The giants have woken up and after Rediff’s deal site, comes the launch of TimesDeal, which is currently available in 6 cities (NCR/Bangalore/Mumbai/Pune/Kolkata and Chennai).
And like Rediff, you get deal voucher on email as well as SMS.
The deals, it seems are more focused towards the regular F&B segment (plus the ever popular, SPA?) and it really is difficult to spot a differentiator here.
I wonder why companies like Times Internet didn’t explore integration with its ecommerce services (i.e. sell products), i.e. augment its own division instead of creating a new category (in the company), i.e. of chasing deals (just like 100 other sites in India).
What’s your opinion? Is this just another noise, with no real differentiator? (also see: Times of India Launches Justdial Competitor, Times Infoline).
Recommended Read: What’s On(line) in India? [ A Comparison with US Market]
Hat tip: Deepankar from Dealmandi
[This is an exclusive story.]
Now we need a good deal aggregator service.
agree with dhruv. where are the deal aggregators?
Yes deal aggregation is very much required with so many players around. We are making an honest attempt to achieve this in http://www.dealmandi.com .
Pingback: Indiatimes Launches A Second Deals Site – TimesDeal; An Analysis - MediaNama
Unless the large player like Times & Rediff put in Focus, Team, Marketing & Introduce product innovation they will remain the runner’s up or the also-runs.
These players have not been know to make a significant impact in the past, in categories like jobs(nukri.com is far bigger) Marriages (shaadi.com is far better)and 100′s of other categories. This is what gives a chance to start ups for making their work.
let us see how the deal category emerges in the future.
Regards,
Meera Girdhar
Nurture Talent Academy
This category doesn’t need a biggy anymore. Biggies need this category to stay relevant.
Kudos to startups for cracking this category, much before the biggies.
Interesting, neither TimesDeal nor Rediff’s contact us page seems to be working right now.
Oops, they seem to be up now. Sorry about that, admin please delete the comment.
All they have to offer is one deal in Mumbai. Doesnt seem to be a very interesting site