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Ask HN: Would you monetize your site by adding deals to it?
7 points by Paskulin on May 29, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
It's called www.sillytrader.com and here’s how it works:

1. Seller (you put a service or a product on a sillytrader with a discount) value 200$, price 100$, discount 50%

2. Reseller (you put a product or a servis of a seller to your blog, website, network...) you sell for 100$ and get 20% of the price.

3. Buyer ( you can buy directly from sillytrader or from a reseller) you get 70% of the price.

4. Sillytrade.com get's 10% of every deal.



How does the buyer get 70% of the price? I don't understand.

1. I sell my XBox (~$200 value) on sillytrader for $100. 2. pg puts it up on his site and through referrals gets $20 of the $100 sale price. 3. You see it on paulgraham.com and buy it for $100... and this is where I get confused. Where does the 70% come from?


Great idea. I think that adding an amount sold to the widget may add a bit of interest. it was the first thing I looked for when I went to the site, and provides a crowd-validation. Thanks!!


Thanks for sharing feedback. We are going to add some features.



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Your confirmation link returns 404.

It also has the font color set to white; if you don't enable the images, you won't see it.


Give us 15min to fix it.

Thanks




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