The sale functions in Zencart are pretty weak. It is amazing that Salemaker items do not show up with Specials (they are the same exact thing to a customer). This just amazes me. What is the point of salemaker if it can not be found except by accident? I tried the Numinix fix to have salemaker list with "specials" but I think that since I have "single listing template" installed it will not work for me.
All of our top competitors also have sales on manufactures, designers, categories or on select items weekly and I am sure they do not do accomplish that one by one. They also have cool java counters that count down the days till expiration.