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Deal Alerts no longer working for me

27 26 October 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My deal alerts stopped working a while ago. The most basic one is "quicken." It no longer triggers.

I saw the home page had a Sam's Club membership for $15 (personalized section) or $20 ("front page slickdeals" section)

I also saw this guide on making better alerts: https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=67718300&postcount=540

I created an alert and kept making it more generic until I got to: @title membership

I was warned it would send many triggers. But when I ran it, "your deal matches" had zero hits. Even though I was staring at active sam's club memberships if I did a manual search.

Has the deal alert function just completely broken? Thank you.
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10-05-2025 at 07:38 AM.
10-05-2025 at 07:38 AM.
Moved this post to the site issues forum so the tech team can see it
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lefty13rent
10-05-2025 at 08:17 AM.
10-05-2025 at 08:17 AM.
Same issue here - I also get zero hits on any of my existing or new alert triggers. It looks like it stopped working on September 20th - I've received no alert emails since 9/19, and before that I at least got two summary emails per day.
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JoeBlowAZ
10-07-2025 at 07:07 PM.
10-07-2025 at 07:07 PM.
Quote from SpaceCallahan :
Moved this post to the site issues forum so the tech team can see it
Thank you.
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JoeBlowAZ
10-07-2025 at 07:59 PM.
10-07-2025 at 07:59 PM.
I have had a trigger happen since posting this -- Nord VPN worked. I had the existing trigger shown below:
nordvpn|"nord vpn"
I cannot edit existing deals which is odd, I have to delete and recreate them. I recreated my sam's club as shown below. I'll see if I got the trigger correct next time I run a manual check.
@title (membership club) | sam
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digidad
10-08-2025 at 07:19 AM.
10-08-2025 at 07:19 AM.
Desktop Browser Viewing -

When bookmarked/visiting from main page, alerts would appear as tiles in lower-right of screen.The alert push notifications stopped a week or two ago.

Now, when visiting main page, nothing. But if you click on deal alerts icon on top right-middle screen, they then populate.
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panther0827
10-30-2025 at 05:02 AM.
10-30-2025 at 05:02 AM.
I also noticed that I wasn't receiving alerts lately. I thought maybe there were no deals on DeWalt tools lately (usually several per week). I did a manual search with the same criteria and got lots of hits, so I knew the alert was broken. I edited the alert (didn't change the original search criteria, just the deal level 5+ to FP just to trigger a change) and resaved. It started working again as expected. I edited a few other alerts, but they are less frequent result yielding, so I don't know if it fixed them yet.
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JoeBlowAZ
11-01-2025 at 09:34 PM.
11-01-2025 at 09:34 PM.
I'll agree with the above, it appears to be working again. I don't know if it was recreating searches, or if the page maintainers did something, but I'm getting alerts again.
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dealfinder48
12-02-2025 at 10:47 AM.
12-02-2025 at 10:47 AM.
Same with me. No alerts in email for a long while. Just went away. I redid my alerts and made sure they all listed email. That was a week ago. Still no alerts. There's no point of slickdeals without alerts.
Thanks,
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12-02-2025 at 11:24 AM.
12-02-2025 at 11:24 AM.
Quote from dealfinder48 :
Same with me. No alerts in email for a long while. Just went away. I redid my alerts and made sure they all listed email. That was a week ago. Still no alerts. There's no point of slickdeals without alerts.
Thanks,
This issue should hopefully be fixed for you now.
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akaiclash
12-03-2025 at 01:56 PM.
12-03-2025 at 01:56 PM.
I haven't seen a new deal alert since 11/18. Nothing new in my inbox since 11/18.
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12-07-2025 at 12:30 PM.
12-07-2025 at 12:30 PM.
Quote from akaiclash :
I haven't seen a new deal alert since 11/18. Nothing new in my inbox since 11/18.
It looks like we've sent you hundreds of emails since then. Please try checking your other folders (promotions, updates, spam, trash) to see if you can find them.
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12-10-2025 at 10:38 AM.
12-10-2025 at 10:38 AM.
Quote from emceep :
It looks like we've sent you hundreds of emails since then. Please try checking your other folders (promotions, updates, spam, trash) to see if you can find them.
I have been getting emails but no alerts on the website inbox. Is there an inbox limit?
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12-10-2025 at 11:22 AM.
12-10-2025 at 11:22 AM.
Quote from java568 :
I have been getting emails but no alerts on the website inbox. Is there an inbox limit?
Yes. It looks like you use Classic, so the easiest way to see if you are at the limit is to visit your inbox and then scroll down below your messages and look for this section:

Inbox contains xxx messages.
You have xxx messages stored, of a total xxx allowed.
https://slickdeals.net/forums/private.php

If you want to mass clear out your inbox, you can do that via this page:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/private.php?do=editfolders
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