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Comment by unohoo | Hacker News Reader

Wont this dilute the deal a day buzz ?

My only guess is that they have so many merchants waiting in the queue that this is an avenue for these merchants to get their deal out.

The only problem is that for the people buying the groupons. I only try to limit myself to 1 a week since that it all that I can afford right now. If more groupons are available, I probably wouldn't buy more unless it was a killer deal.

But the assumption is that you're more likely to find something of utmost worthiness to spend your money on than before.

I don't have a particular schedule for my Groupon purchases, but if I see something convenient (that I would have bought anyway) or cool (that I wouldn't have bought except for the Groupon -- window purchases, basically,) I buy them.

This means that in the past month or so, I bought a Groupon for Baltimore Coffee & Tea, which means I got my $34.95 a pound Kona coffee for roughly $17, and flying lessons, which is something I've pondered before, but never pulled the trigger on.

Half off is a fine motivator.

I'd be happy to spend more money with Groupon if there were more interesting offers being presented, and upping the quantity of those offers is likely to increase the odds of that happening.

You can be sure they have tested the concept for a few months now and they have entered enough numbers on excel spreadsheets before launching this. So to answer your question, it will dilute the deal of a the day buzz, but it will increase revenue.

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