Comments on: How do they make money? http://probargainhunter.com/2006/09/30/how-do-they-make-money/ News, Tips and Resources for Online Bargain Hunters Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:58:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: probargainhunter http://probargainhunter.com/2006/09/30/how-do-they-make-money/#comment-20 probargainhunter Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:10:29 +0000 http://probargainhunter.com/2006/09/30/how-do-they-make-money/#comment-20 Dealnews live off of affiliate commission they get from the merchants. Basically whenever you click on a link at their web site that link has an ID that the merchant uses to identify dealnews as the source. Dealsnews also has some direct advertising on their web site which is probably a supplementary revenue for them. As far as I know they don't offer any monetary incentive to their users. All deals they have are posted by stuff with occasional tips from the users (all of which are moderated). This is the legacy model that mainly fits the mainstream shopper. I can see a trend among early adopters to shift to models where users have more say as to choosing the best deal and to those that provide some monetary incentives to shoppers. Dealnews live off of affiliate commission they get from the merchants. Basically whenever you click on a link at their web site that link has an ID that the merchant uses to identify dealnews as the source. Dealsnews also has some direct advertising on their web site which is probably a supplementary revenue for them.

As far as I know they don’t offer any monetary incentive to their users. All deals they have are posted by stuff with occasional tips from the users (all of which are moderated). This is the legacy model that mainly fits the mainstream shopper.

I can see a trend among early adopters to shift to models where users have more say as to choosing the best deal and to those that provide some monetary incentives to shoppers.

]]> By: mmthomas http://probargainhunter.com/2006/09/30/how-do-they-make-money/#comment-19 mmthomas Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:45:54 +0000 http://probargainhunter.com/2006/09/30/how-do-they-make-money/#comment-19 I only use dealnews and its subs. What kind of model to they use? I only use dealnews and its subs. What kind of model to they use?

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