Comments on: Hungry for online deals

By: SuperFlier

SuperFlier — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:19:00 +0000

http://www.ixigo.com is a travel deal aggregator.

By: Guru

Guru — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:51:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing information on deals. Here is a great site for deals, coupons http://www.elivedeals.com.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:10:00 +0000

Take a look at http://www.discountsindia.com

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Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:12:13 +0000

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By: vishal mehta

vishal mehta — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:10:53 +0000

hey even http://www.ndbay.com is one of it kinds

By: Madhur

Madhur — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:00:24 +0000

Nidhi,

First of all, god job on setting up the site. You guys are the first and probably the only site so far thats aggregating online deals from Indian ecommerce (retail) sites. I hope your efforts of scaling up the operations yield good results: both in terms of getting more data as well as traffic.

Agree with you that bigger merchants will soon realize the ROI in giving feeds and getting CPC based traffic. Affiliate marketing is a big part of the online industry in the US and there is no reason why it would not work in India.

Would love to hear updates from you in the future.

Madhur

By: Nidhi Modi

Nidhi Modi — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:28:52 +0000

Dear Vivek, Madhur and Nishant,

Thanks you so much for writing about us. You guys are going great with ileher and one can see that from ileher’s alexa ranking.

Crawling might not be a feasible solution as our main aim is to publish the best deal for the consumers instead of all the available deals. So I guess human intervention is required.
However one can invest in creating intelligent crawlers and come up with a deal comparison site. But whats the ROI?

I completely agree to you that we cannot scale up unless we automate the process. We have started asking for feeds from the merchants and it seems to be working with small sellers but not yet with large merchants. I am sure they will be doing the same soon.

Vivek, special thanks to you for sharing your wisdom with us. We had many key points to take home from the meeting and we are diligently working on them.

Regards,
Nidhi

By: vivek garg

vivek garg — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:47:48 +0000

Vishal. Thanks for sharing the information with us. I am wondering how is this going to scale in longer run when you want to add multiple merchants.

Did you go to these merchants asking for feeds? Anyplans of crawling etc ? How was their response ?

Vivek

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:14:21 +0000

Being a great fan of online deals, one of the things that I have realised is that there is alwaya a better deal available somewhere on some site. This is where sites like allindiadeals.com have a bigger impact. With a daily update of the best possible deals, most of the times their deals are the best of the lot.

The online user base in India is increasing at a brisk rate and given the number of Indians in countries like US and UK, the importance of deals and online shopping is spreading with word of mouth in India.

The area where these sites might be able to make a bigger impact if by providing personalized services so that users do not have to search for wat they are looking for but these sites alert them every time something of their interest is available for less.

By: vishal mehta

vishal mehta — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:48:14 +0000

hi ,
no this is not automated,infact our team searches thru ebay for cool and unique product,best deals and post them on indbay

http://www.indbay.com