Comments on: A (illegitimate) strategy for Groupon clones http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:34:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: John Erik http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-11271 John Erik Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:14:24 +0000 http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/#comment-11271 Sing Sing, sorry if you got the sense I was trying to imply that people are not buying at ubuyibuy with this with my post, I wasn't. If you look at ubuyibuy's sales, they are doing very well. Take a look at their recent deals page: http://www.ubuyibuy.com/HK/en/offers ??? http://www.ubuyibuy.com/HK/zh/offers. Sing Sing, sorry if you got the sense I was trying to imply that people are not buying at ubuyibuy with this with my post, I wasn’t.

If you look at ubuyibuy’s sales, they are doing very well. Take a look at their recent deals page: http://www.ubuyibuy.com/HK/en/offers ??? http://www.ubuyibuy.com/HK/zh/offers.

]]> By: John Erik http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-11270 John Erik Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:32 +0000 http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/#comment-11270 Hey Danny, Thanks for your comment here. I've been meaning to reply. You guys are doing well. Almost 100k Facebook fans now and consistently selling deals. It's interesting which ones sell 1000 and which sell just around 100. It seems to be related to price, but not entirely and obviously some have a cap. After hearing so many people in mainland talk about how to rig the system, I really was curious about the strategy. The longer deals on Friday is what got me. I keep hearing about more competitors, but I don't see you guys slowing down. Hope it keeps going well. The reason I was so interested and keeping track of the ones in HK is because a friend and I were looking at getting a group buying site together ourselves specifically targeting the gwai lo population. Hey Danny,

Thanks for your comment here. I’ve been meaning to reply.

You guys are doing well. Almost 100k Facebook fans now and consistently selling deals. It’s interesting which ones sell 1000 and which sell just around 100. It seems to be related to price, but not entirely and obviously some have a cap.

After hearing so many people in mainland talk about how to rig the system, I really was curious about the strategy. The longer deals on Friday is what got me.

I keep hearing about more competitors, but I don’t see you guys slowing down. Hope it keeps going well. The reason I was so interested and keeping track of the ones in HK is because a friend and I were looking at getting a group buying site together ourselves specifically targeting the gwai lo population.

]]> By: Sing_Sing http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-11157 Sing_Sing Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:59:26 +0000 http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/#comment-11157 45,000 fans but no one buying... I wonder why? Perhaps Danny have spend millions of $$$ building up a fanbase of "cheap jing".... $25 Yoshinoya bowl, $10 bubble tea, $5 pork floss. Not people I would want in my shop! 45,000 fans but no one buying… I wonder why? Perhaps Danny have spend millions of $$$ building up a fanbase of “cheap jing”…. $25 Yoshinoya bowl, $10 bubble tea, $5 pork floss. Not people I would want in my shop!

]]> By: Danny Yeung http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-11048 Danny Yeung Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:02:35 +0000 http://blog.think27.com/2010/07/a-illegitimate-strategy-for-groupon-clones/#comment-11048 Hi John, Great blog you have going on here. This is Danny Yeung with uBuyiBuy.com. I like to give you a reply to your post. In regards to us slowing down, certainly there has been some days in which the numbers are not where we would like it as in reality, we are all going through a testing phase of what type of deals work in Hong Kong and in Taiwan. What we have seen work for sites in the USA may not work for the Asia Market and vice versa. Ultimately, it depends on what the actual "deal" is which is no big secret. If the deal is good enough and the merchant is well known, people are going to buy. You mentioned the Italian deal which was ran on a Friday (ended up selling 168), our Friday deals run through the weekend, same concept as for all the big sites in the USA, groupon included. The reason for this is because most of the people which visit our site do so from work and the traffic to our site drastically decreases on the weekend and I'm sure this is the same case for any other market. I'm certain in the coming months you will still see big variations in terms of number of vouchers sold per day, such as today in which we sold out 500 Yoshinoya vouchers by lunch time. In regards to legitimacy, we are definitely legitimate as evidenced by our 45,000 fans in HK and 27,000 fans in Taiwan. We want to continue to give our fans the best deals every day which at the end of the day will create a win-win situation for all involved. Thank you Cheers, Danny Yeung Hi John,

Great blog you have going on here. This is Danny Yeung with uBuyiBuy.com. I like to give you a reply to your post. In regards to us slowing down, certainly there has been some days in which the numbers are not where we would like it as in reality, we are all going through a testing phase of what type of deals work in Hong Kong and in Taiwan. What we have seen work for sites in the USA may not work for the Asia Market and vice versa. Ultimately, it depends on what the actual “deal” is which is no big secret. If the deal is good enough and the merchant is well known, people are going to buy.

You mentioned the Italian deal which was ran on a Friday (ended up selling 168), our Friday deals run through the weekend, same concept as for all the big sites in the USA, groupon included. The reason for this is because most of the people which visit our site do so from work and the traffic to our site drastically decreases on the weekend and I’m sure this is the same case for any other market.

I’m certain in the coming months you will still see big variations in terms of number of vouchers sold per day, such as today in which we sold out 500 Yoshinoya vouchers by lunch time. In regards to legitimacy, we are definitely legitimate as evidenced by our 45,000 fans in HK and 27,000 fans in Taiwan. We want to continue to give our fans the best deals every day which at the end of the day will create a win-win situation for all involved.

Thank you

Cheers,

Danny Yeung

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