Rum deals: current price drops

Why we don't show discount tags

A discount tag only compares a shop with itself. “−30%” sounds great — but against which price? Usually against a strike-through price or an RRP the shop sets itself, and nobody can verify. Whether a deal is actually good is something only the market can tell you — not the tag.

That's why we made a clear decision in 2026: RumX no longer shows shop discounts or strike-through prices — from any partner shop. Instead, we monitor prices across more than 40 shops around the clock and compare every rum against its lowest price of the previous 30 days. Only when the price genuinely falls below it (at least −5% and −2 €) will you see a “−X%” on RumX.

That also means real price drops are rare — and that's exactly the point. When you see a “−X%” here, there's no discount theatre behind it, just a market movement we measured ourselves. “30-day low X €” means the rum was never cheaper in the previous 30 days. We measured that ourselves; no retailer claimed it. And we only show urgency when it's real: no countdown timers, no artificial scarcity.

How deep the drops are right now

Among the rums currently on offer, the median drop is 8%, the deepest 43%. 18 bottlings have fallen by more than 20%. These numbers are not typed in: they are recomputed from our price data every time the page is rebuilt. If only a few drops show up here, there were only a few real ones.

When a rum deal is actually worth it

A deal is not good because the percentage is big. It is good when the price falls below what the rum normally costs, and when the bottle is worth the money in the first place. You can see both at a glance here: every card shows the price drop and the community rating side by side. A rum at 6.5/10 does not get better with 30 % off, it just gets cheaper.

Two things are worth checking before you buy. First the total price: we detect a drop on the bottle price, but the rum's page always shows the price including shipping to your country, because a deal with 9 EUR of postage often is not one. Second, the depth relative to the price. On a 25 EUR bottle, 5 % is about one euro; on a 200 EUR bottle it is ten. That is why we also apply an absolute floor of 2 EUR. Which rum suits you in the first place is best settled beforehand in the best-of list or by style in the rum types.

Why there are no RumX discount codes

Coupon sites keep listing supposed RumX discount codes. They are not from us: RumX doesn't issue codes, and the checkout has no field to redeem one. There is a real discount though — just without a code: in the RumX app you get 5% off your first order if you place it within 14 days of signing up, automatically and across the entire range. And this page is where the real deals live: we continuously compare prices across over 40 shops and only list genuine drops of 5% or more below the lowest price of the previous 30 days.

How RumX detects price drops

We compare every rum's cheapest bottle price with its lowest price of the previous 30 days, measured on the prices we show for your delivery country every hour. If it sits at least 5% (and at least €2) below that, we flag it as a drop. A price that merely falls back to its old level after a short spike does not count. The flag stays for at most 14 days, or until the price rises again.

FAQ

Catching deals before they are gone

A price drop is valid here for at most 14 days. After that it becomes the new normal price and the mark disappears, even if the price stays low. Often a deal is gone before then, because specialist retailers hold small quantities. If you have a particular bottle in mind, set a price alert: you set it on the rum's own page, and the RumX app tells you the moment the price falls, instead of you checking back here daily. For rare bottlings that no shop stocks any more, the auctions are the second source.