About
About CentPinch
CentPinch is a curated retail-deals site. Most deal sites are firehoses — affiliate-stuffed clickbait, expired coupons, “deals” that aren't deals, and the genuinely good stuff, all blasted at you in one undifferentiated stream. By the time you find the gem, your eyes are full of garbage.
CentPinch is also a firehose. The difference: we built you the valves. Filter by category, by retailer, by freshness, by what's actually under-priced versus its 90-day trend. The default view is everything; the useful view is the one you build with three clicks.
What CentPinch won't do
Top-10 lists. If a deal is good, it's good on its own. We don't pad.
Bait-and-switch listings. Every deal goes through validation before it lands. If it can't be verified, it doesn't get published.
Zombie posts. When a deal expires or the price moves, the listing comes down. Nobody clicks through to a dead URL on CentPinch — we pull stale listings automatically.
Pretend we aren't making money. CentPinch earns on outbound clicks that turn into purchases — that's affiliate, it's disclosed on every page, and the Affiliate Disclosure spells out the networks. What CentPinch does not do is take payment to feature a deal. Editorial calls and commission rates are kept apart.
What CentPinch will do
Move fast. When a real deal lands somewhere — a watched channel, a vetted forum, a frontpage feed — the goal is to have it published here before most readers would have found it elsewhere. The exact timing varies; the priority does not.
Vet ruthlessly. Every deal cross-checks against price history, retailer reputation, and a few signals that aren't published publicly — because once a vetting signal is described, somebody games it. The result: a lower noise floor than the firehose competitors. Not zero. Lower.
Tell the truth. If a deal is only mediocre, the post will say so. If a “lowest price ever” claim doesn't survive a price-history check, the post will note it. The whole reason CentPinch exists is that editorial signal is worth more than affiliate revenue, and that ordering doesn't change.
Who runs the desk
Editorial decisions on CentPinch are made by the CentPinch Editorial Desk — an Indianapolis-based household business that decides what gets vetted, what gets published, and what gets pulled. The Desk is the accountable editorial entity behind every post.
Posts go out under the byline Bill Dollar. Bill is the curator persona the Desk publishes in — a consistent voice across thousands of deals, because readers learn faster when the tone doesn't whiplash between shifts. Bill speaks for the Desk; the Desk is who's actually checking the work.
If a post says “we tested it,” that's a claim about the Desk's vetting process — price-history checks, retailer-reputation checks, and a few signals the Desk intentionally doesn't publish. The vetting page describes the checks. The [email protected] inbox reaches the Desk directly — corrections, tips, and arguments all land in the same queue.
Where
CentPinch operates out of Indianapolis. It's a small team running exactly enough infrastructure to do the job, no more. Tips, corrections, arguments — [email protected] works.
Now go save some money.