Are deal sites worth it, or do they just make you spend more?

This is a fair skepticism to have. A feed of constant discounts is, structurally, designed to get you to buy things you weren't planning to buy. That's true of deal sites and it's true of retail email lists and it's true of a lot of shopping apps generally.

The impulse buying risk is real

If a deal feed is the only thing shaping your purchase decisions, you will end up buying more stuff, some of it discounted, some of it stuff you didn't need at any price. That's a legitimate downside worth naming plainly.

Where the value actually is

The upside of a comparison tool isn't the feed, it's the lookup. When you already intend to buy something, checking whether the price is good and where to buy it doesn't create new spending, it just makes an existing purchase cheaper or safer.

How to use these tools without the downside

• Decide what you want to buy before opening a deal feed, not the other way around.
• Use search-based comparison for planned purchases rather than scrolling a feed looking for something to want.
• Treat Daily Deals and For You feeds as browsing entertainment, not a shopping list.
• Check the 90 day trend before buying something a feed pushed you toward, to confirm it's actually a good price.

Where QuickFinds fits into this

It's built primarily as a search tool: you look up what you want and it tells you where to buy it and whether the price is good. The For You feed and Daily Deals exist too, and they carry the same impulse risk any feed does, so the discipline still has to come from you.

The honest verdict

Deal sites and comparison tools are worth it when you use them to check purchases you already decided on. They can work against you if you let a feed decide what you want. The tool doesn't solve that, the habit does.