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What is the alternative? Is there an open source version that is community curated?
by Larrikin 2y ago
What is the alternative? Is there an open source version that is community curated?
- LeoPanthera 2y agoSyrup. https://github.com/Abdallah-Alwarawreh/Syrup https://github.com/Abdallah-Alwarawreh/Syrup
- hombre_fatal 2y agoLooks like that's a frontend for https://discountdb.ch/ https://discountdb.ch/ which is basically a https://www.retailmenot.com/ https://www.retailmenot.com/ that nobody seems to use.
- mywittyname 2y agoSigning up for stuff. Pretty much every online retailer will pay you via discount for your email address. I set up a specific junk email address for this purpose and give to every retailer I shop with for their initial x% discount, and I receive coupon codes going forward. From what I can tell, this is the best way to get discounts. Retailers are generous with people they know a lot about. The flip side is that you're going to be a target for their tricks. If you click on a link or add something to your cart, they are going to send you reminders and even more discounts to get you to buy that item. Personally, I've been happy with this setup. I only see the promo spam when I want to. And my email becomes a personalized coupon code search engine that contains much better deals than you could get by using retailmenot or similar sites.
- dceddia 2y agoYou basically also end up needing a burner phone number for these too nowadays. Feels like every one of these I’ve tried in recent months starts with “sign up for 10% off” with an email input, followed by “one more step, give us your phone number!”
- GuinansEyebrows 2y agoI know it’s better to do this sort of thing yourself (or just set up a domain forwarder) but honestly, iCloud’s Hide My Email feature is so nice for this. Of course Apple can still link your spoof addresses to your parent iCloud account, but less-reputable marketing data companies don’t have visibility into that.
- AlwaysRock 2y agoI toss "10OFF" into almost every promo box when I buy something. Works at least 25% of the time. When it does I try "20OFF" and that works as well like 5% of the time.
- noboostforyou 2y agoAnother tip that works especially well on Shopify sites is to add the item to your cart and then abandon the page. You'll usually get an email or text (depending on your Shopify settings) for some discount code to entice you to finish the purchase.
- throwawaysleep 2y agoThis is why I’m keeping it for now. I am still better off than not having it.
- Tadpole9181 2y agoTo be honest? The majority of discount culture is a disgusting trap where retailers inflate default MSRPs and manipulate price histories so they can put big percent signs on the products to bring them down to normal and FOMO/gouge anyone with time constraints. T-shirts and vacuums aren't perishable. Make everything cheaper all the time, adjust the cost to reflect actual supply/demand, and stop the wiggling banners and big signs and calculations every time I want to buy anything. It's like an app for finding out the minimum you have to tip for a waitress to be able to survive. Maybe that's not the solution. But I'm also just a grouch these days...
- johnnyanmac 2y ago>Make everything cheaper all the time, adjust the cost to reflect actual supply/demand, and stop the wiggling banners and big signs and calculations every time I want to buy anything. Ahh, so you're JC Penney: https://www.choicehacking.com/2022/11/24/the-psychological-failure-of-jc-penny/ https://www.choicehacking.com/2022/11/24/the-psychological-f... sadly, in some ways engaged customers want to feel like their efforts pay off in "smarter" deals. and that mind game overcomes any genuine attempts to lay everything up front.
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- wabledoodle 2y agoWe've been working on a product called Ketch AI that does some similar things but hopefully adds more value further up the chain. We track sales from retailers, and use historic sales information to recommend if the sale is good or not (ex some retailers always have XX% off, so you only want to jump on sales that are better than that). In addition, we'll let you sign up for digest alerts, so ideally you get 1 notification a day with all the good sales across all the brands you shop at, rather than hundreds of spammy marketing emails a day. We don't clickjack affiliate links like Honey, and don't have deals with retailers incentivizing us to promote deals that are worse for the consumer. Check us out at https://getketch.ai https://getketch.ai, or start browsing brands at https://members.getketch.ai/brands https://members.getketch.ai/brands to get a feel for the product if you're interested
- zahlman 2y ago> We don't clickjack affiliate links like Honey, and don't have deals with retailers incentivizing us to promote deals that are worse for the consumer. So where is your revenue planned to come from?
- w0m 2y agoYou'd think there would be a market for something OSS here. It would be problematic to keep clean/useful...
- Whatarethese 2y agoRetailmenot.com
- jonas21 2y agoThey inject their affiliate code just like Honey does. Why do you think they open a new tab that loads the retailer's site when you click to show the coupon code?
- redserk 2y agoI want to like RetailMeNot but every time I try it, I very seldom come across functioning coupon codes. I don't understand what incentivizes people to submit bogus codes.
- RandomBacon 2y agoPerhaps they are expired codes, or if it's a link (and not something to copy-and-paste) — affiliate marketing.
- Mistletoe 2y agoIt feels like it has been ruined by greed and grift like RottenTomatoes and generally everything on the internet.
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- hombre_fatal 2y agoThe codes are probably legit. There's just no incentive for anyone to clean up dead codes nor submit fresh ones except for the coupon providers themselves who might see retailmenot as a marketing angle, which seems to be very few.
- FireBeyond 2y agoExcept they often come with “added today”, “verified today” BS. Just like travel sites where you can book some remote roadside run of the mill in Wyoming for mid week, winter next year, and be told “14 people have booked this hotel today, hurry”. No, they haven’t. Or certainly not for that date.
- ebiester 2y agoThe alternative to a company that is hiding real coupon codes and stealing affiliate marketing dollars? Honestly, there's no good answer here because most of the work is manual, not automated, and there are a lot of opportunities for bad actors. It's just a bad model in general.
- phantom784 2y agoI don't think it exists today, but someone could make a crowdsourced extension like SponsorBlock. That also eliminate the concern about hiding promo codes for companies who pay.
- viraptor 2y agoThere are legit communities which already collect that information in structured ways. For example https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ https://www.ozbargain.com.au/ is quite Australia-oriented, but could be turned into an extension bringing up the coupon codes automatically.