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No sales, but Scoopon gives away thousands of Hungry Jack discount coupons

Notwithstanding widespread reports to the contrary no-one  paid even a single cent for the Hungry Jack discount coupons available at Scoopon this week. They were never on sale and no-one paid Scoopon anything to download the coupons.  All they did was download them in considerable numbers (600,000+ at last count). And why not?  Hungry Jacks

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US group buying sites, Groupon, Living Social are Australian market-leaders

American owned group-buying sites, Groupon and Living Social have emerged as the Australian market leaders according to a new report from market researchers, Telsyte. Telsyte said earlier this week that the Australian group buying market had total sales worth $498 million in 2011. It said that, since it began in 2010, group buying in Australia

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Group buying, daily deals market hits $AUD158million in September quarter

Living Social (Australia) CEO, Colin Fabig

A new research report has estimated the Australian daily deals/group-buying/coupon sites market to have grown 28% in the last three months with deals sold worth more than $158million. Sydney based market researchers, Telsyte, found that the top 8 sites – (LivingSocial, Scoopon, Groupon, Spreets, Cudo, Deals.com.au, OurDeal, and Ouffer)

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Mismanaged offers at group buying sites could seriously damage your business.

Randall Deer, MD Rewards Corp

Australian group-buying websites have sold more than 300,000 room nights since March 2011, according to Randall Deer, managing director of the company behind Groupbuyingescapes.com. But travel businesses looking to take advantage of the popularity of the group-buying craze should also be aware that mismanaged offers could seriously damage their

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Top ten tips for getting the most from group-buying sites

Don’t let the count-down clock panic you into buying without checking the terms and conditions. Buy as local as possible, and buy together with your friends and family. They’re the three top tips for getting the most value out of group-buying sites according to Colin Fabig, CEO of LivingSocial Australia and New Zealand. “The best

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