About CreaseDeals

CreaseDeals collects publicly listed lacrosse gear prices from retailer websites, records how those prices change over time, and shows which discounts are real. We are not a retailer and we sell nothing.

How the site works

We show a discount only when it is one a shopper can actually act on. In practice that means we exclude pack-priced items whose discount only exists by comparing a multipack against a single unit, we label returned and open-box stock clearly instead of letting it top a discount sort, and we do not claim an item is at its lowest price until we have watched the price actually move.

Where the same product is listed by more than one retailer, we show it once and name the others alongside it.

If you are a retailer: what our crawler does

You have most likely arrived here from our crawler's User-Agent string in your access logs. That string is:

CreaseDealsBot/0.1 (+https://creasedeals.com/about; price tracking for lacrosse gear)

If you would prefer we did not fetch your catalog, say so and we will stop. We would rather remove a retailer than be an unwelcome guest. No explanation required, and there is nothing to escalate — one message is enough.

What the crawler does

Requests only your public, unauthenticated /products.json endpoint — the same data any visitor's browser can request. We do not log in, and we do not attempt to reach anything that requires authentication.
Reads your robots.txt before a retailer is ever added, and re-checks it periodically. If it disallows the path, we do not fetch it.
Runs once per day, one request at a time, with a one-second pause between requests. There is no concurrency. A full pass over a large catalog is a few dozen requests.
Identifies itself honestly on every request. We do not disguise the crawler as a browser, and we will not do so to get around a block.
Stops on its own if something is wrong. Three failed runs in a row and the retailer is disabled automatically and no longer fetched, until a human looks at why.

What we store, and what we don't

We keep the facts needed to show a price and link back to you:

Product title, price, and compare-at price
The URL of your product page
The URL of your product image
Whether the item is in stock

We deliberately do not:

Copy your product descriptions. Your body_html is never stored.
Rehost your images. They are linked directly from your CDN, so you keep the traffic and stay in control of them.
Reproduce your pages. Every listing links back to you; the click goes to your site.

Contact

Email hello@creasedeals.com. Removal requests are actioned first and discussed afterwards, if at all.