With coupons being the hottest “me-too” area at the moment, there seems to be a new player starting up every week. Here’s my list of current players in Dubai. I’ll try to update it as and when players arrive and leave the market.
In no particular order:
- Gonabit - Local, backed by Bayt.com
- Cobone, Local, backed by Jabber Internet Group & external partners.
- Groupon - Chicago based, backed by it’s well known parent.
- livingsocial (coming soon) - Washington DC based, invested in by Amazon.
- Deal Gobbler - Local, unknown backers
- Dealaboo - Local, unknown backers
8th June 2011 - An update to my first list:
- Moosavings - Local, backed by Cactimedia
- YallaBanana - Local, backed by Turret Digital
It’s not that big a market folks.
Its a pretty huge dealspace out here:
http://www.cobone.com
http://www.groupon.ae
http://www.livingsocial.com
http://www.nailthedeal.com
http://www.dealgobbler.com
http://www.joyoffer.com
http://www.moosavings.com
http://uae.makhsoom.com
http://www.yallabanana.com
http://www.coponic.com
http://www.thescoupon.com
http://www.kobonaty.com
http://www.nabthis.com
http://www.woop.ae
http://www.craveandsnitch.com
http://www.hunturdeals.com
http://www.dealsouk.com
http://www.dealsnmeals.com
http://www.a1dubai.com
http://ae.moxdeals.com/Dubai
http://grosper.com/
https://www.rakbankdeals.ae
http://www.tipadeal.com/
Not started yet but slated to start:
http://edealster.com
http://www.hitthedeals.com
http://www.coupolicious.com
And the ones closed down:
http://www.cityloots.com
http://www.upondeals.ae
http://www.yaladeal.com
http://www.dealincity.com
http://www.hotdealuae.com
Hey Sohaib,
Thanks for the heads up! I stopped tracking this a while ago, but it's interesting to see just how many players there are out there.
I wonder how long it'll take for the market to whittle back down to two to three players again.
Thanks for your efforts
Joanne
Hi Omar,
Very impressive how you called the deal site consolidation correctly all those years ago. We are pretty much down to two or three players right now in the UAE, just as you predicted. You were right about the market not being that big which is one reason why the concept failed - but I also think the business model isn't sustainable primarily because selling anything for 50% or less of its original does nothing more than damage long term brand image. Who would ever want to pay full price again?!
:)
thnx rhis was amazinglyyy helpful
Heh. You're welcome!
Add www.group4deal.com to the list !
Lol. Another one!
do you have chinese coupons
http://alldubaioffers.com/Very useful since the number of deal sites is very high ;) It collects deals from all sites n post in it.
Hi Omarkassim
Thanks once again for your useful site, purchased a few vouchers from the different merchants which I used whilst on vacation May/June saved a small fortune.
Cheers Joanne
Hi Joanne, sure thing! I'm glad that it was useful!
Yes, and I more to the list http://dubai-offers.blogspo... which has a custom deal search engine which can search most the the deal sites powered by Google custom search..