Ask HN: where those deal sites find those information?

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I always wonder where the deal site like deals2buy.com find their information. I guess it could come from email list, fatwallet. What else?

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For that site, it would be a combination of the community http://www.deals2buy.com/sdeal.htm, and also the editors of the site finding deals.

Notice that most of the deals are affiliate links. Sometimes they and the vendor have partnership where if they the vendor offers a discount, deals2buy will post an affiliate link (but just because it's an affiliate link, doesn't mean that's the case).

In Canada, red flag deals is one of the top 10 sites in canada. http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/ . Go under the Hot Deals FORUM...and it's community. Go under the DEALS tab on top, and that's the site editors (And some of those are the same posted by the community).

An automated way to do this might not work well. The editors must check and filter out the good deals. There are tons of fake/spam deals online. How to find the real good quality deals? Community is a good way but it takes long time to build a community. Digg way is also a community way.

I'm trying to leverage algorithm to filter out deals.

Scripts to capture the information?

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