Ask HN: Would you monetize your site by adding deals to it?

7 points by Paskulin 13 years ago | 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.

debacle 13 years ago |

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?

poppysan 13 years ago |

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!!

Paskulin 13 years ago | |

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

Paskulin 13 years ago |

http://www.sillytrader.com

Paskulin 13 years ago |

For the first 100 users there is a lifetime free account access.

lcs 13 years ago | |

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.

Paskulin 13 years ago | | |

Give us 15min to fix it.

Thanks