Consumerist Shopping Event: You Pick The Deals
We've partnered with Jellyfish's Smack Deal of the Day to offer our readers a chance at up to 80% off on products of their choosing.
Jellyfish's Smack Deal of the Day is a reverse auction: as time passes, price drops. The game is to buy the product at the lowest price possible. Towards the end it can get as low as 80% off. The trick is that you don't know how many units are in stock, so if you wait too long... you lose out. Side games and real-time chat make for a gay old time.
At checkout, players pay full price, but receive the cash back via check or Paypal within 60 days.
Here's where you come in. What would you like to get a smackdeal on?
We'll take your suggestions and poll the results. The top picks get smackdealed at on Monday, March 5th at 3pm.
Let us know your dream products in the comments or tips at consumerist dot com.
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Smack shopping event? It's nice to see Consumerist diversifying to the underserved heroine market.
I am currently in the market for a Mistubishi HD1000U front projector....so I'd love a deal on that.
Or some Nazi shirts.
How is this different than the ever-dreaded rebate?
As great of a deal as this sounds, my suspicious nature is poking its head up. The part about them keeping the difference between what I pay and the price when I paid for 60 days is more than a little sketchy. I assume Consumerist has checked this company out completely, but it still makes my spider sense tingle.
I already know about this site but I don't play along. Sorry, but you don't get a free loan of my money for 60 days.
I'm not interested in playing a game to get the best price. Yes, I'll comparison shop, but I'm not going to spend half my day at some website hoping the price will go down on some gizmo or thing I probably don't need anyway. My time is worth more than I can save. Er... but ask me how I really feel.. and um.. ya'll have fun!
The time delay has to do with waiting for the merchant's return policy to expire. They don't want people getting it for a deal, then returning it for full price.
The difference between this and a rebate is that you'll actually get it, there's no breakage designed in the system.
Tim writes:
"How about:
-Wii
-XBox 360
-Some kind of small LCD tv
Sounds like fun!"
So this is only for Consumerist readers? I'm confused how this is different from anything else they do daily other than the fact that we get to vote for the product.
Anyway, the best thing I have seen on there is the Series 3 Tivo. The Tivo costs way too much as it is but people would like to have one.
Sony Ericcson k790a
Tivo Series 3
Zune/Ipod/Creative Labs mp3 player
Roomba
Headphones (quality noise cancelling ones, Bose/Sure/Sennheiser)
Wii!!!!!!!!
Some things I've had my eye on:
Photo printer that is also a flatbad all-in-one (scan/copy/print)
Decent digital camera (at least 6 MP and 4x optical zoom)
I like the PayPal-rebate idea, and Ben's explanation sounds reasonable to me. If there are actual deals to be had it will be worth it.
Yeah I'm not kosher on this type purchasing, seems scammy. I've pretty much stopped with rebates too.
NO Roombas, Scubbas, Dirt Dogs, or whatever they come out with next. I'm sick of seeing them every 3 days on Woot.
The Roomba suggestion was purely to see how cheap it possibly can get...try to cheat the system a little bit...
Wii, iPod. =)
The Roomba suggestion was purely to see how cheap it possibly can get...try to cheat the system a little bit...
Hmm...good point. I'll buy one for $20.
Roomba--sign me up for a $20 one!
Wii
XBox 360
It's not a scam, I've gotten back over $1500.
How can this work? How does Jellyfish manage to offer these discounts? Do they just make up for it by overcharging the first buyers?
200 - 300 GB external hard drive.
Im with Coraspartan!
Get a vacume that will do my chores for me and something for me to play while it does them!
Most of the time, deals don't go that low. People are either impatient or paranoid. Slickdeals and fatwallet is the way to go for normal stuff. Let's try some hard-to-find stuff like:
- Motorola MING A1200
- Motorola ROKR E6 (China Version)
- LG KE970
- Samsung X830
- Nokia 7280
- Sony Vaio VX
- Kohjinsha SA1
- Nokia N800 (suggested before)
Vista? I kid, I kid!!!!
Maybe some software?
Office, Money, Quicken, TurboTax, etc? I dunno, but the idea sounds cool.