain about deal quality: It's gotten much worse over the last two years.
I am seeing less good deals. I understand that the market/economy may not be in a position where there is a lot of deals going on and understand that. So the number of deals posted should go down, but that's not what has happened.
Instead, deals posted feels like it's gone up, and the quality has gone down. Absolute garbage obviously-higher-than-normal prices are getting +4 votes easily.
Staff posts automatically float up to +4 and then stop. It's very obvious what is going on here.
Idiots are posting $64 wire cutters. The price has almost never been higher and similar competing products are in the $10-$20 range. Literally tool-fashion brand influencers posting anti-deals and FOMO deranged hamster-tappers panic-upvote it.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17861469-knipex-bolt-end-cutting-nippers-61-01-200-64-97-w-free-ship-amazon-uk-64-97
Sixty
Four
Dollar
Wire
Nippers
I already own one of these with the better handle. It's not worth $40, and $60 is a joke.
The site redesign and changes are possibly related, but there is another thread for that complaint already.
I just want to complain about deal quality: It's gotten much worse over the last two years.
I am seeing less good deals. I understand that the market/economy may not be in a position where there is a lot of deals going on and understand that. So the number of deals posted should go down, but that's not what has happened.
Instead, deals posted feels like it's gone up, and the quality has gone down. Absolute garbage obviously-higher-than-normal prices are getting +4 votes easily.
Staff posts automatically float up to +4 and then stop. It's very obvious what is going on here.
Idiots are posting $64 wire cutters. The price has almost never been higher and similar competing products are in the $10-$20 range. Literally tool-fashion brand influencers posting anti-deals and FOMO deranged hamster-tappers panic-upvote it.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17861469-knipex-bolt-end-cutting-nippers-61-01-200-64-97-w-free-ship-amazon-uk-64-97
Sixty
Four
Dollar
Wire
Nippers
I already own one of these with the better handle. It's not worth $40, and $60 is a joke.
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