Team up with other shoppers for better discounts
Have you heard about team buying? First reported by Springwise, it’s a concept that has started in China, where people team up to visit stores together to literally bombard shopkeepers into giving them high discounts. The concept is now being introduced to the US by StoreMob. Using StoreMob’s resources, consumers can list products they want to buy and group together to buy similar items so they can get larger discounts. How it works is that consumers meet at a predetermined location using the information from the boards at StoreMob and get bulk discounts at stores. Eliot Sykes the creator behind StoreMob is extremely interactive and forward thinking, and is sure to create a success of this new concept. It’s not just consumers that benefit from this type of shopping, retailers are also keen to be selected as the store that is "mobbed", as they can end up making quite a tidy profit themselves.
Hi, I’m Eliot, the guy running StoreMob. I and more importantly my ego wanted to say thank you so much for your kind words. Its great to read a blog post about StoreMob, and more importantly about team buying.
StoreMob’s goal at the moment is to promote the concept of team buying - the concept is still virtually unheard of. Without people knowing what team buying is, and getting excited by it, the storemob site will never achieve its aims.
I also wanted to take up more of your comment space by adding that the intention is for StoreMob to help organise team buying across the English speaking world, not just the US. Saying that, the US and the UK are more likely to get up and running quicker than other countries as I have closer ties to these two countries.
Comment by Eliot — April 7, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Welcome Eliot! I think it’s a fantastic concept and would love to take part in some of the “mobbing” too!!
Comment by Administrator — April 8, 2007 @ 11:19 am