How We Check Every Deal Before Posting It

Every deal passes a price verification, an ingredient screen, a photo screen and a set of relevance floors before it reaches you. Here is the whole process, including the parts where we get it wrong and what happens then.

Most deal channels work by forwarding whatever a feed hands them. That is why so many of them are full of dead links and discounts measured against prices nobody ever paid. We built this differently, and since the whole proposition rests on that, it seems fair to publish exactly what happens.

1. The price is verified against Amazon, one product at a time

Every candidate deal has its price checked against Amazon's live listing before anything is posted — not the feed's claim about the price, but the current buy-box price. A deal whose price has already moved is dropped rather than corrected optimistically.

The "was" price is calculated against the lowest of four credible anchors: Amazon's own stated previous price, the list price, the 90-day average and the 30-day average. Using the lowest is deliberate. It produces smaller, less impressive discounts than the alternative, and it is the single rule that prevents the inflated-percentage problem that makes most deal feeds untrustworthy.

2. Ingredients are screened

Food, supplements and personal care go through a screen against a list of flagged ingredients — gelatin, carmine, shellac, alcohol, the ambiguous emulsifiers, L-cysteine and others, each with a guide of its own on this site.

A product declaring a flagged ingredient is held unless the listing itself resolves it: a stated plant source, a vegetarian mark, or third-party certification. Held means never posted. There is no queue you are meant to review; the deal simply does not reach you.

Meat has a harder rule. Any actual animal meat is held unless the listing states explicit halal or zabiha certification. No exceptions and no inference from brand or context.

3. Photos are screened

Clothing and baby product images are checked by a vision model for immodest imagery. This screen fails closed: if the check cannot run — a timeout, an outage, an unreadable image — the deal is held rather than published unchecked. It used to fail open, and that mistake put two products in front of readers that should not have been there. It was changed the day we found out.

4. Relevance floors

A percentage on its own is not a deal. Sixty-eight percent off a $2.97 item saves two dollars and wastes your attention. Two floors apply to the verified price: a minimum price and a minimum absolute saving. Both exist because a $0.95 pipe fitting at "68% off" once reached the channel, and once was enough.

5. Category and content blocks

Some categories never post regardless of price: alcohol and brewing equipment, hunting and firearms, mature-rated games, and non-Islamic holiday merchandise. Ramadan, Eid, Hajj and Umrah goods are explicitly welcome.

6. What the badges mean, precisely

• Ingredients Checked — we read the product's ingredient panel and found nothing flagged. It is not a certification, not a religious ruling, and not a claim about slaughter. It means only what it says.
• Halal Certified — the listing itself states third-party halal or zabiha certification. We are reporting that claim, not issuing it and not vouching for the certifier.

7. Deals are re-checked continuously

Live deals are re-verified on a decaying schedule — roughly every half hour when fresh, less often as they age. When a price rises or the offer ends, the deal is marked expired on the site and the Telegram post is edited in place to say so. If a deal comes back, it is reposted as a restock.

8. When we get it wrong

We do, and the mechanism matters more than the promise. Every deal page has a report link. If something looks wrong — an ingredient we missed, a certification claim that does not hold up, a price that is not what we said — it reaches a human. Nothing is auto-removed on a report, because that would be trivially abusable; it is investigated.

When a rule changes, it is applied retroactively. Adding a filter re-checks everything already stored, so old deals do not keep running under the rules that existed when they were first posted.

What we deliberately do not do

• We do not issue religious rulings. Where scholars differ, our guides describe the positions rather than choosing one.
• We do not post non-Amazon deals. Every link goes to an Amazon listing, verified at post time.
• We do not accept payment for placement. The feed is what cleared the filters, in score order.