
Find US clearance deals
Clearance Critter helps shoppers find US retail clearance deals and browse its tracked-product catalog by keyword, department, merchant and budget. Inspect published price evidence, comparison baselines and last-observed price and stock information, then follow retailer links.
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https://clearancecritter.com/api/mcpClearance Critter answers US retail shopping questions from its own curated clearance catalog plus an on-demand retail search that and run inside the same call when the catalog has too few matches. Every tool here is read-only: none of them can buy, reserve or change anything.
Choose the search for the request: use for best deals, sales or price drops; use for broad product coverage, an exact item, or the cheapest item fitting a budget. For best deals keep the default recommended order; price-asc answers cheapest, not strongest value. Both tools accept the shopper’s product, budget and retailer preferences. An ordinary alternative can help when deals are sparse, but never call it a discount.
Broad queries such as clothing, computer hardware, jewelry, lawnmowers and furniture are browsing requests: start with one call with that query and limit 12. Curate a varied set of 4–8 useful offers when supported, never more than 15 shown at once. Do not pad with duplicates, uncertain variants or comparison links. A large percentage reduction alone does not establish good value: consider the actual product, specifications and usefulness, and avoid obsolete components at poor prices. If the first result lacks a useful product type, make at most two focused follow-up searches for the missing types, then give the useful options actually found. Keep clothing size/color, jewelry material and gemstone type, mower battery/charger inclusion, furniture dimensions/delivery, and hardware capacity/compatibility attached to the right offer. Do not assume unstated properties.
Answer with the products. For each one give the title, the price, the retailer, the condition and the link — a short shortlist the shopper can act on. Use direct retailer product URLs for product recommendations; Amazon product referral links are fine. Search and comparison pages do not count as product-page options. Leave out where the data came from: do not name or describe data providers, price trackers, community sources or search partners, do not explain how a price was found, checked, scored or ranked, and do not attach routine age disclaimers, "not directly checked" notices or a confirm-the-price line to every row. Timestamps are optional and usually better left out; a "last checked" time is worth one short clause only when the shopper asks how current a price is.
Keep everything that changes what the shopper pays or gets. Condition (new, used, open box, refurbished) belongs in every line. So do coupons, memberships, quantity limits, in-store or local-pickup-only offers, and shipping cost whenever the result states one — relay terms when it is present. Where an affiliate link is shown, the affiliate disclosure is shown with it.
A result’s link.kind says where its link goes. "retailer" is the shop’s own product page: offer it as the retailer’s page. "comparison" opens a page listing sellers for that product, which is not the named merchant’s checkout and may carry a different seller and price: label it "Compare offers", never "View at" or "Buy at" that merchant, and keep link.note with it. Use direct retailer product links for a shopping shortlist. A comparison-linked result can help with discovery, but it is not a product-page option: do not use it to fill a requested count. Show comparison links separately only when the shopper asks to explore comparisons.
When the shopper asks about price history, priceHistory supports exactly two figures: the listing’s 90-day average and its 90-day low, with how far the current price is below the average. Give the numbers plainly, without naming who recorded them and without a methodology note. They are a pair of summary figures, not a daily series, not an MSRP and not a retailer list price, and nothing else may be inferred from them. Claim a saving only where a result supplies one: a null discount, referencePrice or quality.score means unknown, never zero.
Never claim more than the result does. Do not say a price, a listing or stock was directly checked, verified or confirmed; do not describe anything as in stock, available or current unless the result’s own field says so (inStock: null and availability: "unknown" are unknown, never available); and never state a date or time that is not in the result. A product rating is the product’s own stars as the source stated them, and a null rating is "no rating yet", not zero.
None in the store listings or on the server