Why wasn't my post made FPD :(
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“Why wasn’t my post made FPD” 
I believe this question comes up in minds of many of the dimers (esp new members) when they post a deal and it is not promoted to the Front Page. They seek an answer for the same but unfortunately it is not practically feasible to give an answer to everyone individually. Hence, I thought of creating a Topic here to give all possible (but not restricted to) answers to this question.
Hope it will calm the queries which many have in mind.
1. Very little price decrease from the previous available best price
2. Store (website) is not reliable / has a lot of negative reviews
3. Product is not worth (reviews are not good)
4. Coupon code used was not generic (universally applicable), i.e. the deal is not applicable for everyone
5. Similar deal/product is already on FP
6. Price of the product is going down and is expected to drop further
7. Product is available at a cheaper price offline.
8. Another better product is available in the similar price range.
9. Your Topic is a REPOST
10. Content copied from other site
11. OP keeps asking for Vote Ups, Suggestions & Comments
12. OP bumps the topic multiple times
13. OP keeps messaging the Admin/Mods to make his deal FPD
14. Obvious price mistake on the store (website)
15. Coupon applicable for another product is being applied to the deal
16. Mounting to unethical means to get the deal
17. Price comparisons missing
18. Coupon valid for a short time or deal valid for a short time
19. Deal is not presentable, i.e. it is difficult to make out ‘what is the deal’ or ‘how to get the deal’
20. We missed your deal because of error on our part
21. Posting CHEAP titles such as Cheapest on earth, Dirt Cheap, Cheapest in the universe, Cheaper than previous all FPD, Cheapest ever, Cheapest online etc.
22. Good deal but very less likes & suggestions
23. Deal posted in wrong section
24. Deal/Product is restricted to only certain group of people in terms of usage
25. Because not all deals can be made FPD 
The last reason is the most common too… If the product is priced cheapest then it does not necessarily mean that it will hit the FP!
Some FAQ’s:
1. My deal has 15 likes & 15 suggestions…Why hasn’t it still made it to FP?
- Likes & Suggestions are just a part of the FP selection process. It takes hardly 10 seconds to suggest & vote up a deal but we discuss the deal at length before promoting.
Also we’ve observed that Likes & Suggestions are being given by people in a kind of an alliance…. i.e If i Vote Up & Suggest your deal…You too will do the same. This is happening with many people.
This surely increases the no. of likes & suggestions for your Topic but it decreases the value of likes & suggestions for us while discussing the deal.
2. My deal is the cheapest…Why hasn’t it still made it to FP?
- As said before, being cheapest is not the only criteria for a FPD. With so many stores around it is obvious that each and every product would be for the lowest price at one or the other store. There are many other parameters on which a deal is judged before promoting it to FP.
3. My deal is cheaper than last FPD…Why hasn’t it still made it to FP?
- Being cheaper than the last FPD should never be considered as a criteria for deal being promoted to Front Page. As mentioned above, prices of products would fall/rise continuously. The deal being considered awesome 2 or 3 months back and hitting the FP might not be appealing today even if the prices have gone down some reasons being – the product might have been deemed obsolete, there are better products in similar price range now, the store offering low price is not having good reviews… etc etc…
Remember always, price is only one criteria and not the only criteria for any deal.
Some Tips from my side:
- Everyone look for variety in the deals, so try to post more deals from the non electronic category.
Remember we are DesiDime and not DesiElectronics
- Add pics, reviews & comparisons for reference.
- Give proper details on ‘How to get the deal’ including the details of coupon used if any.
- Don’t aim for an FPD while posting the deal. Post the deal in a manner which you think will help someone buy it.
- Share the link to the previous best price on DD for that product.
- Don’t get offended by any negative comment and try to take it in a +ve way.
- Never message Mods/Admins to make your deal FP.
- Don’t bump the Topic unnecessarily .
- Give both Pros & Cons of the product.
- Follow all the rules
I hope now, this topic will help people who seek an answer to the question – “Why wasn’t my post made FPD?” and will also help everyone to post quality deals in a presentable manner.
Happy DesiDiming friends and keep posting
Thanks to all Mods for helping me with this topic & special thanks to DM bro for his contributions
Superb compilation Qwert. cheers!!!
21. Posting CHEAP titles such as Cheapest on earth, Dirt Cheap, Cheapest in the universe, Cheaper than previous all FPD, Cheapest ever, Cheapest online etc.
22. Good deal but very less likes & suggestions
Qwerty bhai, don’t you think sl no 21 is a means towards achieving sl no 22. The other day I had commented on someone’s thread because of a similar title. But in a way the person knows that even if his/her deal is amazing it might not be worthy for FP unless it gets some a bare minimum no of likes & suggestions.
Can the think-tank come up with something to address this?
nice info….:-}
Qwerty wrote:
“Why wasn’t my post made FPD”
Also we’ve observed that Likes & Suggestions are being given by people in a kind of an alliance…. i.e If i Vote Up & Suggest your deal…You too will do the same. This is happening with many people.
This surely increases the no. of likes & suggestions for your Topic but it decreases the value of likes & suggestions for us while discussing the deal.
Excellent Compilation and Nice Catch Qwerty !
+1 Green face from my side.:-}
Gr8 work Qwerty Bro
agreed boss..
Great Job ! Hope to see less complaints from now on 
Superb work Qwerty 
Good work qwerty and team admin. 
I hope something is done with regards to #12. Have seen most FP toppers bumping deals by deleting own post after say every 3-4 hours and making afresh post. No harm in doing so as it’s within rules but doesn’t this gives unfair advantage over newbies and possibly next stars? 
Awesome Mate…..
Hoping a decrease in new creation of topics from people for Doubts now, regarding their deal not hitting the FP
I have been thinking about something like this….thank you Qwerty , I guess this thread will meet all the questions I wanted to have answered in the thread I started….
Please Make this sticky
Nice Information Qwerty Bro…:) from the topic name —> I thought some new dimer could have posted this topic to get a revenge for not getting FPD….but its completely different… great work…:)
it’s ok….let me come to the point…. why my recent post wasn’t made FPD…??? 
LOL ….haha… 
Qwerty wrote:
“Why wasn’t my post made FPD”
4. Coupon code used was not generic (universally applicable), i.e. the deal is not applicable for everyone
I have seen many deals having a specific Banks debit/credit card becoming FPDs.
Also account specific coupons deals becoming FPDs. Why is that allowed then when very few can have such account specific coupons..
Any suggestions ??
Nice Info… 
what a compilation yaar….
WoW
Bhai
Anyone still has some problem contact me..:-D
Thanks for the appreciation guys
I’ll answer each of your queries but please give me some time
Also i would like to know the views of our common Deal Posters in this regard…. So all those on top of the leaderboard please share your views here
pankaj.gupta86 wrote:Qwerty wrote:
“Why wasn’t my post made FPD”
4. Coupon code used was not generic (universally applicable), i.e. the deal is not applicable for everyone
I have seen many deals having a specific Banks debit/credit card becoming FPDs.
Also account specific coupons deals becoming FPDs. Why is that allowed then when very few can have such account specific coupons..
Any suggestions ??
Yes this does happen but only when the price without coupons is also a steal price.You may have seen this with Ebay WUC deals.
In certain cases if the offer is too good then we have to promote it also like MasterCard/Visa/Amex offers
Chirag wrote:
Thanks Chirag
There is nothing in this topic that it should be made sticky Chirag….Just posted this to clarify common questions regarding FPDs
rahul.bose_kolkata318 wrote:
I have been thinking about something like this….thank you Qwerty , I guess this thread will meet all the questions I wanted to have answered in the thread I started….
http://www.desidime.com/forums/dost-and-dimes/t...
Yes…I hope this Topic will give reasons as to why a Topic wasn’t made FPD
Specially the #25th one 
marketdimer wrote:
Good work qwerty and team admin.
I hope something is done with regards to #12. Have seen most FP toppers bumping deals by deleting own post after say every 3-4 hours and making afresh post. No harm in doing so as it’s within rules but doesn’t this gives unfair advantage over newbies and possibly next stars?
Bro deleting your post & posting it again is absolutely not acceptable….Please report it the next time you see such a thing happen…Already we are very liberal with bumping the threads but deleting & posting again is certainly not acceptable! 
^^ Really very useful information
harshk wrote:
21. Posting CHEAP titles such as Cheapest on earth, Dirt Cheap, Cheapest in the universe, Cheaper than previous all FPD, Cheapest ever, Cheapest online etc.
22. Good deal but very less likes & suggestions
Qwerty bhai, don’t you think sl no 21 is a means towards achieving sl no 22. The other day I had commented on someone’s thread because of a similar title. But in a way the person knows that even if his/her deal is amazing it might not be worthy for FP unless it gets some a bare minimum no of likes & suggestions.Can the think-tank come up with something to address this?
Yes bro… Posting such titles surely does attract more traffic,likes & suggestions but we don’t like or encourage such titles.
Also we’ve seen people post tags like “Cheapest in the universe” without posting even a single Price Comparison!That made us even more against such tags.
Some tags like “Cheaper than previous all FPD” are obvious to some extent in my point of view because if a person is posting a deal it would obviously be cheaper than the previous deals.That’s the whole point of posting a new deal!
We’ll surely work out a way to tackle point 21 & 22 soon
Thanks for the suggestion
cm4444 wrote:Qwerty wrote:
Also we’ve observed that Likes & Suggestions are being given by people in a kind of an alliance…. i.e If i Vote Up & Suggest your deal…You too will do the same. This is happening with many people.
This surely increases the no. of likes & suggestions for your Topic but it decreases the value of likes & suggestions for us while discussing the deal.
+1
Have come across many such deals recently.
Good to know that mods and admins are keeping their eyes open for canvassing
Yes this has been happening a lot in the recent times…It’s difficult for us to control this & so we’ve found our way to deal with it by giving less importance to the suggestions & likes by certain users.
Guys i would request you not to waste your suggestions!A 100 rupees decrease in price for a 10k product doesn’t deserve a suggestion
QWERTY Bhai at times it happens that good deals dont get the required attention from members say suggestions, vote ups etc..Generally such things could happen with items which are not electronics how do we deals with such cases.. are admins and mods also looking for such deals ?? i am talking in general
I think the biggest difficulty, with non electronic product is no price comparison. Hence no one is suggesting these deals, There should be some way to encourage more users to suggest such deals
Qwerty wrote:
Thanks for the appreciation guys
I’ll answer each of your queries but please give me some time
Also i would like to know the views of our common Deal Posters in this regard…. So all those on top of the leaderboard please share your views here
http://www.desidime.com/leaderboard/#page=...-1
Bhai the 25th one says it alll:)
I liked the 20th nd 22 nd olso!!
Rest gud work….gud compilation…:)
Voted up nd sugested:)
+1
Have come across many such deals recently.
Good to know that mods and admins are keeping their eyes open for canvassing