Slickdeals Alternatives: 9 Deal Sites Compared

Every site here uses one of four methods. Shoppers vote (Slickdeals, Reddit). Paid editors choose (DealNews, Brad's Deals, DealsOfAmerica, TechBargains, 9to5Toys, and Dealmoon, which mixes in user submissions). The seller picks its own deals (Woot). Or software scores offers and shows the few that clear a bar (Gazoobie, which is our site).

No method is honest by default. Each one has a different place where money can get in, and the useful thing is knowing where.

Almost every site on this list earns an affiliate commission when you buy through its links. Gazoobie does too. That is the normal business model, and I would not rule a site out for it. What differs is how plainly each one explains paid placement.

For reference, Slickdeals says "Front Page is earned, not bought," and that merchants can submit deals for review by its Deal Specialists: "It's never pay-to-play." Its homepage also says: "We may get paid by brands for deals, including promoted items."

DealNews started in 1997 with two friends sharing deals, and it still runs on staff: "We have a staff of writers who search the Internet daily."

The detail I like is its Editors' Choice rule. A deal gets that label only when at least two thirds of DealNews editors agree. It also states: "We never list a higher price from another store just because it is an advertiser." That is the most specific quality standard on this list.

It says it is reader-supported and may earn commissions on purchases. The pages I read do not explain how sponsored placement works, if it exists.

Best for: people who want an editor to find the low price and do not want to read comments.

Brad's Deals has run since 2001 and says "there's a real-life human behind every post." Brad Wilson founded it and is its CEO, and the company is based in Chicago.

Its disclosure is the most direct I found: "Compensation received by us may impact how, where, or in what order products appear." I would rather read that sentence than guess at it. It tells you the order of the page is partly a business decision, so look past the top few deals.

Best for: casual shoppers who want one broad daily list across categories.

DealsOfAmerica calls itself a "handpicked bargains site" and says it finds the "best 250 deals every day." The footer credits Ziff Davis, the media company that also owns TechBargains, next on this list. It discloses that it may earn an affiliate commission when you buy through its links.

Best for: volume. Two hundred fifty deals a day is the point, and also the catch.

Ziff Davis has owned TechBargains since 2013. Its staff, whom it calls BargainMeisters, say: "We use purchasing data to determine the best possible times to shop."

Its about page has not kept up. The staff bios refer to 2014 through 2016. The deal feed itself was current when I checked.

Best for: laptop, monitor, and storage buyers who want a tech-only list.

9to5Toys launched in 2011 as part of Seth Weintraub's 9to5 sites, which he owns through 925, LLC. Its stated aim is to be "first to post" notable price drops, and it also carries deals from partners such as StackSocial. It uses software that adds affiliate tags to outside links, and it says sponsored posts are always clearly marked.

Best for: Apple buyers, and anyone who wants gadget news mixed in with the deals.

Woot belongs here because people use it like a deal site. It is a retailer: "Products on Woot.com are sold by Woot.com LLC." It started in 2004 selling one product a day, Amazon bought it in 2010, and it now runs daily deals across seven categories.

Read its FAQ before you trust a percentage off. Woot says its reference price comes from its vendor or from Amazon's strike-through price, "which may not be the prevailing market price or regular retail price." That is Woot's own wording, and it is more candid than most stores manage. Treat the percentage off as Woot's claim, and check whether the discount is a good price.

Best for: impulse buys. Compare the price at one other store before you count the savings.

If you like Slickdeals because other shoppers vet the deals, r/buildapcsales is the closest match, but only for PC parts. Members post and vote, and the rules are strict: US deals only, at least 10 items in stock, nothing overpriced, and "Don't post or comment affiliate codes or referral links." Reddit showed about 193,000 weekly active users there on September 23.

The general r/deals is a different story. It had about eight posts between August 6 and September 21, and its rules allow associate links. I would skip it.

Best for: PC builders.

Dealmoon says its core audience is "Chinese Millennials and Gen-Zers," and its homepage leans on beauty and fashion. It says non-sponsored posts come from user submissions or its own team, "not by payments," and that paid posts are labeled "Sponsored" or "AD." Many of its store links are affiliate links through networks such as Rakuten and CJ.

Best for: Chinese-speaking shoppers, and anyone hunting beauty and fashion sales.

This is our site, so weigh this section with that in mind.

Gazoobie has no voters and no staff of deal writers. It pulls offers from affiliate feeds, scores them with price math and AI, and shows only the ones that clear a bar. As of September 21, 2026, it had pulled 678,075 offers and scored 83,734 of them. Of those, 3,134 cleared, which is 3.7%. Each one that clears is tagged with the kind of shopper it suits, one of 12 shopper types, and the weekly email is sorted the same way.

Here is what it cannot do, in the words of our own method page: "Neither a score nor a Gazoobie Pick badge proves that a price beats other shops, that a coupon works at checkout, or that every offer in our database has been reviewed." Our price record started on August 7, 2026, so we do not claim lowest-ever prices.

Best for: people who want a short list and no forum. If you want other shoppers' opinions on a deal, Slickdeals and Reddit do that better.

Start with why you use Slickdeals.

If it is the crowd, the only real match here is Reddit, and only for PC parts. If it is the Frontpage, DealNews is the closest swap. For tech, pick TechBargains or 9to5Toys. If you want the fewest deals to read, that is the job we built Gazoobie for.

One more thing to know. In January 2026, Ziff Davis grouped DealsOfAmerica and TechBargains with RetailMeNot, Offers.com and BlackFriday.com into one unit it calls the RetailMeNot Group. Two names on a list of alternatives are not always two separate opinions.