Category: Blog News

BLOG NEWS: We’re Expanding into Las Vegas! Visit JustVegasDeals.com for Hot Deals & Travel Tips

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I’m proud to announce that we’re expanding and will be launching a deals blog in the beautiful city of Las Vegas! Las Vegas is the most exciting and entertaining city in the world and gets over 39M tourists per year.

JustVegasDeals.com will feature Las Vegas’ best daily deals, flight deals, hotel deals, show deals, freebies, guides, reviews and travel tips.

Make sure you join the Vegas VIP Mailing List for a chance to win great prizes including a trip for 2 to Las Vegas (more details to follow)!

I encourage you to visit JustVegasDeals.com if you have a future trip planned or know of anyone going to Vegas. There will be lots of hot deals and travel tips that will save you money and help plan your trip.

I go to Vegas 3-4 times a year and know a lot about the city, but I don’t know everything. So I’ve partnered with Vegas insiders and experts who will share their insight and tips.

Please help spread the word and tell your friends and family about www.JustVegasDeals.com.

Click here to check out JustVegasDeals.com

Cheers,

Raymond Lau

PS – What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

BLOG NEWS: LivingSocial’s Starbucks Deal Becomes Daily Deals All-Time Best Selling Deal!

LivingSocial's Starbucks Deal Becomes Daily Deals All-Time Best Selling Deal

LivingSocial.com recent $5 for $10 Starbucks Card eGift deal smashed records and becomes the new all-time best selling daily deal! The deal sold 150,000 vouchers in Canada and 1.5 million in the US! What makes these numbers even more amazing  is deal sold-out in less then 48 hours and there was a limit of only 1 per person. If it weren’t for the limit of 1 per person, they would have sold a ton more because everyone would have stocked up on the deal and bought as many as they could.

This is exciting news for the daily deals industry as it’ll hopefully encourage more brand name companies like Starbucks to offer more deals on daily deals sites like Groupon, TeamBuy, DealFind, LivingSocial, etc…

Congrats LivingSocial, Starbucks and to everyone that got in on the deal!

Click here to view LivingSocial’s latest deals.

Click here to view Groupon’s latest deals.

Click here to view TeamBuy’s latest deals.

Click here to view DealFind’s latest deals.

 

 

BLOG NEWS: Teambuy.ca and Dealfind.com have Merged!

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TeamBuy.ca and DealFind.com have merged! This is major news in the daily deals industry! TeamBuy and DealFind are the 2 biggest daily deals sites based in Canada. I thought something was up when I started noticing some overlapping deals on both sites last week. None the less, I was very surprised when I first heard the news.

TeamBuy.ca and Dealfind.com, two of Canada’s leading e-commerce companies, are pleased to announce a transformational merger that creates Canada’s largest online deals destination.

The transaction—the largest ‘daily deal’ merger in North American history—brings two of the strongest brands in the industry together to offer an unrivaled array of unbeatable deals to over 3.5 million members combined—including a million throughout the United States. Both companies began as ‘deal-a-day’ sites, evolving rapidly to become leaders in the broader flash sales and e-commerce space across various categories.

“From a consolidation perspective, this merger gives us a rock solid foundation where one in every 10 Canadians is signed up to our service,” says Ghassan Halazon, CEO of TeamBuy. “Over the past few years, both TeamBuy and Dealfind have chosen to re-imagine the original daily deal model in very similar ways. This makes the merger a perfect fit from an operational standpoint.”

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According to TeamBuy’s blog, here’s a summary of some of the details:

  • TeamBuy’s user base and company has just grown A LOT (TeamBuy had approx 800K users, DealFind has over 3.5MM users)
  • The TeamBuy.ca brand and URL will remain for Canadian deals & users. Visitors to www.DealFind.ca will be redirected to TeamBuy.ca.
  • The DealFind.com brand and URL will remain for US deals & visitors/users.  As a result, expect to find DealFind.com assets added to LinkShare in the near future.
  • They are still hashing out the details while they complete the merger transition.

If I’m reading it correctly, it sounds more like TeamBuy acquired DealFind, then merged with DealFind. I thought it would have been the other-way around because DealFind had stronger sales and was the larger company. This means TeamBuy is now a major player in the industry and the 2nd biggest daily deals site behind Groupon in Canada. I don’t know the details of how long it will take the 2 sites to merge so I will continue to post and feature deals from both sites until they complete the transition. This means if you see the same deal featured on TeamBuy and DealFind, it’s probably a better idea to buy the deal on TeamBuy.ca. This should hopefully mean better deals for us moving forward since it’ll give TeamBuy the power to negotiate better deals with local businesses and with large brand name retailers. Congrats TeamBuy!

Click here to visit TeamBuy.ca

Click here to visit DealFind.com

Happy New Year Canada!

I hope that you and your loved ones had an amazing holiday season and wish you all the best in the New Year.

Happy New Year from my family to yours.

Sincerely,

Raymond, Le, Baby Emma and Mocha
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas everyone! Have a safe and happy holidays!

I hope everyone got what they wished for from Santa. I know I did – my wife and I are celebrating our baby girl’s first Christmas. Emma got a ton of presents.

Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of all the best local and online Boxing Day deals! Check back later as I’ll be updating the blog throughout the day with all the hottest Boxing Day sales.

Regards,

Raymond Lau

Cyber Monday Online Shopping Sales in Canada (Nov 26, 2012)

Today is Cyber Monday (Monday, Nov 26, 2012)! Cyber Monday (first Monday following Black Friday) is the biggest online shopping day of the year. In 2011, Cyber Monday generated over $1.2 billion in sales! Over 80% of Canadian on-line retailers are expected to take part in the festivities by offering terrific 1-day online sales today. If you haven’t started holiday shopping yet, today’s the perfect day to start with all the great deals.

I will update this post throughout the day with all the best and hottest Cyber Monday sales that I can find so check out back often. Since it’s Cyber Monday, most deals will be available online only today.

Here’s all of Canada’s best Cyber Monday sales:

Recently Added:

Electronics

Online

General

Apparel

Enjoy all the Cyber Monday savings! Please help tell your friends, family and co-workers about this site so they can take advantage.

I’m a daddy!

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I would like to introduce all of you to Emma! She was born at 12:06am on October 17, 2012 (her due date). She weighed 7lbs, 5oz. My wife and I are super excited to be parents. We know it’s going to be a lot of work and many sleepless nights, but we’re looking forward to the journey.

I’m currently blogging from the hospital tethering Internet from my iPhone 🙂

I’ve always wanted to make a blog a little more personal and thought this would be the perfect time to do it. First off, I would like to thank all of you for reading and supporting my blog. Thanks to your loyalty and continued support, I quit my job a couple years ago and became a full-time blogger! It was a risky and scary decision at the time, but I haven’t looked back. I’m most excited about having the ability to be able to work from home and help take care and raise my baby.

I won’t have as much free time as before, but I’ll continue to work hard for you guys and update this blog on a regular basis.

Sincerely,

Raymond Lau

DealFind: It’s DealFind’s 2nd Birthday – $5 Off Promo Code + Prizes (May 2 Only)

DealFind is celebrating their 2nd Birthday today (Wednesday, May 2, 2012)! DealFind has sold over 2,000,000 deals in 2 years!

To celebrate, you can save $5 Off Any Purchase of $10 or more when you enter the promotion code BDAY2 at checkout! This is a 24 hour only sale that starting at 6am and will end tomorrow (May 3 at 6am EST).

Plus, you’ll also automatically qualify to win two great prizes if you buy a deal on DealFind today:

  • a Louis Vuitton® Speedy 35 Bag
  • an Apple® new iPad

Click here to shop DealFind.com now or more details.

Enjoy! Press the “Like button” at the top of this post if you like this deal and to share it with friends and family.

DealFind.com: $5 Off Promotion Code for just 72 Hours (Until April 23)

Here’s a promo code that will save you $5 off any DealFind.com deal! Enter the code TGIF5 at checkout to take advantage of this offer. The code is available this weekend only for 72 hours from April 20th 10am (EDT) to April 23rd, 2012 10AM (EDT).

Of all the Daily Deals websites out there, DealFind is my favourite. I’ve purchased the most vouchers from them and think they consistently offer the best deals.

Click here to shop DealFind.com now or to view all the latest deals.

Enjoy! Press the “Like button” at the top of this post if you like this deal and to share it with friends and family.

DealFind: Extra $5 Off Any Deal Promo Code (Until Mar 21)

DealFind has a new promo code that will save you an extra $5 off any deal on their site! The code is available for 48 hours only and ends tonight at midnight (Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 11:59 pm EDT). This is a very good deal since DealFind’s daily deals are already 50-95% off! An extra $5 off an already discounted deal is pretty awesome so don’t miss out!

Enter the promotion code SPRING at checkout to get the discount. There’s a limit of one per customer.

Click here to visit DealFind.com now and to view all of their current deals.

Enjoy! Press the “Like button” at the top of this post if you like this deal and to share it with friends and family.

LAST CHANCE: DealFind – Extra $5 Off Coupon Code (Expires Feb 29)

Last Chance Remnder: Today is the last day to use DealFind’s extra $5 off bonus code. The offer expires tonight at midnight (Wednesday, February 29, 2012). If you’ve already used the code, I found another code FIRST5 that should take $5 off any DealFind purchase. There’s a limit of one per customer.

Here’s a coupon code that will save you an extra $5 Off any DealFind purchase! Just enter the promotion code MORELOVE at check-out to receive your discount. There’s a limit of one per customer and is valid until February 29, 2012 at midnight. This is a very good deal considering DealFind’s daily deals are already 50-90% off! An extra $5 off is huge!

Of all the Daily Deals websites out there, DealFind.com is my favourite. I’ve purchased the most vouchers from them and think they consistently offer the best deals.

Click here to check out all of DealFind’s fantastic deals.

Enjoy! Press the “Like button” at the top of this post if you like this deal and to share with friends and family.

DealFind: Extra $5 Off Coupon Code (Until Feb 29)

Here’s a new coupon code that will save you an extra $5 Off any DealFind purchase! Just enter the promotion code MORELOVE at check-out to receive your discount. There’s a limit of one per customer and is valid until February 29, 2012 at midnight. This is a very good deal considering DealFind’s daily deals are already 50-90% off! An extra $5 off is huge!

Of all the Daily Deals websites out there, DealFind.com is my favourite. I’ve purchased the most vouchers from them and think they consistently offer the best deals.

Click here to check out all of DealFind’s fantastic deals.

Enjoy! Press the “Like button” at the top of this post if you like this deal and to share with friends and family.