Comments on: “Digg for Deals” Up for Sale on eBay

By: ankur

ankur — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:54:32 +0000

GreedyBargains.com is for sale on ebay : http://cgi.ebay.com/GreedyBarg.....dZViewItem

Their stats looks better than trezr.com and looks like they have been making money.

By: Trezr Sold for $30k on eBay | Bargain Blog

Trezr Sold for $30k on eBay | Bargain Blog — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:16:02 +0000

[...] you actually follow the comments in the TechCrunch coverage, you’ll notice that there are simply too many bargain sharing sites around. One might [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:58:53 +0000

It’s sold for $30K! amazing! Now I wonder how much the top two sites in this area: http://www.dealspl.us and http://www.dealigg.com worth

By: Trezr sold on eBay for over $30K at ProBargainHunter.com

Trezr sold on eBay for over $30K at ProBargainHunter.com — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:56:33 +0000

[...] July 5 with initial price of $1.00 and gradually attracted bids over the 6 days period (I am sure this coverage at Techcrunch helped to float the [...]

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:54:29 +0000

There is one more: http://www.dealego.com

By: bdb

bdb — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:45:44 +0000

Interesting for people to list all of the “competitors”. A quick visit to compete to see what their stats say…

Most sites mentioned in comments above are not even on the radar. Those that are:

trezr- 1,225 people
agentb- 695 people
clipfire- 16,461 people

No wonder #24 didn’t feel the need to refute #25’s erroneous claims above.

By: Affiliate marketing 2.0 needs innovation - not clones | Final Tag

Affiliate marketing 2.0 needs innovation - not clones | Final Tag — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:17:35 +0000

[...] Reports that a web 2.0 digg clone for deals - Trezr.com is selling on [...]

By: John Brooks Pounders

John Brooks Pounders — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:15:58 +0000

I have been working on my site, saveupwards.com for about a year and half while finishing up my ad degree. If anyone is interested in sharing deals on the net please come! We only do deals, you can associate coupons and track rebated. Right now its just labor of love, no money coming in yet! I just added a facebook app, search for “share deals”.
JBP

By: TechGlutton

TechGlutton — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:16:05 +0000

Another one is http://www.shlogging.com/

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:32:01 +0000

Interesting site. Similar but broader focus than Deal Locker, a new social coupon sharing startup I have been tracking.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:21:12 +0000

Damn, props to electricpulp for making a gorgeous site.

By: Shambhu

Shambhu — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:07:39 +0000

It took me about 10 minutes to figure out that Trezr meant treasure, despite the logo. To me it reads more like “traser” as in laser.

If it’s months of work, it seems like a “bargain” at this point. Wonder if someone has posted it in Trezr itself.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:43:41 +0000

Nice Kevin by using that other domain name in your name I almost missed the fact that you work for clipfire. Still cool site I like clipfire.

By: Goob

Goob — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:42:09 +0000

Ugh, sites that covertly tie in links to CJ, Linkshare, etc. only end up pissing users off. When they see 10 links to free “whatever” and yet 5 of them actually send you to a site where you can’t get something for free (which most CJ and other such affiliate sites send you to), the user decides it’s not worth crawling through the crap to find the good stuff.

That said, it’s pretty nifty that they can automatically monetize user submitted links. As long as the new links don’t promise something falsely, I think this would be a decent buy for anybody with the time and resources to promote it. Anybody who thinks there isn’t money to be made off people who wants deals and free stuff is sorely mistaken, as my site proves otherwise.

By: Sung

Sung — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:16:23 +0000

Clipfire is simply a search engine. Trezr is a social network hence the title of this post, ‘Digg for Deals’. http://www.agentb.com and http://www.dealigg.com and http://www.dealpl.us are the closest competitors since they are Digg clones.

By: Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:03:36 +0000

Clipfire.com is probably the closest competitor to this site. In addition to being able to submit deals and vote them up, it also has a comprehensive search engine, searching deals from hundreds of other sites - including the big ones like FatWallet and Ben’s Bargains.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:03:20 +0000

Ebay exits are for losers…IMHO

Any marketing ability or networking ability and they could get a much better price. Although I suppose that is why they are selling instead of enjoying a nice payday for their efforts. It’s a shame because the site is very innovative and has a great look.

Nice site + Crappy marketing = eBay exit

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:35:44 +0000

This site has huge potential.

By: Sung

Sung — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:26:31 +0000

Nice site - I think http://www.agentb.com has gotten more traction in this space…

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:18:48 +0000

I’m sure they realized that their traffic figures weren’t very high, but you guys seem to be overlooking their platform. The website automatically ‘monetizes’ outgoing links, meaning they parse affiliate IDs automatically into any outgoing link so as to get credit. This is the first I’ve seen/heard of this happening.

They’ve got a very cool engine and are looking to sell their platform more so than their database of users. They did say the possibilities were endless, and I’m sure they were headed down the affiliate revenue sharing route (like fatwallet.com’s cash back program), it really wouldn’t have been that difficult ot implement.

Go Web 2.0!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:12:03 +0000

I always thought this site was better anyway.

http://dealspl.us/

By: sputnick

sputnick — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:17:06 +0000

Will people never learn? This is a site for cheapskates, and you can’t make money off cheapskates, neither directly nor indirectly. The whole concept, of a startup which will profit from cheapskate traffic, is flawed to begin with.

This project would have been great as an open-source, wiki, community type project for the cheapskate community. But as a money-making startup? Forget about it.

By: secreeeeet

secreeeeet — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:36:14 +0000

4,000 visits/month? That’s abot 130 per day and they are not even uniques. That site is not worth much.

By: Kewtr

Kewtr — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:05:40 +0000

Neil - Agree, but at the same time there’s almost no excuse for the only 4,000 visitors a month, and even with one or two people you could submit content yourself until there was some traction.

I really don’t get what they were doing, it’s like the site got done and everyone expected it to just launch itself.

Ben of Bensbargains.net should buy it, keep doing what he does anyway posting deals daily, and it’ll take off in no time without any real extra work on his part until he can stop working every day.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:56:55 +0000

Agree with Neil, although the buyer could easily focus it however they’d want