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How Deal Sites/Forums Got Started, Their Buisness Models and Why They Are Successful
Submitted by kai on Tue, 2008-12-30 20:26. ::
As I recalled, deal sites first started around 1999, 2000 during the dot com period. Everything was crazy back then. Retailers had a lot of glitches(like stackable coupons) where people could easily exploit.
There was anandtech's hot deal forum, then bensbargains.net , techbargains.com etc
but admins on anandtech started banning coupon posting. Then Fatwallet started. Whenever some practices get banned in one site, other sites will appear to support the practices.
Tags: deal fatwallet bensgarins techbargains business_model vc funding shopping slickdeals anandtech
