What “vetted” actually means here
Most deal sites publish first and validate later, if at all. CentPinch does the opposite. Every listing clears a series of internal checks before it goes live — product is real, price is real, the discount is real against recent baseline, the link works. If a deal can’t be confirmed, it doesn’t get published. We’d rather miss a deal than run one that falls apart.
The specific checks aren’t published. The CentPinch about page says it plainly: once a vetting signal is described, somebody games it. The principle — verify before publishing — is the part that’s public.
Freshness is enforced, not assumed
Every published deal has an expected lifetime. When the price moves or the deal expires, the listing comes down automatically. You shouldn’t need to wonder whether a CentPinch listing is still live. If it’s on the site, it’s still live as of the last check — or it’s gone.
Where the line is
Editorial selection and affiliate commission are kept on separate sides of the desk. Brands don’t pay to be featured. A deal with a higher commission rate does not get preference in the queue. If two deals on the same product cross our threshold, the better deal wins and the worse one doesn’t run — even if it’s the one we’d earn more on.
What CentPinch earns is disclosed in full on the Affiliate Disclosure.
What we don’t do
No fake countdowns. If there’s a real time limit, we’ll say so. There’s no manufactured urgency.
No inflated MSRPs. Discounts reference recent average price, not the highest list price we can find. The math doesn’t get to lie because the headline looks better.
No pretending vetting is human. The pipeline is mostly automated. The verification is real but it’s automated verification, and we say so. If a listing’s wrong, the Contact page is how you flag it — the correction is fast.
Where it can fail
Retailer prices can change between capture and click. A deal can be live when posted and expired by the time you arrive — the freshness pass catches most of these but not all in real time. If you see a stale listing, flag it. We’d rather know.
Why this exists
The retail-deals web is mostly affiliate-stuffed clickbait where editorial signal is whatever ranks. CentPinch is the bet that real editorial signal — what to publish, what to hold, what to flag as mediocre — is worth more than the marginal revenue from publishing junk. That ordering doesn’t change. If it ever does, the site’s done its job badly.