Great Days announce a new “gun deal” finder that went live over the weekend. The company launched the open-source deal finder in Google Groups and can be found here: Great Days Gun Deal Finder.
The Gun Deal Finder allows the staff to list any sales or other deals they find online in a forum-style platform. People can then comment on the deal to let others know if they found a better price elsewhere, what level of customer service they experienced from the seller, etc. The idea is that the company introduces a deal, but the community rates it and offers alternatives.
“We enjoy shooting and hate over-paying,” said Judy McCollum. “Great Days is a digital magazine dedicated to the outdoors. Hunting and shooting are part of that lifestyle, and we embrace them. Like many of readers, budgets are a real thing for all of us, so we decided to pull this together and share what we find.”
McCollum said the Gun Deal Finder is a new project that her staff works on in their “Own Time” – an hour set aside each day for the employees to use for non-assigned projects in the outdoors community.
“While guns are the big items that a lot of our community is looking for, finding affordable ammunition is another sore point for many people,” said McCollum. “So, we also list ammunition deals as we find them. As with the guns, our community can rate the deals and suggest other sales they find online.”