Specialdeals.com is a specialized social buying site created to help market local businesses who can offer special deals for up to 50 percent or more off retail value on goods and services. We leverage the collective social networking and buying power to negotiate the best possible and often exclusive deals with local merchants to save the most money for our local shoppers.

Here's how Specialdeals.com social buying works: A business advertises a special deal on Specialdeals.com, typically cutting the cost of a good or service up to 50 percent or even more. A maximum number of people can also be set by the business to limit the total number of purchases for a given deal. This is a win-win situation because shoppers get the best special deals and merchants can advertise and acquire new customers with no upfront costs.

After you place the order, you'll receive a confirmation email with a link to view the order information. In some cases, the item you purchased will be mailed to you without redemption. In most cases, you need to print out the email confirmation from PayPal and bring it to the merchant with your ID to redeem the deal.

Each special deal has an expiration date. You can redeem it at any time between the day you purchased it and the expiration date.

Yes, unless otherwise stated you can purchase multiple deals in one order. You can redeem one deal alone or multiple deals with friends in one visit.

Yes, unless otherwise stated you do not receive store credit or cash back for whatever you don't use in a single visit. Almost all the special deals we offer are only good for one visit.

Refunds are handled on a case-by-case basis. Unless there is something wrong with the purchase, we are generally unable to offer refunds one week after the purchase date. Please call (408-868-8855) or contact us if you'd like to discuss about a refund.

Yes! You pay nothing to Specialdeals.com upfront. This is a win-win situation because shoppers get the best special deals and merchants can advertise and acquire new customers with no upfront costs. Please join our free merchant account or contact us if you'd like to get your special deals promoted at specialdeals.com.

Yes, we do and it is called "Special Deals Gifts". "Special Deals Gifts" is a social buying and gifting app to allow you to send and receive virtual gifts created from special deals offered by local businesses. You can purchase these deals or receive a free deal when you are the Weekly Giftaholic Winner. The more special deals gifts you send, the more credits you earn.

Yes, we do. Our Affiliate Program is free to join and easy to use! There is no cost to join and there is no minimum sales requirement. Everyone can join! If you have a facebook account, you can play our "Special Deals Gifts" facebook app and visit the facebook app Affiliate page to join our Affiliate Program automatically. You can also join our Affiliate Program without a facebook account. By sharing just one special deal page link (via website, blog, Twitter, facebook share, or email) or sending just one gift from the facebook app, you can earn money from every special deal purchased by the link/gift receiver in the next 90 days. Use the money to get free deals or donate to charity. To check your earnings or obtain more information, please visit our Affiliate page or facebook app Affiliate page.

We are the first social buying website started in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area with the following unique features:

1. We back our deals and services with 100% satisfaction guarantees.
2. We have a "once mentioned, never forget" specialdeals.com domain name.
3. We have developed a unique location-based platform that powers social commerce and profit sharing.
4. We provide fast loading web pages with simple (craigslist style) UI.
5. We offer Special Deals Gifts facebook application and Special Deals Watcher widgets for websites, blogs, and smart phones (coming soon).
6. We offer API to access our real-time, location-based special deals that can be easily incorporated into all applications including desktop, web-based, facebook, and mobile apps.
7. We try harder to offer better deals.

Join specialdeals.com or sign up for our special deals alerts via email and/or Twitter. If you do, you will be among the first ones to learn about the special deals we offer and will never miss a single one of them.

Yes, please! We'd love to hear from you the special deals you'd like to get. You can also make your suggestions in our discussion forums. With our collective social buying power, you may as well get the special deals you want at unheard discount prices.

Specialdeals.com is headquartered in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area where we first started the services. If you'd like to help us launch special deals in your city, please contact us.