Frequently Asked Questions
General Questions
Using Best Travel Deals
- How can I find a deal that another user submitted, voted on, or commented on?
- How can I find deals that were submitted by/commented on/voted on by another user?
- How does sharing a deal work?
- I have found a bug/problem with the site, what do I do?
- Am I allowed to have more than one Best Travel Deals account?
- Can I see who voted down my deal or comment?
- What can I do if a user is insulting me or being offensive?
- My deal did not make the front page and another deal received considerably less votes and did, why is that?
General Questions
Well technically you can submit anything you would like…but remember this is a site for travel deals (the best travel deals I might add). So only submit deals that you find for the travel industry, whether you need a plane, train, or automobile (or bike, feet, paddleboat, lunar lander….you get the point).
Why of course, we welcome shameless self-promotion. That being said please be sure that you are submitting items that are actually deals. Otherwise the community will vote it down…but save yourself the embarrassment.
Like we said, you technically can submit anything you want to the site, but we have built this community for members to share and enjoy other travel deals. If we find that you are submitting junk to the site, we reserve the right to remove any deals posted and potentially ban the site the “deal” was posted from. Be careful what you post.
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Using Best Travel Deals
Any activity that a user participates in on the site (whether they submit a deal, vote on a deal, or comment on a deal) will be stored in the user’s profile. If the user is within your network, you can look at the “Friends Activity” section of your own profile and find it there.
- You can see any user’s activity simply by visiting their profile. All activity (that the user wishes to display) will be found on the main page of their profile.
- If you wish to see the activity of someone who is in your network you can also look at the section of your profile titled “friends activity” to find it there.
- Sharing a deal sends a notification directly to the users you specify. You can only choose to share deals with members who are already in your network.
- If you are sharing a deal with someone who does not use Best Travel Deals you will see an option to email the deal directly to them within the share options for each deal.
- Some members may select in their preferences that they do not wish to receive shared deals from other members.
If you run into any problems while using Best Travel Deals please send us an email at info@besttraveldeals.net to let us know immediately so we can fix the problem. Be sure to include the URL of the page encountering the problem along with any details that you can provide.
- Technically yes you can register more than one account. However, this goes against our Terms of Service as it would allow users to inflate their own deals giving them an unfair advantage at getting more exposure than other users.
- If you are found to have more than one account we will remove both accounts and will not allow you to create a new one.
- Please note that any violation of the Terms of Service can result in removal of your account so please read it carefully.
We keep that information private for the sake of the site. We do not wish to begin any wars between users constantly voting down each other’s material. If you believe someone is constantly voting down your deals you may contact us for assistance at info@besttraveldeals.net.
If a user is truly being offensive please take a screen shot of any instances and report it to info@besttraveldeals.net so that we may further investigate the situation. You may want to be careful though because if we find that you provoked the member or were also offensive you will be held to the same standards as specified in the Terms of Service.
The number of votes is not the only way your deal will or won’t make the front page. There are several other factors that are taken into consideration before a deal is promoted to the front page of Best Travel Deals.
