A deal is only a candidate until its price has been confirmed on the retailer's own page. Here is the path every deal takes before you see it.
We watch retailer sale and clearance pages, retailer feeds, public deal sources and social channels for discounts that look worth a closer look. Software and AI tools help us sort through volume, but nothing found at this stage is published.
We open the product page on the retailer's own website and read the current price, the retailer-listed reference price (if any), availability, and who the seller is. For marketplaces like Walmart we only accept items shipped and sold by the retailer itself, because third-party sellers often list inflated "was" prices.
If the retailer shows a reference price, we keep its wording (list price, regular price, "was") and only show a crossed-out price when the retailer itself lists it. If only the current price can be confirmed, we show the current price and no discount percentage. We do not fill in missing numbers.
Savings and discount percentage are calculated by code from the two verified prices — never typed in by hand and never estimated by an AI model:
If the math does not match what a third-party source claimed, the source is wrong and we use our number or skip the deal.
Every deal card shows "Price checked" with the date we confirmed it. Cards link to the retailer's product page, either directly or through an affiliate link that lands on the same product.
Deals expire automatically after a set number of days, or earlier when a promotion has a known end date. When we learn a price has gone up or an item is sold out, the deal is removed or marked as ended — we do not leave an old sale price looking active.
Spotted a price that no longer matches? Report it here and we will fix or remove the deal quickly.
