Week 3 Original: Dealmoon -- Help You Make Everyday Become Your "Black Friday"

Last week, it cost me about three days to think about where to spend my upcoming Spring break on March. Since this will be my last vocation during my school years, I want to make my trip a little bit special and relax. After asking suggestions from my friends, I finally decided my destination: Puerto Rico! Sunshine and beach, isn't it the best place to get away from the coldness and snow here in big Boston area? Then what I should do was to book hotels, air tickets and cars, and prepare my trip. If you were me, which website would you go to? Tripadvisor? Groupon? Priceline? No No No, I went to Dealmoon to look for deals! Why? Because I can find deals not only on air tickets, hotels, cars, but also sunblock, sunglasses, and many things that may be useful during my trip! More importantly, I can read passages from other people who have experience in traveling to Puerto Rico, or read comments about the product I am going to buy. In sum, This website almost tells me everything! You may never hear about this website. It doesn't matter. I will introduce it to you. 

1. What is Dealmoon?

    Dealmoon.com is a website that offers online shoppers FREE PROMOTION NEWS and LINKS. It provides deals and discounts NEWS for many things such as apparel, cosmetics, travel, household items and more. Deals from Amazon, Macys, Priceline, Groupon and many other popular stores are covered by Dealmoon. Deals news are updated 24/7.

2. What is the difference from Groupon?

     Groupon is a platform that offers online shoppers direct discounts and coupons to selected shops and services. People can buy coupons on Groupon's official website and then show what they've bought to shops. In a word, people finish transaction on Groupon, instead of in the shops. Dealmoon isn't such a website. Just as I mention in point 1, Dealmoon offers PROMOTION NEWS and LINKS from various websites, including Groupon, which means, people do not buy things on Dealmoon's website, but on the original shops' websites. For example, I wanted to buy cheap air tickets from Boston to Puerto Rico, so I went to Dealmoon.com, and I clicked "Travel" to see which airline was on promotion. Then I found American Airlines was offering a roundtrip discount at $92, so if I was interested in it, I could click that link, and then Dealmoon would lead me to American Airlines' official website to get more information. 

 Travel Deals News on Dealmoon

Another important thing that differentiates Dealmoon from Groupon is, you can comment on every deal, or you can "like" it, just like what you do on Facebook. What does this mean? It means Dealmoon.com is not only a simple website that offers you information, but also a platform that you can interact with other online shoppers, make friends with whom you think you share common interests with, as well as communicating with Dealmoon.com. You can tell Dealmoon.com that how you think of the deal, what kinds of deals you want to have, and so forth. Dealmoon.com will give you reply!

3. How does Dealmoon social?
On top of Dealmoon.com's website, it shows some social medias that it uses: Weibo, Facebook, WeChat, Google+, Tweeter, Youtube. It also has a forum that integrates many aspects such as shopping, traveling, selling, chat, entertaining, renting houses, and so on. Tens of thousands of people social on these platforms everyday. Moreover, if you have a smartphone, you can download its app, which makes you more convenient to look for deals anytime. To sum, Dealmoon is very helpful in our daily life.

  

         

 


However, after I went through all of Dealmoon's social medias, I found that Dealmoon has a serious shortage, which limits it become popular in United States: its English version is not as engaging as its Chinese Version, but all deals it offers can be only used in U.S. If Dealmoon can put more efforts on socializing with local Americans, I think it will definitely have a much more optimistic future. Nevertheless, don't worry if you can't read Chinese comments, you can still use Dealmoon.com because deals are posted in English. Have fun in buying things cheaper than they are supposed to be, and feel free to make your day becomes "Black Friday!" 




Reference:
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dealmoon-com#ixzz2t8iesTGS