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A Real Groupon Promo Code for 25% OFF?

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If you do a search on Google for “Groupon Promo Code” right now, you will see lots of results showing a coupon code for $5 off a purchase of $20 or more (or 25%).  But, the problem is this deal was extremely limited and has long since expired.

The only way to get any sort of additional savings on Groupon right now is to use their friend referral program. Using their referral program you can actually get $10 to use on Groupon for each new customer you refer to them.  It isn’t a promo code, but it is something.

We have another page on our site that explains all the different ways you can save at Groupon and if there is ever a real Groupon promo code we will add it there.

What is showing up in the Google results was a deal that apparently was offered through Savings.com and was then promoted by many of the Savings.com affiliates.  Here is how that deal worked:

Go to Savings.com and you will see a deal that looks like this:

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Then you hit “Get Code” and then you will get this with 2 unique pin numbers:

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What you do next is go to Groupon and enter the PIN numbers during the checkout process which looks like this:

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Some of the sites we read said there were 5,000 of these codes available, but  as we mentioned already have long since expired.

Daily Deal Sites: A List of The Best Daily Deal Sites

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When someone talks about daily deal sites, they are usually talking about one of two different types of daily deal sites, sites like Groupon, and sites Like Woot.  See our list below for our selection of the best daily deal sites in each category.

The sites like Groupon primarily offer daily deals to local businesses like restaurants, spas, home services companies and more.  The deals to these local businesses are usually in the form of discounted “gift certificates” (e.g. $15 for $30 worth of food at a restaurant).   When Groupon first became popular, most of their deals were only available for a single day, thus the moniker daily deals.  As this local daily deal business has evolved, almost all of the deals are available for longer than a single day.

The second category of daily deal sites are the sites like Woot.  These daily deal sites don’t typically offer discounted certificates, but instead sell products at discounted prices.   Most of the most popular sites in this category, including Woot, continue to offer the deals for only a single day.

Here’s our list of best daily deal sites by category – updated though January 2013

Best Daily Deal Sites (Local)

When Groupon became popular and started making tons of money, literally hundreds of sites like them were created.  As it turns out, creating a daily deal site like Groupon is quite easy, but creating one that makes a profit is much more difficult.  Many of  the sites that popped up in the last 3 years have already shut down.  Although there are still a ton of these type of sites out there, most of them do not offer very compelling deals. We have selected what we think are the best daily deal sites that not only offer good deals, but can be trusted to offer quality customer service.

Groupon – The Granddaddy of them all.  They have deals in virtually every market.

LivingSocial – The clear number two to Groupon.  They also have a great selection of deals.

Amazon Local – Initially, this was a partnership with LivingSocial (in whom Amazon invested $175m), but I’m not sure what percentage of the deals are still sold by the LivingSocial sales team.  Nevertheless, the daily deals on Amazon Local are consistently high quality and of course you can rely on Amazon for customer service.

SweetJack– SweetJack is owned and operated by Cumulus Media – owners of hundreds of radio stations.  They are expanding rapidly and are now in about 100 cities.

TravelZoo – While their main focus has been travel for many years now, they have successfully transitioned into local daily deals.  There deals are often to upscale local destinations.  If you like upscale local deals, you can also try out Gilt City – available in a handful of large markets.

Deal Chicken – Deal Chicken is operated by Gannett (The company that owns the USA Today).  If they are available in your town, they usually offer good deals and they can be trusted.

Half Off Depot – Based in Atlanta, this daily deal site is not in a bunch of cities, but if they are in your city they are well worth checking out as they consistently have some of the best deals in town.

Depending on what town you live in, there may be one or two other locally run sites that offer quality deals.  At DailyDibs.com, you can pick your city and see all the daily deals in one place.  See our full list of daily deal sites like groupon here.

 

Best Daily Deal Sites (Products)

Woot – Founded in 2004 and acquired by Amazon in 2010, Woot is the top dog in daily deals for products.  They have expanded into several categories of daily deals (wine, t-shirts, home products, and kids)

1 Sale a Day – Not nearly as big as Woot, but nonetheless very successful.  They also have numerous categories of daily deals. (watches, wireless, family, jewelery, and now flash sales)

Yugster – A Woot clone that has been around for a while and consistently has good deals on a wide range of products.

Daily Steals – Another Woot copycat that offers great daily deals.   They too have expanded their deal of the day product suite.  They now have a deal of the day in the following categories – toys, mobile, home goods.

See our more complete list of daily deal sites that offer product deals here.

Groupon Promo Code

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Unlike many other discount sites, Groupon rarely offers promo codes or coupon codes.  After all, Groupon is one giant promo code. We are always on the lookout for a Groupon promo code and in the rare instances where they have on, we post them here.

If you are desperate to save a few bucks on a Groupon purchase, they are always running this friend referral Groupon promo code. It is not so much a code or a coupon, but it is a way to get $10 off your purchase when you refer a friend.  You get your discount the first time your friend makes a purchase.  Of course to get the discount, your “friend” will need to actually make a Groupon purchase AND that friend can’t already be a Groupon customer.

Groupon occasionally will send out a coupon code to its customers, but that promo code is only good for your specific account.  If you have never gotten one of these promo codes sent to you, you should check your email subscription preferences and make sure you have the ‘rewards’ box checked.

Top Groupon deals this week – Through March 8, 2014:

See all the offers below and get free shipping on Groupon Goods.  Tons of great deals on stuff anyone might want.

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See all the top offers and get free shipping on Groupon Goods.

Check out the Daily Dibs created Groupon online deals page for all your national online deals. This page is a great way to save a bunch of money.

Here are the most popular Groupon deal categories.

Groupon Local Deals  Groupon Vacation Deals  Groupon Product Deals  Groupon National Deals

You can also get great discounts on the Groupon Vacation deals page for vacation travel all over the world.

You can even subscribe to both of those pages and have the deals delivered daily if you are so inclined.

Groupon Travel: Save on All the Groupon Travel Deals and Vacation Deals

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The worlds largest daily deal site has made a major move into the travel and vacation deals business with Groupon Getaways. Through it’s new partnership with Expedia,  Groupon now offers a collection of weekly travel deals.

Click here to see all the active deals: Groupon Vacations

The deals are usually to upscale resorts and hotels. You can expect deals to popular US destinations like Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Lake Tahoe.  Groupon travel also frequently has deals to more exotic locations like Costa Rica and Barbados.  In addition to the popular vacation destination in the US and around the world Groupon also offers deals to hotels, resorts and bed and breakfasts that are closer to home.

Here are a few of this week’s Groupon travel deals.  See them all here

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If you want to see all the current vacation deals, Daily Dibs has a dedicated page that lists all the Groupon Vacation Deals – this page contains all the Groupon Getaway deals plus many other vacation deals offered by Groupon.

Sites Like Groupon: List of Top Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon

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If you are looking for all the sites like Groupon in your city, go HERE and pick your city from the drop-down selector.

How many daily deal sites like Groupon are there exactly?  Well nobody knows for sure because there are new sites popping up and closing every day – mostly closing lately.  Below we have put together a list of all the top sites like Groupon and a list of some others that have deals in multiple cities.  There are also lots of successful sites that only operate in one city.  Since Groupon launched in November 2008 and soon thereafter started minting money at unprecedented rates,  literally hundreds of Groupon like sites have been created to copy their very successful formula.

At Daily Dibs we attempt to bring all the BEST daily deal sites like Groupon in each city together in one place.  If you want them all delivered in a single email, just subscribe.

Top Sites Like Groupon:

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Amazon Local – The Amazon local deals are often sold by LivingSocial, but doesn’t stop them from having great local deals that are not available on LivingSocial.  They also usually have a good selection of deals for national online retailers.

LivingSocial  – These guys are going toe to toe with Groupon in over 100 markets nationwide.  LivingSocial is to Groupon as Pepsi is to Coke.  You can also check for a Living Social Promo Code before you purchase.  They just started to offer them.

SweetJack – A venture between radio behemoths Clear Channel and Cumulus.  Rapidly expanded in 2012 and well positioned for 2013.  The deals are usually excellent as they have some leverage with their advertisers through their radio connections.

DealChicken.com – A Gannett company that has recently expanded to over 20 cities nationwide.  You can expect good customer service because these deals are offered by a large media company in the area.

Half Off Depot – Promo Code – Currently live in six cities: Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, Nashville, Orlando, and Tampa.  Though they aren’t in tons of cities, they are have consistently great deals in the cities they are in.



Plum District  – Promo Code -The leader in family focused daily deals.  If you are looking for family deals, you should try out FamGrab.com an aggregator of family deals.

TravelZoo Local Deals – The popular discount travel website has run local deals in over 20 cities nationwide.  They do a great job of getting deals at desirable destinations like upscale restaurants and spas.

Dealfind – Grew rapidly in 2012 and was considered #3 independent behind Groupon and LivingSocial, but their deal quality and volume has fallen off in most American cities.  They are number one in Canada.

Gilt City – Part of the Gilt brand.  Focus on discounts to upscale establishments

GetMyPerks.com – In 20 plus markets through radio station partnerships with parent company Entercom.

Eversave – Promo Code -Currently running daily deals in 12 cities and growing.  They are based in Boston with their biggest audience in Boston and Philly.

KGB Deals – KGB deals is in 12 cities and is continuing to expand.

ScoutMob – Initially known for their mobile app.  They have expanded from local deals to offer deals from the best independent makers & merchants. You can buy handmade goodness / explore local deals + under-the-radar events near you.

CBS Local Offers – Part of the CBS interactive family, CBS Local is now running deals in over 15 cities.   Each of the sites is partnered with traditional local CBS media properties like radio and television.

We think that these are the local daily deal sites with the greatest footprint and influence in the local markets.  As you can see, LivingSocial and Groupon are by far the biggest sites – nobody else is really even close.

More Sites Like Groupon:


In addition to the top sites listed above, there are several others worth mentioning that have deals in multiple cities:

Mamapedia Sweet Deals – An extension of the existing Mamapedia website.  Deals are focused on the parent audience.

Seize the Deal (website) – In 20+ cities – most of which are small cities.

Tippr – Merged with Crowd Savings and now part of nCrowd.  They don’t appear to have local deals any longer

Crowd Savings – Merged with Half Off Depot to form nCrowd.  I think their local deals are now offered through Half Off Depot

CLOSED – Yollar (website)- A Belo Company brand that is partnered with Belo traditional local media properties.

CLOSED – DailyDealster (website)- Recently merged with Half Off Depot.  Live in over 4o cities, DailyDealster initially partnered with Adility for most of their deals.  Adility supplies to several other similar deal site not listed here.

CLOSED – YellowPages.com Deals

CLOSED – Dealswarm (website) – A Cox Media Group Company – in multiple cities

CLOSED – OpenTable (website)- They run one restaurant deal a week in approximately 10 cities.

CLOSED – BuyWithMe (website)- BuyWithMe is currently in 11 cities and continuing to expand.  They are based in New York City and are venture backed.

CLOSED – BoomSteet (website) – Currently in 3 cites

CLOSED – ValPak Deals (website) – Part of the Valpak company

CLOSED – DealPop (website) – Associated with WhitePages.com

CLOSED – AOL – wow.com – Have been live for several months now, but are only offering deals in 3 cities.

It should also be noted that in virtually every city the local newspaper is now also part of the daily deal economy.

Again, to see all the top providers in any city, just go to Daily Dibs and pick the city you want to see.

We know there are lots more sites like Groupon that could be added to this list.  Hopefully we have gotten all the best ones and a few more you may not have known about.

If you like daily deals you can check out a couple other of our lists.  All the best daily deal sites (like Woot and Groupon).  And just the list of sites like Woot.