Group deal sites — where a product or service is offered if a certain number of customers sign up — have flooded the Australian market in the last year. Buyii rounds up all the deals in your city, saving you visiting multiple sites to seek bargains.
The site tracks more than 15 Australian group deal offerings, including several we’ve featured in the past (Cudo, Ouffer and JumpOnIt, for instance). There are city-specific listings for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, plus a general nationwide category.
The site’s developers say the information is collated by hand rather than scraped, which should mean better accuracy and relevance but presumably might delay the appearance of deals. Once you click through to a deal, you end up on the originating site, though Buyii does frame this Facebook-style with a bar prominently displaying its own logo.
Group deal sites are a mixed blessing, and having so many offers in one place could have a damaging effect on your wallet. However, in productivity terms, not having to visit multiple sites is a good potential time saver.
Scott Purcell
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 8:55 AMAlso try out dealdump.com.au
All daily deal sites, group coupons and bargains in the one place :)
Zhen Lim
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 10:04 AMThanks for the feature Angus. Buyii is updated at 10am, noon and midnight. New deals are generally publishes within 30 minutes.
As we update manually we can categorize the deals. So any user who joins the site can setup a personalized deal display based on their preferences. We find most users either love or hate the health and beauty deals :)
Coralie
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7:28 AMBuyii is not working. I just tried to get onto it.
Sam
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 12:47 PMI love these sites – especially the ones where I can just buy the mrs a coupon for a day spa. win win for lazy shoppers
AllThe Deals
Friday, January 7, 2011 at 5:51 PMallthedeals.com.au offers a similar aggregator service, tracking both daily deals (e.g. Zazz & 1-Day) and Group Buy sites (Spreets & Cudo)
Hot Deals
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:32 AMBuyii is clearly the leading deal aggregator in AU – they do a great job.
Manually adding the deals does indeed provide a better user experience.. hats off to Zhen.
superwalnut
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:21 PMtry dealget.com.au, it tracks more group buy sites and it has more function.
deals lover
Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 1:12 PMFor those who after restaurant deals and specials only, try http://restaurantdeasl.com.au
deals lover
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 3:37 PMSorry.. the link above should be http://restaurantdeals.com.au
Deals United
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 10:18 PMYou might also be interested in http://www.dealsunited.net/ featuring a growing list of deal sites from across Australia and New Zealand.
Vouchersin
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7:43 PMCatch all the Best Daily Deals of the Day, One Day Deal and Discount Vouchers! Check out http://vouchersin.com.au.