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As the manager of an apparel manufacturer's e-Commerce arm, flash sale sites are just useful. We have essentially unlimited goods to move, any additional channe
by cm2012 13y ago
As the manager of an apparel manufacturer's e-Commerce arm, flash sale sites are just useful. We have essentially unlimited goods to move, any additional channel that can actually move volume is awesome. NoMoreRack is never in tech circles, but shit they move product.
- ericcholis 13y agoI can agree with this, but I think that most flash sale sites have diverged from Groupon and the like (or the other way around). Physical goods based limited deals offer more value than purchasing a voucher (discount, massage, restaurant, vacation, etc...). Also, flash sales sites tend to be more focused and give the appearance that you are dealing directly with the site owner; not a third party aggregating deals. So, to me, there are two types of daily deal sites. 1) Flash Sales (Steep and Cheap, NoMoreRack) 2) Voucher Sales (Groupon, Living Social) I feel like the physical goods space will always do better than a voucher-based deal site.
- dazzla 13y agoYes the physical goods deal sites did well before groupon and have continued to do so since. I run a mobile aggregation app that I launched before groupon. When local coupon deal sites came along I included them for completeness but the physical goods, online, flash sites have always done better for me. It's interesting to see groupon, etc move into the physical online flash deals.