Hi OZB,
Probably thought we get lot of deals around these coupon sites some of which are amazing.
Was just wondering if you have any opinions or feedback on these sites.
I was thinking of coming up with something similar in the coupon space so thought this would be the right forum to see what people think about these marketing techniques.
Something similar on these business lines.
About spam they just send out the news letter for their deals.Would you consider it a spam as a consumer or an email to let you know about the latest deals.
ok this was question
About spam they just send out the news letter for their deals.Would you consider it a spam as a consumer or an email to let you know about the latest deals? (forgot the question mark and not my opinion)
About spam they just send out the news letter for their deals
So they're just sending emails/newsletters that are months old, instead of sending updates on whats been added aka their latest deals?
Sorry, but that's a silly question. Both are exactly the same thing, unless Scoopon and the like are in fact promoting 6 months old deals instead of new deals.
The problem is not with the sites itself. But with the quality of the service providers such as the massage place, cleaning services etc.
If you are going to make similar website, if you could make stricter rules about dealing with customers' complains, standard of quality of the advertisers it would be good
Yeah that is something good to think about as these sites just see the revenue from the service providers who actually reduce or don't care about the quality of the product or service.
From my personal experience I have many times seen that when you take a coupon to these places they reduce the quality or quantity of the service/product as the merchant thinks that we have paid less amount and should get lesser value.
I don't like those conditions where you need to book at least 35.89 hours in advance and it must be a Wednesday or Friday but not in a month that ends in "r" and definitely not booked for between 6-8 pm on a Saturday evening.
But yeah the annoying part is that a restaurant, for example, creates a dinner for two that's not on the standard menu. You look at the standard menu prices and think you're saving 80% or so but you're actually getting 60% smaller portions and forced to drink their house wine or no drink at all. Good way to ensure you save money though when going out with the dessert-eating, organic mocktail tea drinking, bill-splitting friends.
You might be 5 years too late to talk about the Group Buy sites. We have a forum for Group Buy discussions, and the posts there peaked in 2011-2012. Not much happening these days. Groupon, LivingSocial and Scoopon are all gradually transit to the market place model, i.e. eBay.
This article sums up the decline of this business model. Op, you've missed the boat.
https://digit.hbs.org/submission/the-rise-and-demise-of-grou…
Thanks Everyone.
Really appreciate all your comments but do you see a market for this if the improvements are made to better the customer experience and list only business after the company people actually tries the business and if good experience then only list it to the customers.
Also any other problems you see with these type of businesses which need improvement.
Whilst there are bargains from these sites; the majority of the time they're spam.
What were you thinking of making?