AmazonLocal

[replicatorblog]

This is a surprisingly raw launch by a company like Amazon, especially considering they have a partnership with living social. You sign up and nothing is available? Even in a fairly large city like Boston? From a launch POV I'm just surprised they didn't wait til they had some inventory and then add it to your customized homepage. e.g. "Since you were looking at cookbooks would you like 50% of 1 $20 gift card at Temple Bar?"

[bennesvig]

Looks like it's only available in Boise: http://local.amazon.com/boise

[iamgoat]

Deal sites are all about achieving leads so shouldn't their MVP be a nice website with a way to show your interest by opting in? Amazon's brand will play a huge part in getting sign-ups, especially since they know our shopping habits.

[far33d]

It's unfortunate that "local" has come to mean "groupon clone". There's so much more to local commerce.

[g123g]

If Amazon succeeds with this now then this will be a really good example to disprove the concept of the first mover (or maybe in this case hundredth mover) advantage forever.

[simon_weber]

Can't say I ever really agreed with the first mover advantage. Looking back, it's usually someone who comes later who really "gets it right", now that they have the perspective that the first guy laid out for them. As a first mover, you've got to be constantly changing to keep up with these newcomers.

[oomkiller]

Looks like it's Boise only right now? Interesting place to start.

[CWuestefeld]

It comes up pre-populated with my address, presumably because I'm logged into Amazon. But the design doesn't seem to account for me wanting, say, a coupon for lunch in the city where I work.

[riffraff]

oh thanks, I thought it was just me.

FWIW, "enter city or zipcode" seems to only accept numbers, I imagine this is US only but I believe there are cities with letters in their names also there :)

[zacharypinter]

So we've got LivingSocial, Groupon, Google Offers, and now AmazonLocal. Am I the only one not seeing the point of these coupon sites?

I suppose Groupon's required email address turned me off to the genre early on.

[drx]

>Am I the only one not seeing the point of these coupon sites?

http://www.evanmiller.org/golden-football.html

[tienshiao]

Is this with or against livingsocial.com?

[m4tt]

It's independent of LivingSocial but is aggregating deals from other companies (at the bottom of the deal it says with which company, in this case it's LS).

I'm guessing it is going to mix it up by offering deals from other services, whilst it builds up momentum to offer its own.

[kentbuckle]

Judging by the fact that Boise, ID is their only market right now, and the deals on both sites for Boise are different, I'd say it's independent of livingsocial

[arunsharma]

Doesn't make sense though ! I would prefer this concept if they have it on the amazon.com homepage. I would hate to give my mail address. I have a feeling this was done in response to Google Wallet.

[lurker19]

After a roaring success bringing mail order catalogs online, and then bringing books themselves online, the followup is... ValuPak online? USA needs more interesting problems to solve.

[swombat]

How utterly shameless! It even looks just like GroupOn... that's... lame... that's all I can say.

[jfager]

One of the knocks on Groupon has always been how easy their product is to clone, and how the competition in the space will inevitably drive margins down.