Best Coupon Sites You Haven’t Heard Of

Anyone who has shopped online has a stable of big-name coupon sites that they scour before making a purchase.  For some, that list starts and ends with RetailMeNot, the always-has-it site (except, increasingly, when the codes are expired or made-up).  Venturing our a little further, both CouponCabin and Coupons.com also have hundreds of thousands of coupons–both digital and print that are just a click away.  Both RMN and Coupons.com are publicly traded companies and employ hundreds and hundreds of people to help maintain their sites. Big sites have a lot of stores and a lot of codes but with that kind of volume, of course they can’t be counted on to keep every store up to date so I wanted to offer three smaller alternatives with fewer stores but better promotion codes.

Promotion Code has fewer than 10,000 stores–about a third of what RetailMeNot offers but has codes not found on the bigger sites and is stocked with better offers.  Additionally, they offer a coupons-by-mail link so you don’t even have to visit their site–the codes show up in your inbox every morning.  And the price for that is our favorite: free.  Another option is Groupon.  You probably know them best as the daily deals site but they have a surprisingly large number of coupon codes, most of which have great success ratings from their community.

Loyalty might matter for the products themselves but when you’re shopping for a great deal, keep the little guys in mind. You’ll probably be pleasantly surprised what deals are out there waiting to be discovered.

Sources: RetailMeNot, CouponCabin.com, Coupons.com, PromotionCode.org, Groupon.com