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SlickDeals.net never accepts payment to give companies placement as a deal. However, SlickDeals.net does make revenue through third party banner advertisements.
The SlickDeals Frontpage has a list format of the highlighted deals and includes a brief description of what it is and where it can be purchased. Popular Hot Topics, Up and Coming Topics, and Featured Coupons are on the right hand side of the Frontpage. The Frontpage easily shows the user where they can log in or create an account, access forums, and search for more deals and bargains that aren't immediately listed on the home page.
It can be overwhelming to first-time users because of how much content there is when he or she first reaches the website. However, the best deals are hand-picked by SlickDeals employees and placed on the front page of the website.
SlickDeals.net offers the SlickDeal Commitment where the website offers five core promises to its users.
There are several different types of deals that can be found on SlickDeals. These include Frontpage Slickdeals, Hot Topics, Hot Deals, Local Deals, Freebies, Coupons, Contests & Sweepstakes, and Drugstore B&M Deals.
SlickDeals does not use automated scripts to post its deals, and it relies on user activity and user-generated content, but a user doesn't have to be a member of the community to find the deals. They do not give any compensation for the deals posted, but users join in order to be part of helping people find the most accurate bargains online. Without an account, visitors to SlickDeals can still access all of the deals on SlickDeals, but they cannot leave feedback on deals or respond to threads on the forum. Registration is free and simple, involving just the username, password, email address, and a simple Captcha. Registration gives access to deal alerts, thread subscriptions, giveaways, wishlists/favorites, and other specials. One can also subscribe to a SlickDeals newsletter that will give you updates on the latest activity on the website.
SlickDeals is constantly being updated by other users, so there are always fresh deals and bargains to look out for. The active community quickly catches errors or expirations of posted deals, keeping it up-to-date. Users can gain positive or negative reputation based on a voting system, giving their comments or posted bargains a certain reliability meter in the amount of reputation they have and encouraging users to join and make an account in order to build their reputation or post count. The forums also have levels that you can gain from the amount of posts you make and the amount of reputation you gain. Users can rate to give feedback beyond just comments, which boosts posts to the front page of SlickDeals. Their Hot Deals forum gets thousands of comments on the latest and best bargains found online and offline, and because of this, a deal you find will most likely have feedback on the forum on whether it’s a good deal or not.
To further build community life, SlickDeals has a popular Lounge forum where users can discuss nearly any topic, resulting in a variety of discussions.
To maintain the policies on the site, warning points are issued to users when they break the rules. The number of points awarded is dependent on the seriousness of the infraction. When users reaches ten points, they are banned from the forum for seven days. The ban can then become permanent for very serious or multiple infractions.
SlickDeals.net never accepts payment to give companies placement as a deal. However, SlickDeals.net does make revenue through third party banner advertisements.
The SlickDeals Frontpage has a list format of the highlighted deals and includes a brief description of what it is and where it can be purchased. Popular Hot Topics, Up and Coming Topics, and Featured Coupons are on the right hand side of the Frontpage. The Frontpage easily shows the user where they can log in or create an account, access forums, and search for more deals and bargains that aren't immediately listed on the home page.
It can be overwhelming to first-time users because of how much content there is when he or she first reaches the website. However, the best deals are hand-picked by SlickDeals employees and placed on the front page of the website.
SlickDeals.net offers the SlickDeal Commitment where the website offers five core promises to its users.
There are several different types of deals that can be found on SlickDeals. These include Frontpage Slickdeals, Hot Topics, Hot Deals, Local Deals, Freebies, Coupons, Contests & Sweepstakes, and Drugstore B&M Deals.
SlickDeals does not use automated scripts to post its deals, and it relies on user activity and user-generated content, but a user doesn't have to be a member of the community to find the deals. They do not give any compensation for the deals posted, but users join in order to be part of helping people find the most accurate bargains online. Without an account, visitors to SlickDeals can still access all of the deals on SlickDeals, but they cannot leave feedback on deals or respond to threads on the forum. Registration is free and simple, involving just the username, password, email address, and a simple Captcha. Registration gives access to deal alerts, thread subscriptions, giveaways, wishlists/favorites, and other specials. One can also subscribe to a SlickDeals newsletter that will give you updates on the latest activity on the website.
SlickDeals is constantly being updated by other users, so there are always fresh deals and bargains to look out for. The active community quickly catches errors or expirations of posted deals, keeping it up-to-date. Users can gain positive or negative reputation based on a voting system, giving their comments or posted bargains a certain reliability meter in the amount of reputation they have and encouraging users to join and make an account in order to build their reputation or post count. The forums also have levels that you can gain from the amount of posts you make and the amount of reputation you gain. Users can rate to give feedback beyond just comments, which boosts posts to the front page of SlickDeals. Their Hot Deals forum gets thousands of comments on the latest and best bargains found online and offline, and because of this, a deal you find will most likely have feedback on the forum on whether it’s a good deal or not.
To further build community life, SlickDeals has a popular Lounge forum where users can discuss nearly any topic, resulting in a variety of discussions.
To maintain the policies on the site, warning points are issued to users when they break the rules. The number of points awarded is dependent on the seriousness of the infraction. When users reaches ten points, they are banned from the forum for seven days. The ban can then become permanent for very serious or multiple infractions.
