Uk Group Buying

People seem to mix up the classic type of coupon web site where it is basically a list of money off vouchers, with the newer group buying concept. I will explain the group buying concept here.

The group buying concept is simply a method for a group of people to get together and buy some kind of item or service in bulk. This bulk buy means that savings can be negotiated. If you think of an individual going into a restaurant for a meal, that individual does not actually have any negotiating power so they'll struggle to get any discounts (unless of course they offer to keep returning or unless they have an acquaintance who can help them out).

Compare this to a large group of people who wish to make a booking for a birthday meal. This group of 30 or so are much more likely to negotiate a better deal as the restaurants could do with the massive potential profits from such a massive group. Not only does the restaurant get the chance to make a profit from the birthday meal, they get to make an impression on 30 people and possibly gain some new regulars so it really is worth giving a discount in order to have this opportunity.

By using a group buying web site, different people who desire to make a purchase are put into a big group so that they can be eligible to a discount.

The way that the majority of the group buying web sites are run goes like this: They go to a potential supplier, like a restaurant and negotiate a discount that the restaurant could offer a group of a certain size. They also bargain for the cut of the price that they get to keep if they can deliver a group of the decided size. Once this is all agreed, the web site puts this deal out to the shoppers, the customers pay out for the offer and once the decided number is achieved the deal ends. The site then pays the seller the cut of the money that was decided and then the shoppers are free to use the deal from the supplier.

The retailers profits are reduced in a couple of ways. The 1st is the discount given and the 2nd is the cut that they will need to pay the group buying website. This can be worth it though as the seller got a group of new customers that they now have the ability to impress.

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