There seem to be two main growth areas for Australian web sites in 2011: group deal providers, and sites aggregating all those group deal providers. Deal Compactor is the latest entrant we’ve heard about in the aggregator category, and emphasises its ability to collate deals from multiple sites into a single email.
The site (which has expanded into Australia after originating in the US) aims to also identify specific addresses for “experience” deals such as spas and restaurants, though this didn’t seem to be functioning particularly well when I dropped by. Cities listed as supported in Australia are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Canberra, Hobart, Wollongong and “Sunrise” (no, me neither). Sites tracked includes Cudo, DealMe, Groupon, Living Social, Ourdeal, Scoopon and Spreets.
As with all aggregation sites, whether this is useful to you will depend on how much time you want to spend bargain hunting. You’ll need to sign up with individual deal providers to actually buy into the deals.
Tommy Packer
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 1:14 AMPretty cool site that. The best Australian daily deal aggregator I use is http://grouped.com.au
Dougally
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 9:01 PMI’m more focussed on products than services, so all the aggregated daily deal sites are available via http://dealdump.com.au/ :P
http://www.allthedeals.com.au/ is OK, has more sites, but I find it visually and functionally awful. }(
Alex - AllTheDeals.com.au
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 4:02 PMThanks Dougally! We’re busy working on a much less awful AllTheDeals. Should be ready very soon :-)
Sam
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 11:50 PMThere’s a few out there. Another one i’ve come across is http://dailydash.com.au
They cover most cities, only thing is you need to signup, but you can just sign in with facebook, so that takes care of it.
David Morrison
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 10:16 AMPretty slick site! I’m a fan.