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Like any good Jew, especially one living in Israel, I love deals. Deals complete me. A dress that was on sale seems more valuable somehow. Going to the shuk and bargaining over fruit leaves it tasting better than ever. And discovering a new website that brings the promise of amazing deals day after day, well friends, that is priceless.
May I introduce you to GroopBuy where deals are daily and that makes mamma happy. The concept is simple: everyday there is a new deal and if you like it you sign up and then you make sure your friends do too. If enough people sign up for the deal then we all get to enjoy the benefits. And again mamma is happy.
The deals can be for restaurants to dance classes and today it was for a dentist (not a bad idea since my teeth have been feeling sore lately, and I was just ignoring it but now I don’t have to). The deals come to your inbox so I imagine that this is what it feels like when the Christians say, “Everyday feels like Christmas.”
The website is super user-friendly and in English, in fact they even had Anglos in mind when creating the site according to the ‘about us’ section: GroopBuy is a response to the frustrations Anglos may experience when integrating into a new country. This cuts the Israeli learning curve right in half—now we just have to figure out a website that makes the banks and bureaucracies open for more than two hours a day and we might just see a spike in Aliyah.
Who is excited to get her deal on? It’s me and I hope it’s you because it only works if we all join in. And remember mamma wants to be happy.
Check out the deals at www.groopbuy.co.il
Join the Facebook GroopBuy Group
"GroopBuy, Get Your Deal On." was written November 7th, 2010 by thebigfelafel, and filed under Consumer Rights, Jerusalem Scene, Tips on saving NIS, Wisdom Gained and tagged bargain, deal, Groopbuy, Israel, jerusalem, Posts by Molly, save money.
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Interesting to see a Groupon clone make it to Israel. I shared your find on my site, attributed of course.
| Posted 12 years, 7 months agoThanks for sharing! I love this new site – It’s very popular in the States and am very happy to see the concept has made aliyah!
| Posted 12 years, 7 months agoIt is very exciting for us!! I love getting the deals everyday! Thanks for sharing!
| Posted 12 years, 7 months agoI never knew about Groupon, and all the while my husband had been a member for a long time. He just didn’t think to tell me!
| Posted 12 years, 6 months agoGlad to hear there is such a coupon deal site in Israel, too, where three of my kids live, and where (G-d willing) we will live in the future (yes, mama needs to be happy…!)
Go mama!
| Posted 12 years, 6 months agotry also baligam.co.il and kantina.co.il
| Posted 12 years, 4 months agothere are more than 15 such sites in israel now and the number is growing!
| Posted 12 years, 3 months agoBeware! Groopbuy may be a scam! I bought a coupon from Groopbuy and the
| Posted 11 years, 10 months agocoupon was not accepted by the vendor (the vendor claims it doesn’t work
with Groopbuy). Groopbuy does not have a phone number listed (!),
Groopbuy is refusing to refund my money and is ignoring my emails. I’m
still trying to contact Groopbuy with very little success. I’d recommend
you stay away from Groopbuy if you value your money!
I keep trying to join-I fill out the info.
| Posted 11 years, 8 months agoIt says I’ll get emails but I don’t
haven’t a clue what is going on
is the site not working????
Yes it is strange. But it does seem that the site is down. We don’t know why and we hope to see it up and running in the future.
| Posted 11 years, 8 months ago