Dipping into that home equity line of credit to fund holiday gift purchases just doesn’t seem like such a good idea this year. As consumer spending dips, deals to entice purchasing should rise, right? Where there is fear there is opportunity. Tapping into recession fears, Yahoo Shopping just launched a new site in beta called Yahoo Deals that lists daily deals in different categories (computers, home & garden, clothing). It also offers online coupons, notices of storewide sales, and a place to browse through digital circulars.
The daily deals are syndicated from sites like Amazon, DealNews, and Woot! The coupons are from retailers such as Home Depot, Land’s End, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Sony Style. The storewide sales include deals at iTunes, Gamestop, Guess, and Sephora. (These are powered by iStorez, read our review). Digital coupon clippers can even save their coupons if they are signed in with a Yahoo account.
I can see a lot of people hunting for deals here this shopping season. You can browse by category, and rank deals by popularity or expiration. The one thing missing, though, is a search box to search for deals on specific items. I know this came out of Yahoo Shopping, but come on. That’s a bum deal.
It’s easy to bash them for some of their business decisions, but Yahoo is still coming up with some good ideas. This is one of them.
This is awesome!!! Thanks Yahoo!
A little too similar to http://www.fatwallet.com
They’ve been around for a long time too.
Two thumbs down!!!!
Hmm, this didn’t post the first time, sorry for dupes
Any dealsite is good, if you have the money to spend.
How about these sites?
- http://dealsidekick.com/
- http://dealigg.com/
Wow, Jerry is trying everything now – is this the best he can come up with?
Take a look at Jim Cramer bashing the heck outta Jerry:
http://equedia....s-Wall-of-Shame
Hilarious! I guess not so for Jerry…
So, what’s the difference between Jim Cramer and Michael Arrington?
Serious question, btw.
BensBargains.net is better for the Ghetto dogs. And it’s cash profitable unlike, well, some “other” blogs.
Smells like an act of desperation to me, especially with the Yahoo stock price hitting as low as it did today. Good riddance to Yahoo’s top execs.
Though I think the company is screwed unless Jerry Yang is forcibly removed from the controls, I have to give Yahoo an A for effort. They are putting ideas into the marketplace and perhaps one (or more) will catch on.
Just like to add that http://istorez.com provides the syndication for the Storewide Sales specials.
I think Yahoo needs to partner with Amazon or ebay or Craigslist. Also, the consumerist is for sale, its a great site, yahoo should buy it.
Yahoo has many different opportunities they are exploring this is another and I think it has been around for awhile. It will be interesting to see what they offer over the holidays.
Kevin
http://www.kidsdesk.net
I like it, anything to help people save some dough…we have our own site (dealarmy.com) that highlights these sites and more as well.
cheers!
There are even one employee companies that have this beat.
Dealstop.com has the deals these guys beat. They have the deals and they pay the people who find them.
I run the website http://www.dealstop.com
Just launched a new site feature where I split the affiliate commission with the DealStop users that post deals to the website. I think this is the first website of its kind. It’s a great way to make some extra cash this holiday season. Build a Christmas List Storelet and get paid commissions on the gifts people buy you!
Dave.
May I suggest http://absurdlycool.com as an alternative.
Thanks for the acknowledgement. We just launched our new site at http://www.istorez.com to deliver a ‘complete shopping experience’ – search Store Specials, search Products, personalize your Mall with your favorites and shop by Theme. In this economic climate shoppers are looking for the best value for their money.
It’s a neat idea. If you don’t know what to get someone in the first place, you’re still kind of screwed.
May I do the same thing as everyone around here? Let me link my site.
http://random.li/ I call it “fast-paced, crack S.W.A.T. team-style gift finding”. Heck, it even got “easy listening” music for the full shopping mall experience.
Cheers.
C.
Great… time to scrap my project and work on another one. Now all the big gorillas have entered my space. Just when I thought I was going to grow
Darn you Yahoo!!!!!!!
-Albert
http://www.cheapcheapcheap.com
Yahoo is desperate! I wonder whether anyone’s gonna put Yahoo up on the site as a best deal!
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It is interesting that yahoo decided to get into the coupons space. Its a crowded market now and there are companies that have been around for a long time. My favorites are http://www.couponcabin.com and http://www.earnedpenny.com.
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My favorite coupon code site that I use is http://www.dealslip.com. I know it’s a bit late for 2008, but I thought I’d share for the 2009 holidays. Happy Shopping!