On: Organizing a Group Buy of Flour

[TuringNYC]

There used to be a startup "Mercado" in the dot com days where consumers could form buyer's groups. It worked well for a while until the downturn.

[sf_rob → TuringNYC]

Massdrop (drop.com) had a similar model, but they seem to be in the process of becoming a more traditional retailer.

[Jsharm → TuringNYC]

I was just thinking why doesn't this exist!

[TuringNYC → Jsharm]

Sadly, so many things we all wish existed already exist and yet we just dont know about it. It is a big challenge for small tech businesses / websites -- they can offer desperately needed services and yet users only have so much attention budget to learn about all the services out there.

[OrangeMango → Jsharm]

Isn't this what Groupon started out as?

[TuringNYC → OrangeMango]

Groupon is retailer lead. These other services were consumer led, like "I want to buy this -- will 50 people join me so we can collectively pay wholesale?"