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Group Buying Web Sites
Evers says the time is ripe for a clever entrepreneur to capitalize on the concept of the group buy using the community-building power of Web. The concept, in which consumers band together to seek a discount price on bulk goods and services, already had its first incarnation in the form of the site letsbuyit.com, which Evers says was a victim of "only slight prematurity." No longer, he says. Discount countertop tile, anyone?