About the market

PriceZilo is a deals sheet laid out like a market newspaper. Stalls put up a notice, the notice carries the day it comes down, and when that day arrives it comes down. Everything about how this site is built follows from that one habit.

There is no algorithm choosing what goes on page one and no agency selling the space. A person reads what the merchant feeds bring in, throws most of it away, writes the headline, and prints what is left with the closing date attached.

Who prints it

The sheet is published by XYZEE, Building no 44C, Khalid Commercial Lane 1, Phase 7 Ext, DHA, Karachi 75500, Pakistan. The market trades in US dollars and the notices on it are for shoppers buying in the United States, but the desk that reads them sits in Karachi. It is one publisher, not a network of sites and not a front for a retailer. The registered detail is on the imprint, and the contact page reaches the same desk that writes these pages.

What gets a pitch

• A dated notice. If a stall will not say when a promotion ends, the desk has nothing to print in the column that matters most. Undated offers stay out.
• A US shopper’s offer. The feeds are worldwide. This sheet is not. Anything priced in another currency, written in another language, or restricted to another country is thrown out at the door.
• Plain conditions. A minimum spend, a first-order rule, an excluded range — whatever the stall told the network goes beside the offer, not underneath it in six-point type.
• Nothing this market carries. Vaping and tobacco, cannabis and CBD, adult goods, gambling, weapons, prescription medicine and high-cost credit have no stall here and never will.

What you will never find printed here

No star ratings, because nobody has been surveyed. No “used 4,812 times today”, because nothing is counted that way. No badge saying every code was re-tested at dawn, because nobody re-tests several hundred codes before breakfast and it is easier to describe the real routine than to invent a better one. No countdown clock manufactured to hurry you. Every figure on this sheet — stalls, notices, codes, discounts — was either counted from what is published or came straight from the retailer.

Who pays the printer

Nothing on the sheet costs you anything. When a shopper carries a notice out to a stall and buys, the stall pays the market a small share of that sale through an affiliate network. It comes out of the stall’s margin and never out of your bill. No stall can buy a bigger notice, a place nearer the top or a pitch the desk would not have given it anyway, because the fee is agreed before anything is written and does not change with what gets written. The whole arrangement is set out under paid listings.

The rules the sheet works to

PriceZilo follows the IAB UK Affiliate Marketing Council’s Code of Conduct for Vouchers, version 4.0, which the networks require of their publishers; Awin’s own Code of Conduct for Publishers; and the FTC’s guidance on disclosing a paid relationship. The code standards page takes those obligations one at a time and says what this sheet does about each, so the site can be measured against the text rather than against a promise.