I admit it I am a deal nut. I routinely check woot, slickdeals and fatwallet to find the latest and greatest deals. Well now there is a new sheriff in town and its going to save me a ton of time. Dealighted aggregates data from Slickdeals, FatWallet, and Anandtech, and identifies those deals that are the most popular (usually around 125 deals). As soon as a popular deal is identified, the deal appears at the top of Dealighted’s homepage.
They also have a sweet comparison shopping engine. I was testing it out for iPods and also Sony Vaio (which I recently shopped for to replace mine). It has a nice 2.0 style to it and the pictures mixed with text are very easy on the eyes. Its not much different than any of the other comparison engines, but it works.
Obviously their business model is to make money off of affiliate links to the products but I also think they do a good job of integrating Google AdSense at the footer of their page. Now most people would think this is silly because it even goes against Google’s advice of placing the ad above the fold. Again though with AdSense you have a 1 click and gone effect so its hard for a site like this to ever get started if all users do is click on ads when they first find the site. However putting AdSense in the footer of the site gives the site a great “last chance” to make money before a user might otherwise leave the site.
I do have a few complaints though. One deal that looked really hot and was only 4 hours old was already dead when I clicked on it. Thats one of my favorite things about slickdeals; they’re very quick to mark deals as dead. Another problem in my opinion is that a lot of the deals just aren’t that exciting. Like I don’t really care about a deal on deodorant. That might be different for other people though. They would probably do well with some social voting stuff, and the ability to mark deals dead.
If they could integrate an accurate coupon engine into this, that actually gathered active and valid coupons they’d have the million dollar baby.
Disclosure: This is a paid review, if you wish to purchase a paid review for your website or product you can purchase one from ReviewMe. I reject all that I do not feel would be interesting to me or the readers of shoemoney.com
April 9, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Sounds cool…
When did you stop showing the full text of the post in your Feed? It’s a little annoying.
April 9, 2007 at 7:54 pm
damed if you do damned if you dont =( I got a lot of emails asking to just do summary cause it was to much.
April 9, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I just noticed that too. The title gives enough of a summary. Full text or bust.
April 9, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Awesome! I too check slickdeals,woot, fatwallet, hardforum, and a few other places daily
Deals are awesome.
April 9, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Ha! I just came to the site specifically to comment on the change in the feed. Please, please, please bring back full posts.
April 9, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I am a deal and freebie junkie also! I will add it to my sites to check out. I was actually going to work on something that did this but i was to busy doing other stuff.
April 9, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Not a bad review. Shoemoney, it would be really interesting to ask Dealighted to review their experience with RevieMe. I am sure a lot of aspiring bloggers out there would like to know if the paid review paid off for them.
April 9, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Bookmarked for future reference. I frequent those sites for bargains all the time, and having them aggregated is definitely a plus for me.
April 9, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Maybe you should have to different Feeds, one with the Full Post, and one with a Summary?
It’s too inefficient to have to go to my Feed Reader, then have to go to your site just to read the Full Post…
April 9, 2007 at 10:45 pm
That should say “two different”, not “to different”.
April 9, 2007 at 11:12 pm
You posted quite a nice review. if i were you, i would have made comparison between this site and its competitor unless this site is at lost compared to its competitor. I hope this is not the case here. i don’t really know how the review stuff works yet.
April 9, 2007 at 11:14 pm
My only gripe with that type of site is the same as yours, not removing dead deals. Those are the worst. Well not the worst but almost there.
April 9, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Summary are fine for me I come read based on the title.
April 9, 2007 at 11:21 pm
They can be “the worst” when it’s something you really want and then find out it now cost 100x more… not so much of a problem with deoderant and white t-shirts
LOL
April 10, 2007 at 2:04 am
Thanks for the review and the helpful feedback. Regarding dead deals, our code was failing to update thread titles whenever the user modified the title to add the word “Dead”. That has been corrected, so look for “dead” in the title to avoid any expired/dead deals.
April 10, 2007 at 3:19 am
I prefer the full post feed
April 10, 2007 at 3:26 am
Full text pls
April 10, 2007 at 5:53 am
yeah there will always be people complaining no matter what. but I still think the vast majority out there prefers full feeds.
April 10, 2007 at 6:48 am
I once worked with a guy who could have used a buy one get one on deoderant. Could hardly stand next to him.
April 10, 2007 at 7:50 am
There are a lot of good deal sites out there. If you like deal sites like woot (like you mentioned), I run a site that aggregates the deal info from many of them. Check out: for real time one deal a day aggregation.
April 10, 2007 at 8:48 am
This will save a lot of time. Thanks.
Can you talk about deal hunting on one of your next radio shows? I would like to know your criteria for a good deal, etc.
April 10, 2007 at 9:15 am
Thats actually a good resource I’m glad you accepted it.
April 10, 2007 at 9:17 am
please, full text
April 10, 2007 at 9:48 am
This is cool. I just heard about another site that created a coupon search engine: http://www.couponlooker.com. Another good way to find out where the best coupons are without having to go to multiple sites.
April 10, 2007 at 9:56 am
It’s a great site, but I do agree with you that it would benefit from social voting.
April 10, 2007 at 1:11 pm
blah… I read the 2nd sentence of this post and I knew it sounded to “pitchy”. Shoe, you’ve got an awesome blog with a ton of great information on it. I hope you don’t go overboard with these reviews like JohnChow did.
April 10, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I look forward to the day when someone pays me $2500 for a review on my blog. Sigh
April 10, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Summary are fine for me too, it makes it more of an experience to actually visit the blog instead of just getting the text.
April 10, 2007 at 2:28 pm
They pull in google traffic.
April 10, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I think if get a domain like CookMoney, you’re set!!
April 10, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Yeah, why not two feeds? Or those that hate full feeds could practice some self control and just stop reading after a few sentences if they’re not interested.
April 10, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Wow, shameless self promotion in the comments of a review that someone else paid for!
April 10, 2007 at 5:02 pm
that site has potential definitely.. but like shoemoney, i’m only really interested in the expensive stuff. not the small things under $50..
i love a great deal but i don’t mind paying a few extra bucks in a shop for something.. saving $2/300 on something by buying online is what i want
April 10, 2007 at 7:10 pm
hmm looks like a great site i’ll definitely check it out
April 10, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Cool site but i am addicted to slickdeals and thier forums..
April 10, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I’m just happy that sites like these exist, or half the deals that I find I would never find. Btw I have a sony vaio, and it rocks ;0
April 11, 2007 at 12:03 am
i posted a fat article about slick deals here. but i like this service better
April 11, 2007 at 4:35 am
Wow – $2,500! One of the most expensive review I’ve seen yet.
But where else can you get personalised editorial from a site in the Alexa Top 2000 (almost 1500) like this?
I hope it gives the Dealighted guys a boost. Good on ‘em for supporting a blog which gives us so much info.
April 11, 2007 at 8:26 am
what’s wrong with promoting yourself in the footnote of the post?
April 11, 2007 at 8:35 am
That’s funny, you use your domain as your user name and then call out someone for posting their domain. lame.
April 11, 2007 at 9:46 am
I love deals. I checked out the site, but I think I would still rather use slickdeals.net
April 11, 2007 at 4:19 pm
I agree I check the site often enough that a summary is good for me.
April 11, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Another vote for full feed
April 11, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Seems they could use an RSS feed — I didn’t see one.
April 11, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Yet another vote for full feeds here … though I love commenting so I’ll head over anyway
April 11, 2007 at 9:01 pm
I wish they would increase their tag box .. its too bunched up right now, difficult to tag-browse..
April 12, 2007 at 1:08 am
Preview is better for me… It takes sometimes too long to load the page if there are long posts.
April 12, 2007 at 9:17 am
Me too
April 12, 2007 at 12:35 pm
nice site, i will use some of their offers
April 12, 2007 at 12:40 pm
these sites to seem to becoming a dime a dozen… froogle pwns
April 12, 2007 at 1:27 pm
That’s like saying “online retailer sites are becoming a dime a dozen”, or “news sites are a dime a dozen”. Each site offers something different. Dealighted isn’t trying to be “another deals site” where some staffer posts a bunch of editorial deals every day. It aims to aggregate user contributed deals posted to forums and to weed out the junky deals, and I think it does a good job of it. I’m already hooked and check it daily.
April 12, 2007 at 1:53 pm
looks interesting enough
April 13, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Nice deals site, but too many small $$$ items. Would love to see thumbnails next to descriptions on the hot deals section so users could scan quickly.
April 14, 2007 at 11:25 am
Through Dealighted I found a 160 Gb Seagate USB hard drive for $49, no tax and no shipping. Sweet!
April 14, 2007 at 3:07 pm
seems like the money I can make the stingier I get. Nice site!
April 14, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Me too..
April 14, 2007 at 5:40 pm
lol.. funny but spot on..
April 14, 2007 at 6:25 pm
About 3 weeks ago I saw an internal WD 500gb HD for like 100$. Deals are out there and people need to take advantage of them.
April 15, 2007 at 7:17 pm
I really don’t mind either way
April 16, 2007 at 4:50 pm
If you liked Dealighted you may want to take a look at Boddit, Roosster or WiredDeals who do essentially the same thing but in a different way
April 23, 2007 at 4:11 pm
So I realize you were directing us to dealighted (looks promising) but I had no idea about the other sites you mentioned apparently I’m behind the times. I have been getting all my deals from dealmac. Thanks for adding to my list of websites where I can find stuff I don’t really need.
April 29, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I think I have seen this company reviewed on every site possible…somebody is blowing through money! as I type