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Name: Urban Spoils
Quick Pitch: Urban Spoils aggregates and recommends fantastic daily deals from 100+ social buying websites.
Genius Idea: If you’re Internet-savvy and love a good bargain, you’ve probably already subscribed to a number of daily deal newsletters, like Groupon and LivingSocial, and/or signed up for rush buying sites like Gilt, which posts deep discounts on designer clothing at noon ET every day.
Consequently, your inbox is likely flooded with e-mails promoting all of these deals every morning, which can be difficult and time-consuming to navigate.
Urban Spoils is a 20-person, Seattle-based startup that aggregates all of the group deals from sites like Groupon, Gilt, LivingSocial, BuyWithMe, Ideeli, Tippr and more. You can log on to their site or sign up for their newsletter to easily view the day’s best deals at once. The site serves more than 60 U.S. cities and is preparing to go global.
The selections are both human-curated and based on your preferences (similar to the Personalized Deals option Groupon rolled out today), features that should prove increasingly useful as more sites and businesses move into the group buying space.
What do you think of the service? Would you prefer to get deals from select sites, or use Urban Spoils’s aggregator?
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