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Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are well underway and deals will be rolling in from now through next week.
Not long ago you had to shlep or camp out to get the best deals, but these days you can find the best deals from the comfort of your home.
The catch is that many deals will only last for a very short period of time, so you’ll want to get alerted about the deals.
Here are a few options to do so.
1. Use Twitter to enable instant SMS alerts:
Step 1: Signup for a free Twitter account. (Once you setup this quick process there will be no need to visit Twitter if you don’t want to.)
Step 2: Click here to add your phone number to Twitter.
You’ll need to verify your cell phone number.
Step 3: Click here to go to the @DansDeals page. Click on the follow button and then click on the bell icon next to the follow button:
Step 4: Click here to go to the SMS notifications page. Scroll down and click on the box next to Tweets as shown below. You will now receive instant SMS notifications of deals! You can click on “View users” to see which Twitter accounts you are receiving SMS notifications from.
You can always turn off SMS notifications in the future by unchecking that box.
If you change cell phone providers you will need to undo this process and do it again from scratch to re-enable text message alerts.
There are over 95,000 DansDeals followers on Twitter, so be sure to take advantage of the best deals as soon as you get the alert!
Post will be made at all hours of the day through Cyber Monday, so be sure to set your phone to silent at night if you don’t want to be disturbed 😀
2. Twitter app push notifications:
Step 1: Download the Twitter app for iOS or Android and signup or login to your Twitter account.
Step 2: Search for DansDeals and click on follow.
Step 3: Click on the notification icon next to the follow button and enable notifications for “All Tweets” from @DansDeals.
Step 4: From the home page, click on your own profile image to get to the drop down settings menu and then on “settings and privacy.”
Step 4: Click on “Notifications” and then on “push notifications.”
Step 5: Enable push notifications for Tweets from people you follow. DansDeals should now should up in this section.
3. In-browser push notifications.
When you first visit DansDeals.com you should have the option to be notified of new posts. If you said “No thanks” you can still turn them on by clicking on the notification bell icon on the bottom left of the site:
Alternatively you can click on the secure icon in your browser’s URL bar and then editing the notifications settings to allow or block notifications in order to turn them on or off:
4. Telegram notifications:
Step 1: Download Telegram for iOS or Android. You can also use Telegram on the web.
Step 2: Follow the @DansDeals channel and enable notifications.
Have a deal tip? Post it on the DansDeals Forum’s Amazon & Walmart Deals Board or the regular Deals/Deal Requests Board for deals that aren’t related to Amazon or Walmart. If your deals are featured on DansDeals you’ll earn hat tips that can earn you rewards. Past rewards have included an all-expenses paid DDF DO dinner at Mike’s Bistro for people with at least 10 hat tips, an all-expenses paid DDF DO dinner at Izzy’s BBQ Addiction for people with at least 10 hat tips (fiiiiiiiiiiiina schoira!) a $1,500 Amazon gift card with a bottle of Blue Label and 21 year old Glenlivet, $1,000 Amazon gift card, a bottle of 40 year old single malt scotch with a $500 Amazon gift card and a set of United’s hub city collectible amenity kits, and many other prizes for contributors. You can view who has the most hat tips here.
You can also email deal tips to us at ads@dansdeals.com or Dan@DansDeals.com, but please note that we’re unable to answer personal emails.
Happy deal hunting! What is your preferred method to receive deal alerts?
You dont have the notification bar option when you you sign in or twitter from the mobile site it must be done thru a desktop or the app
Is there a way to only be notified when certain deals are posted? For example, to only be notified when a deal containing “smoking hot” or “price mistake” are posted? Thanks!
You could try using the IFTTT app for that and set up a trigger and a response
Is there a option to get just a txt message when a deal is posted?
Twitter lets you do exactly that as described in the post. No need to login again after you set it up.
It does not seem to work if you only want SMS. You end up getting one notification from Twitter and another SMS of the same thing.
Go to Twitter settings>notifications>turn off push notifications.
Dan, what’s with WhatsApp? I know it was transitioned into groups but when will you start sending deals on those groups?
Still working out the bugs and it will probably never be as fast as Twitter.
Twitter is a lot more reliable for now.
In my opinion it’s worth the effort. I love Dan’s deals, I hate SMS, and I don’t use Twitter. I signed up for the browser notifications, but it only shows the last update, earlier notifications disappear once a new one comes on. I signed up for a different (less favorable) deal site just to get the WhatsApp messages.
I’m sure I’m not the only one.
We’re working on it, but you don’t need to “use Twitter.”
Just follow the instructions above and you never need to login to Twitter again.
You can also use Telegram.
Any way to get sms alerts on an Israeli phone
Not sure, did you try any of the options in this post?
Yes. Seems like they do not support Israel. I am hoping that perhaps someone has an idea?
I get them sent to my Google voice number
How can we receive alerts on DDF of new topics posted in Deals/Amazon Deals forums
Click on notify in those forums.
for some reason twitter isn’t allowing me to receive sms, is anyone else having that issue?
Website notifications don’t stay on for me, last for a few hours or days, then they stop until press subscribe again. Any tips?
I don’t have that issue with Chrome.
Have you tried setting up texts via Twitter?
im new to dans deals, any more info & details pls whats that DDF? (DansDeals F?) & how it works? thanks
DansDeals Forums 🙂
https://forums.dansdeals.com/
hi dan! im also new to DD whats the best way to share a deal i found? (if i send an email how will you recognize this deal as credit for me for the (hat?) rewards? thanks
i signed up already for DDF i’m little confused how it it works, i maybe have some deals where/how exactly should i post it, dan?
Open a new thread in the Deals board.
DDF DO BOARD, then click on top new topic?
No, the “Deals/Deal Requests” board or the “Amazon & Walmart Deals” board.
I wish notifications on chrome browser on android phone would stay all notifications not just the last notification
Step 3: Click here to go to the @DansDeals page. Click on the follow button and then click on the bell icon next to the follow button:
Do I need to click on the bell icon to receive SMS alerts? Because then I’m getting on my desktop twice each deal, from Twitter and from DansDeals it self, any idea?
I followed all your instructions still not getting sms messages. I have a basic phone with sprint network. Any ideas?
Twitter has disabled the sms option for new users only ppl who were using it before can continue
Did you try the directions in this post?
Yes I did, I tried several times. I guess “mk” is right. Any other ideas?
I setup a new account with the post’s instructions and it worked.
IIRC if your phone number was associated with a twitter account before they changed the rules you can still get from that phone now. But if it wasn’t, you can’t.
I am not getting WhatsApps anymore or text notifications from you even though I followed instructions and I didnt change carriers?
same here. I stopped getting the sms’s. I followed the instructions to unfollow and delete my number etc. When I restarted I got one text that I am following and that is it. I checked push notifications are on off. Any other ideas? Can i be a g3 verizon issue?