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THREAD EXPIRATION BY DATE Feature Badly Needed
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Hello SD Gurus and Mucky Mucks!
I've always wondered why SD doesn't add a 'deal expiration' date for the OP to select so a deal can auto expire for a known 'finite' deal. ie, One Day Deals at so many different merchants, weekly ad sales from Walgreens, CVS, Staples, Target, etc.
I can't tell you how many expired by date deals still remain active in the HD forum and unless someone mod alerts it, they just remain there for people to find, thinking they can partake of the deal because its active just to find the digital coupon is gone, the price went up or there's no rewards type offer on the product even though the deal post advertises it.
Would be a win-win-win for the forums, OP can add from the get-go, less work for the mods, less disappointed shoppers and less board clutter from bumped threads where people are bitching they can't replicate the deal.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! S A D
I've always wondered why SD doesn't add a 'deal expiration' date for the OP to select so a deal can auto expire for a known 'finite' deal. ie, One Day Deals at so many different merchants, weekly ad sales from Walgreens, CVS, Staples, Target, etc.
I can't tell you how many expired by date deals still remain active in the HD forum and unless someone mod alerts it, they just remain there for people to find, thinking they can partake of the deal because its active just to find the digital coupon is gone, the price went up or there's no rewards type offer on the product even though the deal post advertises it.
Would be a win-win-win for the forums, OP can add from the get-go, less work for the mods, less disappointed shoppers and less board clutter from bumped threads where people are bitching they can't replicate the deal.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! S A D
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I've always wondered why SD doesn't add a 'deal expiration' date for the OP to select so a deal can auto expire for a known 'finite' deal. ie, One Day Deals at so many different merchants, weekly ad sales from Walgreens, CVS, Staples, Target, etc.
I can't tell you how many expired by date deals still remain active in the HD forum and unless someone mod alerts it, they just remain there for people to find, thinking they can partake of the deal because its active just to find the digital coupon is gone, the price went up or there's no rewards type offer on the product even though the deal post advertises it.
Would be a win-win-win for the forums, OP can add from the get-go, less work for the mods, less disappointed shoppers and less board clutter from bumped threads where people are bitching they can't replicate the deal.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! S A D
Hi SUCHaDEAL!
In a perfect world, I don't disagree with your premise. But I am not the one who would decide on this feature.
I wanted to offer a different perspective, as a deal poster who refuses to put expiration dates in the OP.
1. Deals can (and do) die at any time. Amazon sometimes puts countdown clocks on things, but the item goes out of stock before that time is up.
2. If someone sees an expiration date, they might say "I have time to buy that later" and when they return to find it dead, they might feel betrayed. I am still bitter about a Jurassic Park digital deal I circled back on, only to find it dead. I thought when I first saw it, "how can something digital go out of stock" (silly me)
3. Merchants extend all the time. So a buyer who saw an expiration date might not bother to check back if they assumed it was dead anyway.
For daily deal sites, your idea sounds good. But I have seen them extend as well. It might not be part of the "daily sale" any more, but they will move it out of that, and just leave the price as it was the day before. Or like with Amazon, the seller will remove the coupon and just keep a straight price.
In a perfect world, I don't disagree with your premise. But I am not the one who would decide on this feature.
I wanted to offer a different perspective, as a deal poster who refuses to put expiration dates in the OP.
1. Deals can (and do) die at any time. Amazon sometimes puts countdown clocks on things, but the item goes out of stock before that time is up.
2. If someone sees an expiration date, they might say "I have time to buy that later" and when they return to find it dead, they might feel betrayed. I am still bitter about a Jurassic Park digital deal I circled back on, only to find it dead. I thought when I first saw it, "how can something digital go out of stock" (silly me)
3. Merchants extend all the time. So a buyer who saw an expiration date might not bother to check back if they assumed it was dead anyway.
For daily deal sites, your idea sounds good. But I have seen them extend as well. It might not be part of the "daily sale" any more, but they will move it out of that, and just leave the price as it was the day before. Or like with Amazon, the seller will remove the coupon and just keep a straight price.
Nothing is going to be perfect, but having used deal expiration dates when it was a given about the deal on another deal site, they were very helpful.
For most examples you cite, the reverse is often also true. One day deal ends, 48 hours later someone is posting 'the price is $10 higher, can't replicate"
But I do think these are examples of deals where this feature would be ideal:
One or limited day freebie or highly discounted offers (ie National Coffee Day, 50c off a gallon with Prime 7/2-5, Walgreens ad 7/5-11, 40% off with Kohls Coupon TODAY ONLY,
As for changes mid-stream, if a deal dies early, can still be flagged as dead to a mod team. If a deal is extended the op can always modify the date if before it expired, mod alert it to be reinstated or simply share it again. Happens all the time as it is. Deal get marked expired, either gets mod alerted that it isn't dead (or back in stock) or another poster starts a new thread. I think Front Page deals can be excluded from this to give the FP team more control over the posts, but there too, follow up needs to be done. I see one day deals needing to be alerted 2 days later that they are dead.
I do think it's worth a shot for the very high volume posters on SD, staff and non-staff at the very least.