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The deepest real markdowns right now

By Mike TarantinoSeptember 20, 20264 min read

This page is a list of the biggest genuine markdowns Gazoobie can see, and it is rebuilt every single time you load it. Nothing on it was written down in advance, which is the only way a page like this can still be true next week.

Before the list, it is worth knowing what we took out of it. The filtering is most of the value here, and it is the part every other "biggest discounts" page skips.

The biggest number on the page is usually the worst one

Sort any large catalogue by discount percentage and the top of the list fills with junk. Not because retailers are lying, but because a percentage is arithmetic on two numbers, and only one of them is real.

The sale price is real. Somebody will take that money today. The other number, the one crossed out, is whatever the seller decided to put there. When a feed reports 97% off, the likeliest explanations are a gift-with-purchase counted as a full-price item, a data error, or a placeholder nobody updated. An actual 97% markdown is the rarest of those.

So a list ordered purely by discount is a list ordered by how wrong the crossed-out number is. That is a real pattern, and it is the opposite of what the shopper wanted.

What we throw out before the list

Four cuts, and every one of them removes offers that would otherwise sit at the top.

Anything under 30% off does not count as a markdown here. That is not a judgement about whether 20% off is worth having. It is that on a page about the deepest cuts, a fifth off is not one.

Anything at 95% off or above comes out too, and this is the cut that surprises people. On a site that exists to say whether a discount is real, leading with a fake one is the worst mistake available. We would rather lose a genuine 96% markdown than publish nine artifacts.

Offers our scoring marks as bottom-tier come out, and so does anything whose end date has already passed. A list of expired deals is worse than no list, and it is the failure that quietly ruins most round-up pages a week after they publish.

Then there is a cap on how many offers any single retailer may contribute. This one is not about quality at all. Two stores between them hold roughly 2,900 of the marked-down rows we track, so an uncapped list of the biggest discounts is one clearance rack photographed nine times. The cap is what makes it a list rather than a catalogue page.

What a big markdown still cannot tell you

Even after all of that, a percentage is a claim about a price in the past. We can tell you the seller is asking much less than they say they used to. We cannot always tell you they ever charged the higher number.

Gazoobie started recording daily prices on 7 August 2026. That record is deep enough to show a price moving. It is nowhere near deep enough to tell you whether today is the lowest this item has ever been, so we do not say that, here or anywhere.

This is also why the list below is not ranked by how good a buy something is. It is ranked by how deep the cut is, which is a different question with a different answer. The board at /real-deals is where we answer the first one.

How to use the list

Treat a deep markdown as a reason to look, never as a reason to buy. The percentage tells you the seller is motivated. It tells you nothing about whether the thing is any good or whether you want it.

The two questions worth asking on anything below: would I want this at the sale price if no discount were mentioned at all, and can I find the same item elsewhere to compare. If the answer to the first is no, the size of the markdown is irrelevant.

And if the list is short today, that is the system working. We do not pad it.

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Questions people ask

How often does this list change?

Every time the page loads. It is a live query against the board, not a list written into the article, so an offer that expired an hour ago is already gone. That is the whole reason this page is built the way it is.

Why do you cut discounts of 95% and above?

Because at that depth the crossed-out price is usually the thing that is wrong, not the sale price. A gift-with-purchase counted as a full-price item, a feed error, or a placeholder all produce enormous percentages. We would rather lose a real one than lead with a fake one on a site about telling the difference.

Is the deepest markdown the best deal?

Usually not. Depth of cut and quality of buy are different questions. This page answers the first one. The Real Deals board answers the second, and only about 3 in 100 scored offers clear that bar.

Do you get paid to include a deal here?

No. Nothing on this page can be bought, and the list is not touched by hand. It is the live board filtered by the rules stated above. We earn affiliate commission when you buy through a link, and that has never moved a deal up, softened a verdict or buried a warning.

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