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These companies are popping up all over the place. I’m guessing the consumer will go to whichever company has the best deals. I still love Groupon and think their is enough room in the market for a couple of these guys.

looks like crapola, even the logo looks like it’s taking a crap.

I just got invited to a skateboarding version of groupon called Seshday.

Groupola, Groupon are these sites named under the influence and whilst frequenting a swingers club?

It’s a great and simple idea, I’m no balloonist but I’m sure to sign-up for a transatlantic trip via hot air and with only one book to read.

What would be interesting to know is if Groupola just copied Groupon or whether it’s been in development for sometime.

This guy is killing it in the voucher code space. If anybody is going to make it work, I imagine he is. A great position to leverage his existing relationships too I bet.

Agreed. Having a large number of clones is actually better for Groupon since few will be able to garner the resources to create a competitive site. Groupon has raised over $35 million making it a formidable startup, unless it blows through that $35 million quickly.

And that doesn’t happen in the Internet world, right?

I am still surprised with a business model where you pay loads of money to acquire customers who commit to buying a product and that you can afford to turn them down if not enough people commit to the deal…defies the laws of ROI…

Groupola…

Well all I can say is that name is just too close to Groupon.

I’m sure Groupon’s lawyers will have a field day with this one!

@Adam Martin I’m pretty sure they copied Groupon as Groupon have been live for over a year now. Plus some of the site is a bit shabby here and there.

There must be about 10 of these collective buying sites in London alone.

http://www.wowcher.com
http://www.vouchtogether.co.uk

I wont name them all

Surely there cant be enough space in the market for all of them. This is getting ridiculous

@adrien – but look at the number of purchases required for these deals to tip – they are usually somewhere around 20-50 purchases – hardly a challenge. The tipping point is merely a marketing gimmick to get the deal going viral (retweets, status updates). I’ve been a groupon subscriber in the states for a while now, and i think i have seen one daily deal not go through.

http://www.snippa.co.uk/
http://www.wowcher.co.uk
http://www.mypiggyback.com/

wow this space is getting very busy!

Haha I love how Techcrunch always says “Groupon clone”….there were many versions of group buying before Groupon.

Granted Groupon got the big exposure with the 30mill investment but please don’t claim that any new service is ripping off the idea.

I scout backcountry.coms (not a plug) deal an hour site all the time and they were operating before Groupon went big.

To me it shows Techcrunch has a bias towards Groupon in their writing.

ok so just looking over groupola again – yep this is for sure a “clone” as the creative is pretty much the same.

My statement still stands that Groupon is not the birth place of group buying….

There’s no bias. But Groupon is currently the best known and well funded, so it’s a useful and inclusive point of reference. That’s all.

Not impressed. Very amature website

This company seems to just take whats been done and do it the same.

They also seem to have a bad reputation among other affiliates if you do a quick google search for Mr Pearson, you will see.

I’ve only just recovered from a nasty case of Groupola by using some antibiotics I got from the GUM clinic.

Another one will launch in 10 days. It is http://likebees.com/.

They added style to the whole group-buying concept. I had the opportunity to see their site because they were looking for an investment.
Their design is a step above the other.

I have not invested because the segment is too busy in UK. But I wish them good luck.

And I have seen the stage two of their project. It is really innovative.

And what of Paul Allen funded Mercata from back in the day?

I have such fond memories of my ridiculously cheap 32″ CRT TV with free shipping delivered straight to my dorm room….right before they went belly-up.

threw up in my mouth when I saw “groupola”. take Groupon, take out the “n” and add “la”…seriously guys, at least try to look different! #fail

I tried http://www.mycitydeal.co.uk last week. They had a great Starbucks deal on. Get a 10£ voucher for 1£ only! Definitely worth checking out!

[...] will feature a deal in eight cities Jump to Comments A new website launches in the UK today reports TechCrunch that uses “the power of group-buying to save consumers up to 90% off the best things to do, see, [...]

You do realize that one of the employees at TechCrunch is married to a Groupon VP… just to justify your “bias”

So Groupola’s site has been down for the last 7 hours…

Looks like someone has caught up with that Mark weasel Pearson.

what happened with mercata anyhow?

Hey Matt,

Care to share what the stage two of the like bees product was? Thanks

Danny

Jon, your obviously an idiot. They seem to have done their homework. Their site is soothing colours, unlike poor clone wowcher in loud abnoxious colours, they take your details on their EV SSL secured page, and don’t take you off to some third party like lamo wowcher.
If I was to do this I’d do it right like groupola, not wrong like wowcher

Any other copycat?

The question is why not? If there is demand, there is business. Unless Groupon is take the marketing entirely, why give consumer a better choice?

The biggest winner has to be the end user that enjoy the saving and the business owner that receive business. If it’s all about making Groupon rich, they won’t last long.

Get ready for a true WIN-WIN Local shopping site that makes everyone win. SmartLocalShoppers.com

We license some products with Disney-Pixar and I have already heard they are getting the lawyers onto the Grouploa one eyed green monster logo as its very similar to Mike from Monster Inc, I would not fancy Google on my ass.

Danny,

I am not allowed to say anything, sorry.
But if you are an investor I am sure that if you contact the founders directly they will tell you more.
The email is on their work-in-progress page.

Good luck.

Pete:

“they are getting the lawyers onto the Groupola one eyed green monster logo as its very similar to Mike from Monster Inc”

- does that means that all of these http://images.google.com/images?q=one%20eyed%20monster are breaking Disney/Pixar copyright? It is so childish to presume that use of simple word / characteristic without any other association is copyright infringement. It’s almost like saying that yahoo.com is breaking copyright of hoo.com. Get real.

“I would not fancy Google on my ass.”

Why would google be on Groupola’s ass? Is it the “G” at the begining of the word, does that breaches Google’s copyright? Almost the same logic as with Pixar…

I have personally bought “Haircut, finish + some other stuff” from senior stylist in Soho for £20 deal from Groupola for my girlfriend, I think it’ great bargain. Keep them coming.

Agreed. I thought of the same and imho, a deal should be made fit to the number of people that signup. I also don’t like this ‘go to website’ for a different purchasing method.

That’s why a week ago we built http://www.syncfu.com which is a widget for any website, and drops price with each new person in the queue.

Difficult to get on TC though, wonder why. Well, anyway, we’re building some special offers now with it. One webpage, one deal per month, no matter where the person is within the country/ies.

Any comments are welcome.

Yep there hair cut was a great deal! Nearly as good as when Wowcher ran the deal for only £13

I would imagine that Groupola can only sell what the retailer has to offer. So I wouldn’t blame Groupola for be £7 more expensive, blame the retailer for not giving to Groupola as cheaply!

Now anyone may do group buying on their own website.

http://www.syncfu.com

Disclosure: I am one of the founders.

Its not that simple – getting an Internet merchant account for this business model is very hard. You are selling vouchers which the banks hate

Came across this Facebook group the other day, the official group buying Facebook group!! All the group buying deals are posted on the group buying Facebook wall

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=330497977485&ref=search&sid=100000831318208.1524859653..1

lmao i think all this is very sweet, groupola is going to be huge, mark pearson has more than enough resources to make Groupola the biggest thing in the U.K, My Voucher Codes is Number one why wouldnt he do the same with this, I think all the people who seem to have very negative views should most definatly “not hate the player! – hate the game!” as your clearly not very good at it yourself!……… COME ON GROUPOLA!!!!

does anyone know about comeletsbuy.com ? seems like complete different website and for a change seems like a startup with no major funding like big guys but a well thought through engine… seems like someone is defying the odds ! kuddos…

One more for luck

London’s Best

http://www.LondonsBest.com/

The idea of this group buying website is that we feature multiple deals so Londoners have more of a selection.

I can see so many unfounded negative, almost childish, comments about this service. Now I’m neither an advocate nor a hater, however I do think consumers will appreciate this site regardless or whether or not it’s an original idea.

Fact is consumers will not care about it being a ‘clone’ everything gets copied online these days we just have to accept that. If a company wishes to take an idea, emulate it and improve it that can only be a good thing for the end user.

I agree with James:
“mark pearson has more than enough resources to make Groupola the biggest thing in the U.K, My Voucher Codes is Number one why wouldnt he do the same with this”

If the guy has the resources make this the biggest and best…let him, everyone’s a winner.

So funny there are more than on clone in Germany.
Check out http://www.cooledeals.de
From what I heard they are going to be starting in the UK and France soon

“Sounds familiar? Yep, it’s yet another Groupon clone.”

Yep, that does sound familiar. This guy has a good track record of copying other people’s ideas.

All these Groupon clones… The Groupon business model is fantastic, but I think group buying will become more of a feature that any site (e.g. community sites) implement as one of many revenue streams, rather than an opportunity for stand-alone businesses in their own right. More discussion in http://www.keplarllp.com/blog/2010/03/send-in-the-clones-why-your-community-site-should-add-groupon-style-collective-buying-features

I am a huge advocate of group buying and I was very happy to come across http://www.dealromeo.co.uk on twitter.

Looks like a UK group buying aggregator site.

An excellent resource for group buying fans!

This is great news! the more sites we have available the better for the consumers!

Just noticed UK Daily Deals as well – http://www.ukdailydeals.co.uk

just a wild guess… you’re eastern european, aren’t you…?

Yes, South-Eastern European by origin, Italian in the heart =) Why such a question?

Groupola are a small company with a small team – they have a good marketing team who are starting their deals off with high numbers to show they are doing well, when they are probably only selling 25-50% of the number they display.

There have been quite a few of these companies who have went out of business recently… I don’t see Groupon or mycitydeal going down that avenue as they are so large with massive investment and hundreds of employees making it work.

You got to love Mr Pearson, of Groupola ( the discount copy site) the guy has the skin of a rhino:) Just read on the affiliates4u forum about the tricks he has played against other affiliates, merchants etc etc etc etc

D

D: Guy posting under “name” “Discount Vouchers” pointing to website discountvouchers.co.uk surely is the unbiased voice to judge Mark Pearson, owner of myvouchercodes.co.uk of course… I bet Mr. Pearson is laughing himself to sleep every night as his competition is too busy slaging him off while he is making money. I find that hilarious.

I have signed up to three group buying websites: mycitydeal, groupola and likebees. I found these “group buying website wars” one of the best things that happened to average joe like me since ebay. So many great deals, I am kidding you not, I must have saved £200 in a month on 5-6 deals alone. Bring it on!

[...] year, aggregates the best offers available from 12 of the UK’s group buying sites. These include Groupola, My City Deal, Scrum Buy, Wowcher, Deal Bunch, Viva Voucher, KGB Deals, Wahanda, Snippa, [...]

please stand by for the truth about groupola and markco media, i just wrote it all out but then my computer crashed and dont have time to write it again but wach this space, small things include the non experienced sales manager getting removed from the building for comsuming a whole litle bottle of sambucca and in excess of £300 worth of a popular class A substance and the truth about groupola’s “deals”

[...] is only the latest in a long, long string of Groupon-like sites to launch recently, but it’s in a better position than most. [...]

David, thanks for the info. Although it won’t have any affect on whether Groupola is successful or not I suspect you’re a disgruntled former employee so it’s your word against theirs.

This thread is about the company not individuals they employ

Groupola seems to be kicking up the gear and Groupon is taking over mycitydeal… alot of changes in this marketplace!!!

[...] commerce site Groupon is on fire. Everywhere I go, people are talking about it or trying to copy it. The Chicago-based startup just hired a big gun. Rob Solomon is joining as the company’s [...]

I wonder if anyone was able to get an iPod in the latest Groupla PR stunt – I mean offer!

[...] list and create name recognition for the group buying site, appears to have somewhat backfired. The UK Groupon-clone has been running a promotion offering a limited number of its email subscribers an unlocked iPhone [...]

I’ve already made a formal complaint to ASA and they will investigate Groupola, 10 Yatis PR&MKT company and Mark Pearson. Mark Pearson posed as one of winning buyers of the iphone on the fan page in the Facebook- when questioned by other FB users – his profile was deleted from the Groupola fan page minutes later. I denounced 10 Yatis and Mark Pearson in the Groupola’s Facebook page and they blocked my comments. ASA is very good to investigate scam and fraud cases within days. Groupola needs to prove that they have 200 definite buyers. I’m now blocked from Groupola’s Facebook page – so much for freedom of speech and shopping!

Groupola = Fail.

Another Groupon clone? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Thank you so much, been looking everywhere for this!

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Just came across another deal voucher site – Top Town Deals. They seem to have partnerships with radio stations!

some good deals : )

http://www.toptowndeals.com

and here a new one:
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I’ve already made a formal complaint to ASA and they will investigate Groupola, 10 Yatis PR&MKT company and Mark Pearson. Mark Pearson posed as one of winning buyers of the iphone on the fan page in the Facebook- when questioned by other FB users – his profile was deleted from the Groupola fan page minutes later. I denounced 10 Yatis and Mark Pearson in the Groupola’s Facebook page and they blocked my comments. ASA is very good to investigate scam and fraud cases within days. Groupola needs to prove that they have 200 definite buyers. I’m now blocked from Groupola’s Facebook page – so much for freedom of speech and shopping!

I see the ASA have just filed a public listing!
they will be investigating this case within the next 28 days so should make some good news.

There a sites like this popping up all over the place, we have just started a discount code site but have now realised how strong and huge this sector really is, anyway.. please let us know what you think.

You can start your own groupon clone too. Currently this is not a problem. There are just 2 things you will need: a script that will power your website and deals. If there’s no groupon clone site running for your city then it is likely that you’re sitting on a gold mine. As for the script I recommend Couponic: http://uniprogy.com

More press coverage for Mark Pearson. He certainly does get his sites noticed lol. You’ve got to give him credit for being no 1 voucher code (at the moment!!) and he is staying up to date with a group buying site too.

i definitely recommend couponic with groupon clone only at http://uniprogy.com/

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i definitely would recommend couponic with groupon clone only at http://uniprogy.com/

Just to let everyone know that Groupola no longer exists–it has been “absorbed” into My Vouchers.

i’m really satisfied with couponic only at http://uniprogy.com a groupon clone.

if you want to buy a couponic why not try http://uniprogy.com a groupone clone a .great script at a great price.

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Now New York Times also planned to launch their own groupon clone website this month. Big companies are looking at daily deals. Big challenge for Groupon starts now.
http://ndot.in/products/ndotdeals-opensource-groupon-clone/

Does anyone know on which platform is it built on? With groupon clone ready scripts such as Couponic it is extremely easy to build a groupon clone site. Full access to source and a various easy to install modules, even more deals sites are going to launch in the near future. Multilingual option available too for free Check here http://uniprogy.com

[...] which originally launched as a Groupon-clone in the UK but has since pivoted to become a daily deal aggregator, has been found by the UK’s [...]

A good page that serves as a daily deal search engine and offers the user a great overview on the market is http://www.coupobox.co.uk. Instead of checking dozens of websites, you just check one site and save time and money.

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Groupon Clone is definitely so popular these days. A large number of people want to set up their Groupon clone websites but do not know how to choose a good groupon clone script. Here I recommend a Joomla!-Powered Groupon Clone Script which has full functions and two styles-Groupon and LivingSocial Style. You can refer to http://joomabc.com for more details.

Congrats
Mark!!! This was your best idea for having a new website. And to Steve, thank
you for posting this article that is really updating us on the change.

Does anyone know on which platform is it built on? With groupon clone
ready scripts such as Couponic it is extremely easy to build a groupon
clone site. Full access to source and a various easy to install modules,
even more deals sites are going to launch in the near future. Groupola = Fail.

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