{"id":166632158,"date":"2011-01-20T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/livingsocial-and-amazon-whats-the-results"},"modified":"2011-01-20T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:18:00","slug":"livingsocial-and-amazon-whats-the-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/livingsocial-and-amazon-whats-the-results-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LivingSocial and Amazon &#8211; what&#8217;s the results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been on the internetz at all today you have seen some mention of the $10 for a $20 gift card at Amazon. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Picture_3\" height=\"211\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/picture_32.png\" width=\"373\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Yes you read that right over 1 MILLION purchased. &nbsp;So basically Amazon threw LivingSocial a bone and gave everyone a 50% off coupon. &nbsp;The question remains what will this do for LivingSocial? &nbsp;They are lagging far behind Groupon and besides their really annoying Cupcake ads, don&#8217;t have much traction. &nbsp;This offer went huge on the internet but now how many of these Amazon bargain seekers will stick around and use LivingSocial? &nbsp;Who knows.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>If I were LivingSocial, I would make sure to have a KILLER deal lined up for the next few days to try and convince people to keep using my service and to keep those affiliate links flying around the internet.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>What do you think? Do you think this will help LivingSocial gain and keep new customers, or was this just a giant 50% off Amazon sale? Respond in zee comments.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>UPDATE &#8211; I have found that Amazon was not involved in this deal at all. &nbsp;That means that it was a pure customer acquisition play by LivingSocial. So they paid $10 dollars for each email address and credit card info. &nbsp;Slightly troubling is that fact that it was relatively easy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepgreencrystals.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/living-social-h.html\" title=\"Hack LIvingSocial\">hack the site buying more than one for yourself<\/a>. So hopefully this pays off for LivingSocial. &nbsp;Otherwise that is 20 million dollars of pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been on the internetz at all today you have seen some mention of the $10 for a $20 gift card at Amazon. Yes you read that right over 1 MILLION purchased. So basically Amazon threw LivingSocial a bone and gave everyone a 50% off coupon&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166632158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166632158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166632158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166632158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166632158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}