www.jalebi.co.uk

Where ever you look on the web these days there are more and more social networks, connect to friends, show pictures, share ideas but we think this idea may take off – Social Shopping. People joining together to get a better deal.

We all know there are deals to be had on the high street particularly as the credit crunch is starting to hit. You can now go into some major retailers and ask “if I buy two what discount do I get” – well Jalebi takes this idea further. Get together with people on the net and buy together.

You could say that this is a very similar concept to things such as Pricedrop TV but in reality it is different – Jalebi is funded by profits from its motoring, travel and home insurance services – a proportion of which are donated to community projects, at home and abroad – an idea we really do like and hope to see more of in the future.

The online discounting has been branded “Powerdeals” which are free to all members – The power is once more back with the consumer. A great idea and one that we are pretty sure will catch on but we think the large social networks may pinch the idea fairly soon – we hope not.

On the downside we’re not sure about the name – is it catchy enough when there are so many sites around, possibly it’s just different.

Anyway a great idea – as it’s fairly new we are going to rate it as three star but we’d like to give it more – if any of our readers have used it let us know how it went through the comments section and if it is positive we will up rate it to four stars easily.

(With a star waiting to be issued)

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