Okay I give up! Morningsave and SideDeal What is the difference and why should I buy there?

@Barney oh I burned through those coupons week 1. Except for casemates, I just used that this week

Hey @CaptAmehrican you should look in the lower left corner instead

@CaptAmehrican Scroll down to the bottom of the forum page and click on the name.

@shawn I never win in quick draw contests.

@CaptAmehrican @shawn surely you should place it on the side.

@Barney @CaptAmehrican yeah but Casemates isn’t there, what’s up with that?

@MrMikenIkes Casemates really disappointed me today, I so wanted a hard cider, but the one they are selling this year is too dry. And I’ve got that coupon burning my pocket…

It’s now on my shit list, so as far as I’m concerned, it can stay de-listed.

@Barney @MrMikenIkes @CaptAmehrican @shawn

Hey meh you should put a link to all of your sites in the upper right corner dropdown menu

That spot is to link to the respective forums for those sites. Not all mercatalyst.com sites have forums. The bottom links (on the left) go to the actual sites.
YW

@OnionSoup this is the best answer. I’ll wait until tomorrow to order, it’s afternoon here now

And here’s some guesses if you’re wondering why SideDeal exists.

• Maybe Steve Harvey broke off the original SideDeal deal and Mercatalyst wanted to see if, with some fresh art assets and new stuff sourced by their buyers, it’d be worth keeping around. They’d already set up the infrastructure (very cheap since it’s using the platform as all their other stores, but there are some fixed assets like the domain name), so perhaps they would like to extract more value out of the SideDeal name instead of shitcanning it and redirecting people to Meh or whatever.
• SideDeal might be going for a different demographic than it originally was, or that MorningSave has. I don’t have cable TV, for instance, so to see a deal site strongly partnered with daytime TV shows comes off as an amusing anachronism. To new visitors, it might seem off-putting! Getting new people to think, “wow, this is for me!” is one of the best ways to convert them into paying customers, so if SideDeal is branded to appeal to hip twenty-thirtysomethings with excess cash then that’s a different market from people who are swayed by TV hosts pitching products.
• Or the new SideDeal might just be a wild experiment. PastaDrop proved that the company hasn’t lost that spirit, after all.

@lljk additionally, I get a subtle womensy/mensy feel from Morningsave/Sidedeal respectively (or at least womensy/neutral), totally without saying it outright in this non-binary age. Definitely similar stuff aimed at different targets. And sometimes there are better prices on one vs the other as mentioned above.

Also, I believe the proper term for Steve Harvey is former daytime host, which is why the redesign came about for the site. But I think he still hosts family feud.

@djslack @lljk yeah, over the past few months morningsave seems to skew much more to household goods and beauty products, while sidedeal skews to tech. But there are lots of items that sell on both (puck lights!) and sometimes interesting price arbitrages, even for stuff not on the “deal of the day” (where one site has the same item for 20% less (or more) than the other site).

@medz you’re welcome?

@medz I’m still confused about what I should call the powers that be. Mediocre.com still exists and it’s almost identical to mercatalyst.com (it only has a different header). When you Google “Mercatalyst” all that comes up is Linkedin and GlassDoor. But neither of those names are listed on the main sites and everything says “Powered by Checkout.org.” I feel like there’s a name they want me to use, I just don’t know what that is.

@Willijs3 they are shirking the “a mediocre corporation” umbrella company name because it confuses the Wall Street types. They chose to be Mercatalyst instead because investors and potential business partners really respect a buzz-word type of company name.

@Willijs3 Checkout.org is a friendlier brand name for the online stores. Originally it was a B2B service for companies that didn’t have a storefront and needed an easy way to fulfill orders. Nowadays it covers all of the company’s event-driven retail platforms; @snapster described its new purpose in March 2017.

And @medz explained the new Mercatalyst name. Basically, while us Meh weirdos thought “Mediocre” was hilarious, too many business-types took it at face value on resumes and purchasing offers. The new name reflects the company finding its niche and maturing into it.

@OldCatLady works for me. Are you using your meh password?

@RiotDemon It works fine now. On two different systems, when I check it shortly after midnight, it gives me the uh-oh redirect error when I try to log in, when I click on ‘my account’ and when I click on ‘see today’s deal’.

@OldCatLady too many people furiously shopping maybe? Does it happen often?

@RiotDemon Yes, repeatedly for at least four days that I remember. At the time when I posted above, it was ‘uh-oh, something…’.

@OldCatLady I had this issue before… Something about how the page refreshes. If it happens again, can you wait five minutes and try again? Let me know if it worked after the five minutes.

@RiotDemon At 00:09 just now, it instantly recognized me as a member and I could see the deal.

@OldCatLady I gave it the side eye at midnight, telling it to behave.

@RiotDemon I bow before your power. What else can you do? I have a sofa that won’t stop sliding off its gripper feet. Can you tell it to ‘stay’ please? THANKS.

@OldCatLady sure. Just buy this and I’ll talk to the sofa.

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