This is a surprisingly raw launch by a company like Amazon, especially considering they have a partnership with living social. You sign up and nothing is available? Even in a fairly large city like Boston? From a launch POV I'm just surprised they didn't wait til they had some inventory and then add it to your customized homepage. e.g. "Since you were looking at cookbooks would you like 50% of 1 $20 gift card at Temple Bar?"
If Amazon succeeds with this now then this will be a really good example to disprove the concept of the first mover (or maybe in this case hundredth mover) advantage forever.
So we've got LivingSocial, Groupon, Google Offers, and now AmazonLocal. Am I the only one not seeing the point of these coupon sites?<p>I suppose Groupon's required email address turned me off to the genre early on.
Doesn't make sense though ! I would prefer this concept if they have it on the amazon.com homepage. I would hate to give my mail address. I have a feeling this was done in response to Google Wallet.
After a roaring success bringing mail order catalogs online, and then bringing books themselves online, the followup is... ValuPak online?
USA needs more interesting problems to solve.