AmazonLocal

Judging by the fact that Boise, ID is their only market right now, and the deals on both sites for Boise are different, I'd say it's independent of livingsocial

Re: AmazonLocal

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Post by g123g » Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 9:31 AM UTC

If Amazon succeeds with this now then this will be a really good example to disprove the concept of the first mover (or maybe in this case hundredth mover) advantage forever.

Re: AmazonLocal

#8

Post by riffraff » Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 9:47 AM UTC

oomkiller wrote: post #3

Looks like it's Boise only right now? Interesting place to start.

oh thanks, I thought it was just me.

FWIW, "enter city or zipcode" seems to only accept numbers, I imagine this is US only but I believe there are cities with letters in their names also there :)

Re: AmazonLocal

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Post by m4tt » Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 9:53 AM UTC

tienshiao wrote: post #5

Is this with or against livingsocial.com?

It's independent of LivingSocial but is aggregating deals from other companies (at the bottom of the deal it says with which company, in this case it's LS).

I'm guessing it is going to mix it up by offering deals from other services, whilst it builds up momentum to offer its own.

Re: AmazonLocal

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Post by jfager » Thu, Jun 02, 2011, 10:05 AM UTC

swombat wrote: post #4

How utterly shameless! It even looks just like GroupOn... that's... lame... that's all I can say.

One of the knocks on Groupon has always been how easy their product is to clone, and how the competition in the space will inevitably drive margins down.