Comments on: Daily Deal Sites Spreading like Wildfire- Groupon, Living Social, AtCost, Yipit & GoodNews

By: young

young — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:23:42 +0000

@adelenapias- haha. so true!

By: adelenapias

adelenapias — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:25:20 +0000

I forgot what its like not buying services without a group deal…

By: Juan

Juan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:15:05 +0000

It is sort of funny now, looking back at all of these groupon and groupon like sites, to wonder why no one thought of this earlier. They really can be so useful if one is looking for was to kick back and spend a little on a few luxuries.

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Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:10:54 +0000

[...] never been a “read the fine print” kind of gal. Always the hasty type, and I saw this Groupon type deal on Living Social where for $35 you can get $125 worth of rubbish removal, for up to [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:15:29 +0000

Another great site is http://TheDealPages.com. They have all the deals from Groupon, LivingSocial, WagJag, Dealfind and all the other top group buying websites. You can browse deals based on category and location.

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How to Avoid Frugal Fatigue as Couple | youngandthrifty.ca — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:58:33 +0000

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By: Pat Selby

Pat Selby — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:24:52 +0000

I have a new Canadian daily deal site for Toronto.

Shopping and offering deals on Canadian daily deal sites is really important for Canadians.

All companies that offer a deal on a daily deal site, pay the deal site a commission (some of them are 40%-50% which means that, if the retailer cuts their price by 50% to offer a deal and 50% of that goes to the deal site, the retailer is getting 25% of what they normally would charge. Typically, this results in a loss for the retailer). If the company that owns the deal site is not Canadian, that commission goes to the country where the company is owned. When we earn money in Canada and shop in Canada, we want our money to stay in Canada.

This is the reason that I started the site. I want to educate consumers that there will be a adverse long term affect of sending our money out of the country just to save money now.

What is going to happen to the prices of our retail items in the near future when our retailers are taking a loss now in order to pay a foreign company to offer their products to Canadians.

Please shop on Canadian deal sites and, yes, I would like it to be mine (I don’t charge a huge commission because I know that retailers are losing money on these deals and we, the consumers, will pay for this in the future) and I give 5% of my profits to a non profit organization that works hard to put smiles on the faces of children facing life threatening illnesses (www.milliondollarsmiles.ca).

Thank you for listening

By: Canadian Coupons

Canadian Coupons — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:37:29 +0000

great post! thank you very much

By: Michele hendric

Michele hendric — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:18:47 +0000

SellMyDeal believes that a good deal is very hard to pass up, which is why many people are finding themselves with too many unused vouchers from websites like Groupon. SellMyDeal offers consumers a way to sell those vouchers and allow someone else who missed the deal a second chance on getting it. See http://www.sellmydeal.com for more information.