Why we publish the deals we skip

A deals site that only shows winners is a catalog with a smile. The useful part, once you have seen a few real prices, is the deal that looks good and is not. DealTeacher puts D and F grades on Detention (Skip It), with the letter and the reason.

A skip is a tool for the next tab

You do not need an essay to ignore a bad listing. You need the one check that failed, in two or three lines, while the cart is still open.

The Jackery Explorer 2000 Plus 6kWh kit is an F. The compare price is $5,799, the kit is refurbished with a 6-month warranty, and new kits like it sold for about the same price in June.

The LG French door fridge is a D, not an F. The tag says 42% off $3,099. The fridge has been $1,482 to $1,599 several times this year, and the chart’s September point is $1,560. A D means wait for a better price.

Each of those is a pattern you can reuse on a product we have not graded yet.

The lesson is short because it has to travel. The chart, when we have recorded prices, and the price note are there when you want the prices behind it.

We keep the page up

An F is not an embarrassment to delete. The URL stays. If the offer ends, the page gets a Class Dismissed stamp and the grade remains, the same way a good deal stays up after its bell. People search for a price after the sale banner is gone. The answer should still be there.

The default feed hides dismissed deals so the desk looks current. The page itself does not vanish.

What we will not fake while we do this

A skip does not get a pile of imaginary downvotes. The grade and the lesson are the record.

The rubric behind the letter is public on How we grade. If a skip is wrong, the fix is a better lesson on the same page, not a quieter homepage.