What CentPinch Is
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.
About the byline
Posts on CentPinch go out under the byline Bill Dollar. Bill is the deals-desk persona — the editorial voice the site speaks in. He’s not a real-person reviewer and isn’t pretending to be one. CentPinch is operated by a small Indianapolis household business; the byline exists because consistent voice matters more than which staffer pulled which shift.
If a post says “we tested it,” that’s a claim about the site’s vetting, not about a flesh-and-blood reviewer touching the product. The vetting page describes what the site actually checks.
Where
CentPinch operates out of Indianapolis. It’s a small team running exactly enough infrastructure to do the job, no more. Tips, corrections, arguments — the Contact page works.
Now go save some money.