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It would seem that the sales people at Groupon become less valuable as Groupon clones and Woot-type sites gain traction. As they become more popular among cons
by mikecarlucci 16y ago
It would seem that the sales people at Groupon become less valuable as Groupon clones and Woot-type sites gain traction. As they become more popular among consumers wouldn't businesses start clamoring to get listed, negating the advantage of the skilled deal negotiators? Although every business would want to be on the largest site, which would be Groupon.
Would buying Groupon and running it independently like Zappos and Woot for Amazon somehow keep Google out of the eyes of regulators in a way starting a clone wouldn't?
- mattmcknight 16y agoWhat I don't understand is why Google doesn't go a layer up from this and aggregate across the many deal sites. Outside of the US, the clones are the leaders in the space. Google could work to provide search across the multiple deal providers, provide custom alerts when particular products and services become available (just imagine the value of knowing which items a person is watching to see when they go on sale!). Google Deals could be much more powerful than a single site app like Groupon. Buying Groupon, especially at the rumored prices, is a weak move. Incidentally, I signed up for the service and unsubscribed after two days. It's of zero interest to me to have irrelevant garbage deals pushed at me, so maybe I am missing some key spam/bacn tolerance level needed to grok it.