This week I am reviewing dealoco.com on request. Dealoco is a new site, which to my guess was launched (may be unofficially) in October of 2007 and made an official launch in December 2007 (per the press release). Most references online and the press release mention advanced search engine, custom deal alerts, product reviews and grief factor. In this review we will see about these and several other features.
I recall reading in some blog/forum which tells something like “most deal sites have a look and feel of a design by a high school student who made a website for fun”. Yes, that is how most deal / coupon websites are, though there are some exceptions. Given that there is so much information deal sites want to get out within a short time, most sites tend to overload pages by cluttering excessively. But visiting this deal site made me think that it was one of those exceptions, a very nice & pleasant layout and feel. It is this look and feel of the website, which made it worth a review.
Quickly about the layout, the main top menu links to several categories of products such as cameras, computers and so on. Above which is a search box and above it are links to forums and other regular stuff. The home page lists “featured deals” for the day and the past few days with each day made into a block. Details about each block can be minimized or expanded, with the ability to expand or minimize all the items in a block in a single click. Each of the category pages list deals for that category in a chronological order.
