Spadout.com Dead?
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It seems as though spadout.com is no more. Their website and facebook page is gone. Their twitter account hasn't posted anything since 2011. The domain is still registered but the site has not worked in over a month. Anyone have a line on what happening here? Also, anyone know of similar sites to view various deals? |
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I used to use spadout. Too bad it's gone. I like those aggregators. |
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I'm surprised to find that they haven't worked in awhile either. It's very suspect that they are down. I wonder if they were bought out by a big retailer. They really helped me find stuff on sale. |
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There was a MP.commer that worked for them. Leah, I think? Maybe she'll chime in. |
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Wow - appears its dead. Yes - Leah Miller use to work for them, but a long time ago. |
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Thanks Dave! I'm going to give it a try. |
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Awesome - its a hobby project of mine - let me know if there are any features you would really like and I can see about adding them. |
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Wow this is now the top result for googling "spadout". I wonder why they took it down. |
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I've been using gearchase.com for price comparison since spadout died, but I'm glad to see alternatives that support good causes. I'll definitely use the two sites mentioned above. |
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Hi nbwoodward, |
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Oh yea also - nbwoodwward, funny you say its the top result, I've been gitting 300~ hits a month from this post, that explains it :D |
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Used to use spadout too, but then I was finding better deals on my own. And most were really obvious. I kind of figured that "sponsorship" might be playing with the results, and the main sites were offering equal or bigger discounts. |
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Also Google has become pretty tough on these types of sites. If you look at the traffic for spadout (or activejunky for example) - traffic decreased quite a bit over the last ~3 years. Unless your doing it as a hobby project, its tough to stay float. |
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Thanks Joanne, we're all just climbing bums trying to get away from the day job :). |
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None of the sites linked above compare well to Spadout and I doubt I'll use any of those as they are currently set up. Spadout was rocking and I used it all the time. If you wanted a certain brand of gear, you could go and sort until you had 6 retailers with it, or if you wanted a list of non-locking biners you could sort based on price or greatest percentage off. Bam. Good stuff. |
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My google search of "Spadout down?" also brought me first hit to this post. Guess it is dead since it's been half a year since the original posting. |
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SPAM ^^^^^^ |
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It's not spam - they are suggesting an alternative to the topic of this post (which I think is really well done - nice job AlpineAlison!) |
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So where did they go? |
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Billcoe wrote:So where did they go?I don't know, but this site shows the same price for Moccasyms across the board. Huh? gearchase.com/search/produc… Spadout showed price variations, which every product had. Kind of strange seeing the exact same price for every vendor. |
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Stich wrote: I don't know, but this site shows the same price for Moccasyms across the board. Huh? gearchase.com/search/produc… Spadout showed price variations, which every product had. Kind of strange seeing the exact same price for every vendor.I'm seeing differences--Climb High is at 20% off but most are around the list price. There are also multiple appearances of the same vendor (six from Backwoods, for example) at the same price. But what's with "US Outdoor Store" showing Moccasyms with a list price of $320 discounted to the (actual) list price of $124.95? |