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Welcome to DealOfTheDayTracker.com!
This page is intended to be a brief tutorial on:
- What it means to "track"
- Which sites we track
- A User's Guide to using this site
What do we mean we "track" deal-of-the day sites?
Our website continually contacts all the "tracked" websites, checking on all of the following information for each website:
- The current product title
- The current product price and (when available) shipping costs
- Whether or not the product is in stock (and sometimes how much of the item is left)
- How much of a discount off of the regular price (or MSRP) the offer is.
- How long since the item first appeared
- Approximately how much time until a new product is shown
Which sites do we choose to track?
The purpose of this website is to track deal-of-the-day websites. This includes websites devoted to "one a day" selling, where the entire site sells only one item at a time. This also includes regular retailers who have special daily deals on one item that runs for 24 hours.
There are a LOT of variations on this theme, and a comprehensive site of all variations would be very muddled and thus lose it's utility. We have done our best to find a happy medium. Those sites which fall outside what we're trying to show here, we add to the unused website list. That way, you can still access those sites easily, but they won't clutter the main area.
So, without further ado, here's what we generally look for in a site:
- Offers one deal that changes on a daily basis
- Offers a reasonable customer service policy, displaying information about how to contact in case of a problem.
- Ships to the USA
- Has the appropriate information AS TEXT in their website
We currently track over 100 sites, and are constantly looking to add more. Please feel free to contribute anytime by suggesting a new website to track!
A User's Guide to this website
This site has numerous features to help you track the deals you're most interested in as efficiently as possible. Here's a brief guide to the data and features that we currently have:
- Data
activity - this tells you which sites are most active over the few hours. The measure is calculated directly from the number of users who are clicking a site during that time, weighing more recent clicks more than older clicks.
The activity is shown by a green bar inside of a black rectangle. If the rectangle is full, it means that the site next to the bar is the most active at this current time. If the rectangle is halfway full, it means that the site next to the bar is only half as active as the most active site. If you sort by activity, you will see which deals that other people found to be the most interesting!
- site - hopefully self-explanatory. Sites are shown by logos; if you want to find out the name of the site, click the link or put your mouse over the logo--the name will then show a few seconds later in the "tooltip" text.
- title - the title of the product. This is meant to give you a general idea of the type of product being sold, so you can decide whether it's worth your time to click and find out more.
- picture - a picture of the product, taken from the vendor site. Notice at the top of the table that you can pick the sizes of pictures. Also notice that if you put your mouse over the picture, you get a large size photo of the product.
- price - all in US$. When available, we also list the shipping cost. Sometimes it is parsed from the site live (reliable), and sometimes it is estimated from a site's last published shipping policy (less reliable).
- status - information about whether the item is in stock. If the website provides further information, we do our best to report it as well. Some websites report the # of items in stock, others report what % of stock remains, and others give notifications when the stock is very low. We do our best to read those cues and report them to you!
- discount - when available, we list the % price difference between the current offer and the regular price of the same item on that site. If that's not available, then we try to pull the MSRP for the item and show the % price difference between the current offer and MSRP.
- age - All sites change their deals at different times than other sites, and it can be hard to keep track of. Also, soetimes sites post early or late, sometimes offers sell out early and are replaced with other offers, and sometimes sites have special events where new items are shown all day. "Age" will tell you how much time has passed since the item was first posted.
- time remaining - most deal-of-the-day websites tell you in advance when the next deal will be posted. You can use this information to help you be one of the first ones to get a look at a hot deal and buy, buy, buy! Note that the "N/A" marker simply means that the site does NOT consistently post new deals at a specific time, so the time left is unknown, or "not applicable".
- Features
- sorting by retailer, activity, time, status, discount, or age - You can sort by ANY of the columns shown, simply by clicking on the column heading (i.e. the title of each column). You can sort by activity, retailer name, product title, product price, whether or not the item is in stock, discount, age, and how much time is left. You can also use the dropdown at the top-right of the listings table to choose a column to sort by.
