Slickdeals: Deals & Discounts Reviews

by Rangersin7

I’m not sure what happened in the last week or so, but I get way too many alerts by email or push notifications. I changed it to just emails, and the alerts are out of control. I deleted a lot of my alerts, and they are still sending me way too many about things I’m not interested in. You need to have a break down to how to get the most out of your alerts, what all the ratings mean, i.e. front page, popular, any thread, etc.
I had to turn off all alerts, because it’s just too many. In addition, most of the alerts in my email are coming in twice per alert. What the heck is going on with Slickdeals?

** After the most recent app update, I’m still getting bombarded with emails for things I’m not interested in. Some alerts, instead of double emails, I’m now getting triple emails. This is absurd. I’m ready to delete Slickdeals .

by Σωκρᾰ́της

The last few updates, but especially the most recent one have really shown how Slickdeals, and the site itself, have just become another advertising platform. Most of the deals are lukewarm at best, and you can’t trust the amount of thumbs up at all since they are very often gamed by fake accounts (or you can probably just pay the site to get a bunch on your deal listing). Also there are a ton more ads than ever before and they’re all extremely sensitive to your finger being anywhere near them, if I scroll through the front page for a minute or two I will have at least 2-3 pop open in safari because I let my finger rest on them for longer than 1 nanosecond. Sad to see this site go the way it did, but people aren’t allowed to have useful tools that make our lives easier anymore :(

by Theonlylars

Writing this to add another data point that Slickdeals crashes for me 100% on launch. I deleted and reinstalled and it worked for a bit but now just crashes immediately again after maybe 18h or so. Idk what other info to provide as those are the only reproduction steps. I hope y’all are working on a fix as I used to launch Slickdeals and browse stuff passively 3-4x a day. Now I’m starting to forget about it since I just know it’ll crash and it’s been almost a week. I’m on iOS 14.1, iPhone XS. I don’t do anything weird. Just launch to browse the home screen. Hope this helps and hope you figure it out. Sending good vibes.

by IStealYourSocks

Good app to get and check deals on the fly. Lately, sometimes I would get a white box where texts would be, whether it’s in the description of the deal I’m looking at or in the comments section. I would have to scroll all the way up and refresh the page to make the white boxes disappear and texts reappear. However, even that most of the time doesn’t fix the issue. It’s like Slickdeals doesn’t load some of the texts on the page so it just displays a white box where the texts would be instead. Please address this issue because it’s very annoying.

by T Welc

I’ve used this app for years. It feels like the traffic on Slickdeals has subsided, where the amount of deals have decreased. I used to find great deals on there all the time. Now whenever I go on, almost everything is expired, the deal is not really a deal, or there are no results. Very disappointed. Use to be on here all the time. Could find almost anything.

I’ve also noticed that the front page is almost identical to the popular tab. Front page used to be unique and hard to obtain. It seems now that if it’s not on the front page it’s not a deal that works at all.

by TheDonAndMikeShow

I am never on a PC. I only use Slickdeals . For years I have told at least 100 people how much I love slick deals and how it has save me so much money. Slickdeals is now worthless. I don’t know exactly what they did to make it so unflattering on my iPhone but it now feels or seems like just a bunch of barely visible pictures of product that just look like advertisements and not posts of real, curated from a forum set of wonderful deal finds. I have no issues with alerts or any of that other stuff that might require minor tweaking I just don’t find deals anymore on the new app nothing stands out.

by Maggivisakh

I'm using this app for years and have saved thousands of dollars.. Daily I'll have a chrome tab opened in my work PC for this app to check every once in a while when I get a break..

Slickdeals is really good, but has some issues like.. When trying to upvote or comment on a post, it'll say "sorry you must be logged on to do that".. When Slickdeals is killed and launched again, this gets fixed.. Also most of the times, when trying to create a deal alert with a valid keyword (I was trying with 7 or 8 letter keyword) and got the error "user with this ID is not found : 0 "

I know the dev team watch this space for feedback and continously work on fixing them.. Hence leaving this review with lots of hope.. Anyway I'll continue to use Slickdeals , and will keep recommending to my friends to try as well.. Keep up the good work and bring us more good slick deals.. 👍🏼

by Markbelanger

Updated review: occasionally stutters but now mostly launches and delivers great content.
Old review: Initially Slickdeals failed to launch, so I gave it a few updates in hopes of a fix. Finally uninstalled and reinstalled, it worked once - and now as before - fails to launch, crashing before getting to the main deal / app home screen. I’m on iOS 14.1. I’ll update my review if Slickdeals starts working again but for now I am using the web page on the occasions I would have used Slickdeals . For what it’s worth, the notifications still fire, but Slickdeals won’t load from them either.

by Mbclark8256

Love, love Slickdeals. I save lots of money with Slickdeals. There is a learning curve to it that I am still trying to learn. There is definitely a difference between the website version than Slickdeals . The website is a lot “ busier “ than Slickdeals . It has a live feed that keeps you busy as it changes very quickly. Some of these deals you have to hop on quickly, they may sell out fast. Take some time to read the forum section. Lots of great tips. I’m still learning. I get notifications on my old iPad Air, can’t figure out how to get same notifications on my newer iPad. Maybe the developers can assist ? Again, I LOVE Slickdeals !!!

by Pastorlarry

this app is a community of deal seekers who joined together to stand in unity under a banner which reads: “Refusing Retail Prices to the LAST MAN!”

The this app Community works diligently to find the absolute BEST deals the world has to offer. We do not always see eyebrows to eyebrows, but we are seriously dedicated to paying low prices for whatever happens to strike our fancies at the moment!

The this app app is THE BEST place to find the deals on the products you desire at prices you will not get thrown out of your dwelling for indulging in! With personalising features, deal alerts, and diverse opinions from other seekers...quite simply, it is digital perfection!

Come be a part of the Price Revolution with a purpose. Add your distinctiveness to our own today. this app Savings: Resistance is Futile. Quit reading the reviews and start saving today! See ya in the forums!

by Jimschoice

Had an issue where the deals were jumping back to the top when scrolling, but Dev responded quickly ash’s patched the issue. I enjoy having Slickdeals and find lots of deals on things. Guess where I find the deals on this iPhone, or my Galaxy Watch, or just about half the stuff in my house!
I don’t like the personalized deals at all. I loved SD because I find stuff I didn’t know I needed, or gift ideas for family. If the deals are “personalized”, then how will I find new and different deals. I would much rather just see everything!

by JLad10687

UPDATE: The developer got back to me, apparently you get front page deal alerts by default. I was looking at the alerts I set up to turn them off but you have to turn them off in your settings.

Not sure what's going on with this. I got Slickdeals so I could be alerted to deals for a few specific things. I set up alerts for those items but I get bombarded with alerts all day for random things. It's so intrusive and it seems to be either all alerts or none. I'm choosing none and uninstalling Slickdeals .

Otherwise works great as an alternative to the site but what's the point if the alerts don't work, I'll just check the site when I can.

by Brian17834

One of my coworkers first showed me Slick Deals in 2002. I’ve always been a bargain hunter but SD brought me up to the next level. My favorite aspect of SD are the comments, positive and sometimes very negative regarding a deal. What might initially catch my eye as a great deal, at times comes crashing down with a comment from the peanut gallery. Mostly, though, the deal is a good one, as are the comments. Spent a ton of moola and also saved a lot! Great site and great group of SD’ers.

by CurtisDFogle

At its current state, Slickdeals is nearly unusable. Every couple seconds of scrolling, you will get an ad pop up between your deal list. This would be acceptable if that was it. But each time you get one of these ads (very frequently), your scrolling position on the deal list will be moved seemingly at random. The worst of it is that it can send you all the way back to the top of the page (good luck reaching where you were just at with the bombardment of ads on your way back down the list). If you’re looking for an incredibly frustrating experience, then this is Slickdeals for you in its current state.

by T_W__

Update: developers got back to me. I would have been happy to help debug, but I already removed and reinstalled Slickdeals and it’s working now. Thanks though.

iPhone X, iOS 11.2.1. Displays the splash screen and just sits until it times out and Slickdeals seems to relinquish focus. It still shows in the application switcher, but repeats the timeout/relinquish action if it is selected. I can use the web site while this happens so I think my connectivity and credentials are ok. Thanks.

by Am110901

If you wanna save money on some items, and your ok with being patient, then use slick deals. That simple. No fees, no subscription, nothing stupid just make an account within a minute and start looking for a deal of an item you might want. Super simple to navigate and again there’s no reason not to use it.

Edit: I have found a small issue with this. When I’m scrolling through the featured tab it will constantly tell me “you’ve reached the end of the deals thread!” In the middle of the screen. It’s a little annoying but not a big issue. Just wanted to let you know so you can fix it.

by Kmichalec

Update: Devs listened to my bug complaint and fixed the issue i mentioned below. Slickdeals is once again usable and reliable, and it’s one of the only BF apps that allow me to set up my list for BF on my iPad, and have that list sync up with Slickdeals on my phone without having to re-enter the list. Updated review to 5 stars now! Great job!

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Once you get into an add scan in the BF section, the back arrow doesn’t work to get back the main BF page. You need to exit the entire BF section completely and come back in. Also, if you click down to an item from an ad, to add it to your list, you can’t exit back to the ad scan via the back arrow there too. All the back arrows are broken in the BF section. Please fix this ASAP, otherwise, this section of Slickdeals is useless.

Response: No. Back arrows and links stop working. The only way to correct it is to kill Slickdeals from memory, and restart it. When you do that, it works one time, but when you try a second time, it stops working again.

by Virtualshift

Update: The next morning after leaving a one star review about the Trump ads, they took them all down and replacing with normal Google ads. Other than that, I can only say that I really enjoy using Slickdeals and I’m glad that they listen to the customers.

All of a sudden I am seeing a ton of Ads promoting Donald Trump, and ads that are anti-Joe Biden. If you’re taking money from Donald Trump, then I want nothing to do with you. That man is a lying racial tyrant who deserves to be investigated for all the crimes he has committed.

by Ana Pesina

Okay so basically my boyfriend owns a pretty old Mustang GT, and the ignition coils are starting to go out and it’s causing the car to die at random times since it’s a manual. WELL BASICALLY, he wanted to purchase new coils for $200 from Autozone and right now that’s a pretty big hit for us seeing as we’re just two teenagers. But this morning I got a notification from this app saying there was a 20% coupon from Autozone off of a $100 or more purchase. So thank heavens I got Slickdeals because my boyfriend would have had to wait another week for his coils if it weren’t for the coupon! (:

by GdsmithTX

I have used the this app app for a couple of years and it was perfectly fine on my iPad. But the May 3, 2019 update completely broke it. It is so incredibly slow, and so incredibly unresponsive, that it is absolutely unusable. Even trying to use the apps feedback feature took 7 to 10 minutes to get to the field to type in your feedback, and then Each letter that you typed would take a minimum of 30 seconds to appear. Hopefully, they’ll fix with a later update What they broke with this one.

by Sandlot1959

A few weeks ago I bought a treadmill through Slickdeals because it was offering $75 cash back if purchased online through Sears (1500 bucks) For two or three days afterwards it showed the $75 was pending in my this app account but then by a week later the money wasn’t showing up and the pending was gone as well. Contacted customer service and they said they had no record of it. Finally gave up when it was obvious they were not going to try to find out what the problem was. It was the MAIN reason I bought the treadmill where I did. Very dissatisfied.

by BrianFromCali

Slickdeals is quick to open a browser window and then Slickdeals store if your finger comes anywhere close to an ad. Just scrolling can lead to inadvertently touching the edge of an ad space that causes two other apps to open. Don’t have any other apps that open ads as much as this one.

Also mentioned this before, but it seems like there is little to no difference between the front page deals and popular deals. Sometimes the feeds are almost identical.

For some reason there’s a helpful/not helpful rating on every comment and no comment ever seems to be helpful enough for the average slickdealer unless you’re tipping them off on how to get something for free. People downvote friendly input and upvote snide remarks. Just look at any post in Slickdeals and you’ll see.

by ARGinICT

I love this app and have used them for years, but for the last 2-3 weeks, Slickdeals just doesn’t work on my iPad pro. It takes 30 seconds to load, and when it does, you can barely scroll for about 20 seconds and then freezes to the point I have to force close and reopen. Works great on my iPhone, and I’m still getting notifications on my iPads, I just can’t open Slickdeals reliably. I’ve uninstalled and re-downloaded but no luck... Hoping for an update soon to fix!

by PunkRockJumpKick

Slick deals is great, there are a couple improvements I would make
1) sharing - if you share a deal, especially via sms, it just sends a link, without a preview or title. Either or both would be very helpful to improving the traffic

2). Expires deal - if you are searching for something, current and expired deals pop up. This is inefficient for searching for a deal. It should default to only current deals and allow you to unhide the expired deals if you want to. There could be 150 deals that pop up, but the majority could be expired.

All for all apps, there should be a feedback link that is ready to connect you to product improvement link. I think the process would allow for much higher feedback

by Gadget1117

If you are the type of person who chooses to work extra vs spend time reading ads or trying to remember digital (i.e. Web, Radio or TV) then SD is for you! This awesome app gives me the ability to have it sit patiently and watch for the deals on products I want. Plus rather than scour the Web World for a good price - a 5-minute session via SD virtually guarantees my overpaying days are behind me. Awesome - straightforward App that 'almost can't - not save anyone money'.

by Hkynrd

Slickdeals automatically find the best deals on the Internet and in stores and puts them all in one place for you. It also gives you the option to get alerts for certain keywords for company names or certain types of products. There is a writing system so you know whether or not the deal and a good deal still or somethings posted that it is expired or wrong. I’ve save so much money using Slickdeals.

by Dipen26

I love Slickdeals but lately some of the ads getting annoying particularly TIDAL. Even if I don’t touch banner, it just opens and redirect to App Store. I understand that there are incentives for developers, but start paid app and costumers will have option to buy without ads. I have been using app from many years but it wasn’t like this before. Fix it or bring pro version without ads. Thank you

by MrAckstar

In the latest version, opening the notification opens the deal but doesn’t show any comments or ratings. After half a minute, Slickdeals shows an error.
Also every other time I open Slickdeals I need to relogin. Even when I open from a notification.

Update: the devs got back to me and fixed this issue in the update

by Lamqduong

App not working for the last week even after I downloaded the update today. I emailed the support team and they got back to me with in an hour and got me up and running again able access Slickdeals . That’s amazing service especially nowadays when all you have our chat it’s responding to your questions. Thanks SLICKEALS!