shaneroberts
Shane Roberts
shaneroberts
Editor Emeritus, The Inventory

It's about friction to checkout not brand loyalty. Read more

It's about friction to checkout not brand loyalty.

Taxes will not necessarily be the same. More importantly, our readers greatly prefer eBay to Best Buy. Read more

Taxes will not necessarily be the same. More importantly, our readers greatly prefer eBay to Best Buy.

This implementation is primarily for non-Deal evergreen content that we’re going to be doing a lot more of. I’d also stress that it’s a test, and that the number of edge cases are staggering. Read more

This implementation is primarily for non-Deal evergreen content that we’re going to be doing a lot more of. I’d also

All I can tell you is that I bought this in a recent Gold Box and put it on my balcony, and it’s amazing. Read more

All I can tell you is that I bought this in a recent Gold Box and put it on my balcony, and it’s amazing.

I can tell you what you can also find on Google. We generated 150M gross revenue to retail partners in 2015. Commission rates range from 0-20% depending on the retailer and category- we post a ton of deals that don’t pay us anything. Read more

I can tell you what you can also find on Google. We generated 150M gross revenue to retail partners in 2015.

In addition to the same thing Shep mentioned... Read more

In addition to the same thing Shep mentioned...

I’ve passed my last couple flights with Exploding Kittens. Read more

I’ve passed my last couple flights with Exploding Kittens.

A Williamsburg condo at the bottom of the real estate market. Read more

A Williamsburg condo at the bottom of the real estate market.

It’s just supply and demand. They’re selling far fewer giant TVs, so the costs stay high. We’ve seen several killer deals for 70" sets in the past year. Read more

It’s just supply and demand. They’re selling far fewer giant TVs, so the costs stay high. We’ve seen several killer

After years of buying my parents awesome gifts they never used, I got them both an Amazon Fire for Christmas and they love them. Read more

After years of buying my parents awesome gifts they never used, I got them both an Amazon Fire for Christmas and

Our readers prefer Amazon to other retailers by a factor of thirteen, but we post a ton of eBay deals every day, along with lots of other retailers. Read more

Our readers prefer Amazon to other retailers by a factor of thirteen, but we post a ton of eBay deals every day,

We get as many as 100 submissions from third-party Amazon sellers per day, in addition to all the other avenues deals come in from. Read more

We get as many as 100 submissions from third-party Amazon sellers per day, in addition to all the other avenues

I have 50" and 70" Vizio 4Ks, they’re amazing. There will be good deals around Black Friday, but they’ll be good deals before then as well. Read more

I have 50" and 70" Vizio 4Ks, they’re amazing. There will be good deals around Black Friday, but they’ll be good

No, but the ads you see can be. Read more

No, but the ads you see can be.

I can tell you what you can also find on Google. We generated 150M gross revenue to retail partners in 2015. Commission rates range from 0-20% depending on the retailer and category- we post a ton of deals that don’t pay us anything. Read more

I can tell you what you can also find on Google. We generated 150M gross revenue to retail partners in 2015.

We generally reject the entire “best time to buy something” philosophy. The best time to buy something is when Amazon is running a Gold Box on it, and there’s no predicting that ahead of time. Read more

We generally reject the entire “best time to buy something” philosophy. The best time to buy something is when

We’ve gotten a lot of comments about this from dedicated app deals readers. Unfortunately it just wasn’t a very popular segment, so it’s become less of a focus, for now anyway. Read more

We’ve gotten a lot of comments about this from dedicated app deals readers. Unfortunately it just wasn’t a very

We’ve explored apps but nothing to announce in the medium term. Read more

We’ve explored apps but nothing to announce in the medium term.