Our Standards
How We Verify Every Deal
Every price on mogdeals is checked by a process, not a vibe. Here is exactly what a deal has to survive before it earns a spot — and what happens to it afterward.
The 50% rule
For most categories, a deal only qualifies if it is more than 50% off the retailer’s real list price. Not the “compare at” price a marketplace invents, not the price of a bigger model — the actual list price of that exact product, on that retailer’s own page. A $200 item “on sale” for $130 is a fine discount, but it is not a mogdeals front-page deal. It does not get listed.
Cosmetics are the one exception, and it is a deliberate one: prestige beauty brands almost never discount at all, so a verified 20% or more off a genuine list price is a real event in that world. Clothes and cosmetics also get pinned first in our category order, because that is what most of our readers come for.
Checked against the retailer’s own page
We never copy a price from a coupon aggregator, a screenshot, or another deal site. Every price is read from the product page itself, and the product photo comes from that same page — because the fastest way to mislead a shopper is a great price paired with the wrong variant’s picture. If the page shows a price only with a coupon code or only for members, the listing has to say so in plain language. A price you cannot actually get is not a price.
Re-checked every day, expired without mercy
A deal is a snapshot, not a promise. Prices move, stock sells out, and sales end early. So every active deal on mogdeals is re-verified daily: price, availability, and whether the discount still clears the bar. The moment a deal dies — full price again, sold out, page gone, or the discount no longer qualifies — it is moved to the Vault with an expiry stamp. If we cannot verify a deal, we treat it as expired. No exceptions, because a stale “deal” costs you more than a missing one: it costs you trust in every other price on the page.
What gets rejected
- Coupon-gated headline prices listed as if they were the shelf price.
- Fake list prices — a “was” price the item never actually sold at.
- Wrong-variant photos — the picture shows the premium model, the price is for the base one.
- Dead links and sold-out items still wearing a discount badge.
- “Up to” sales where one clearance sock is 70% off and everything else is 12%.
Why so strict?
Because deal sites live or die on one thing: whether you believe the next price you see. We would rather list ten deals we have checked than a hundred we have not. If you ever spot a price on mogdeals that does not match the store, that deal has either just changed or we have made a mistake — either way it comes down at the next check, the same day.
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