A nice idea, but they missed an opportunity to make money now. Allowing users to include their affiliate codes in the links they post does give them an incentive to post new deals, but Clipfire doesn’t make anything from it. They should have implemented a system like Fatwallet’s Cash Back program where they would use their own affiliate codes but split revenues with posters. This way there would still be an incentive for users to post new deals and Clipfire would actually make some money too. Clipfire could still implement such a system, but it’s something they would need to do before they have a lot of users because such a change at that point would likely upset some of them.

I disagree James. The goal here is to drive usage of the service. Power posters are essential to building up a critical mass of deals.

Hey Mike have you seen Dealazon.com? It uses Amazon’s web services to find the best deals on amazon, and then lets you search and sort through them on the site or via RSS.

Disclosure - I built it -
http://www.dealazon.com/

Check out slick deals (slickdeals.net). It’s not really web 2.o-ish, but has great deals from a larger user base.

Seeing that you mentioned to “Think Digg” I felt you should know that Digg has had this feature for months.

Check it out…

http://digg.com/deals

Fortino - Out!

Doesn’t encouraging people to include referals end up encouraging people to submit lots of spammy free i-pod deals and stuff that arn’t actually ‘deals’?

Interesting, I built http://www.discountwatcher.com/ a couple of years ago. It is a services that scours the Internet for the latest discounted items and then organizes it’s finds by category, brand and store. All RSS enabled of course. I’ve been working on a 2.0 version of the service, in some ways it looks like I’ve been scooped by Clipfire :-(.

I agree with James J - this model makes no business sense. If you’re going to create a spammer’s haven, you might as well earn some cash for your trouble.

Revenue sharing is a fine idea, but revenue gifting is a waste. Surely the Clipfire peep/s could parse the URLs and insert their affiliate IDs 50% of the time to make it sharing instead of gifting?

Clipfire is really doing great job allowing users to post links. They must be having idea to implement their own affliate links in future.

Also see another deal site. http://www.dealsinus.com

I don’t think the point is to try to parse affiliate URLs… That would make no sense. Look it how Google started. If ClipFire can get a good userbase then they can worry about revenue later… I’m sure they have thought of how, I can.

Marc, you are right on target. The users provided the content, they deserve the credit.

Clipfire should earn its revenue from the service (aggregation, searching, etc.). The Google association is fits perfectly.

Kevin Carey
http://www.clipfire.com/

As a startup Deals & Coupon site trying to gain more traffic, I like the idea of Clipfire. It allows us to get more exposure to our site.

We try and post only our best deals there, because it all comes down to credibility.

“Daddyo” Dan
http://www.daddyodeals.com

I have been keeping an eye on Clipfire; however, it just hasn’t taken off yet. It seems like a really great idea. A search engine for deals sounds great!

That is right. The user base just isn’t there. I have tried a few popular keywords and none came clipped.

Looks great. its good feature for clipping the deals

Similar site: http://www.boddit.com. No clips but deals comparison engine is better.

Great site specially for ecom sites when your are selling different products and want to compare the prices…

The above thought is smart and doesn’t require any further addition. It’s perfect thought from my side.

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This is great site specially for your are selling different products. It looks great. Tell me something more about it. I am eager to known about it.
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