what hot deal sites do you check?

[Scooby Doo]

Gottadeal is pretty good too.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Slickdeals. I set up deal alerts if I'm looking for something, but don't visit the site itself very often.

 

[KMFJD]

YYZDeals.com for airfare out of Toronto

 

[thebestMAX]

Remember the good old days AT Hot Deals was awesome?

Yep, I almost went broke saving all that money.

 

[marmasatt]

There are others?

 

[Slacker]

Yep, I almost went broke saving all that money.

Value America?

 

[Kaido]

Slickdeals for deals & Camelcamelcamel for pricedrop alerts. That's pretty much it these days. 99% of my purchases are from Amazon because of free 2-day shipping with Prime, competitive pricing, and great CS (including returns).

Although as a working adult, I pretty much have just about everything I want (within reason), and anything missing is on a wishlist just waiting for funding from my budget, hence stuff like Camelcamelcamel.

 

[Childs]

Pricewatch used to be the bomb for comparing the price of of parts. Not sure if it still is.

pcpartpicker.com and nowinstock.net is good for that.

 

[jcwagers]

I tend to use Passwird but I don't check a lot of deal sites most of the time......

 

[rockyct]

Yeah, I should have explained that. My bad. The WMC's, as noted, were the Wounded Monitor Children. This came out of a hot deal about, if I remember correctly, a Hitachi computer monitor that was exceptionally well priced...damned good deal, actually, and many, many jumped on the deal...I forget the online seller that had the deal. Maybe Value America. Maybe someone else.

Anyway, the buyers' credit cards were charged before the monitors shipped....waaay before the monitors shipped. In fact, while everyone that placed an order was charged, the seller didn't have enough stock to supply the demand, but still took orders for said monitor and charged the CC's. It took some legal wrangling and months to get their money back and/or alternative product.

Meantime, OT began to be clogged to the point of being overrun with threads decrying the fraud being perpetuated upon the buyers of said monitor...so Hot Deals was born to spare OT the daily angst of the WMC's.

At least that's my rememberance of the WMC's.

I'm not sure I was there for that but I remember people talking about it. I think someone spawned FatWallet from that because coupon codes weren't allowed to be posted in the forum so everyone was told to go to "chubby billfold" for the code.