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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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March 15th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: News | Leave a comment

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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February 9th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: News | Leave a comment

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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October 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: News | Leave a comment

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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September 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: News | Leave a comment

Catch of the Day sells 40% share for $80million – Australia’s largest ecommerce sector investment

An $80million investment in the Leibovich brothers CatchoftheDay business announced last week may well be the single largest investment in Australia’s ecommerce sector to date. It has certainly attracted a lot of attention, not least because the investing consortium includes one Australia’s richest men  -  gambling mogul, James Packer. According to a statement released by

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May 26th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: News | One comment
 
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