On Tuesday, March 20, the daily deal space will be buzzing with a special offer from Amazon’s surging flash sale site, AmazonLocal. A $10 Amazon gift card can be yours for the sum of just $5.
Without question, Groupon has been a tremendous business success story thus far, inspiring the legions on copycat daily deal sites, along with the previously unheard-of notion that coupons can, in fact, be cool. The latest major force to leap into the field dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial is PayPal, which is expected to start rolling [...]
Smartphones—and therefore, deals—are everywhere this holiday season. This means that shoppers should have an especially easy time getting the best price on gifts. Then again, it also means that retailers have an especially easy time reaching consumers and tempting them into making purchases.
The main selling point for Groupon, LivingSocial, and other daily deal vendors is how much the consumer saves through the use of discounted vouchers. But a couple of new studies demonstrate a point that should be obvious, but often seems to be overlooked: Despite the discounted prices, when it comes to purchasing massages, restaurant meals, [...]
The presentation of a daily deal from Groupon, LivingSocial, and others is fairly standard. Along with a description of the deal, there are always three numbers displayed prominently: the original price, the discounted price, and the percentage that would be saved by snatching up the deal. Deals, of course, are more enticing when the gap [...]
A whopping one-third of daily deal sites disappeared in recent months, while the players that remain seem eager to attempt almost anything to keep customers interested.
Two big names are dropping out or seriously scaling back their interests in the daily deal marketplace, an oversaturated field with hundreds of competitors that’s still mostly dominated by dominated by Groupon and LivingSocial. Facebook, which launched its flash deals offering called Facebook Deals last spring, is already pulling the plug on the operation, while [...]
More than 1 in 5 daily deal vouchers are never used. What’s more, at least two states are now looking into whether their expiration dates break the law. Has the heyday of daily deals passed?
