Merry Christmas Toronto

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Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Your continued support means the world to me and I look forward to sharing more hot deals with you in the new year.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours.

Best Wishes everyone,

Raymond, Le and baby Emma.

Cyber Monday 2013 Shopping Sales in Canada (Dec 2, 2013)

Today is Cyber Monday (Monday, December 2, 2013)! Cyber Monday (first Monday following Black Friday) is the biggest online shopping day of the year.

Cyber Monday generated over $2 billion dollars in sales last year! Over 80% of Canadian on-line retailers are expected to take part in the festivities by offering terrific 1-day only online sales today. If you haven’t started holiday shopping yet, today’s the perfect day to start with all the great deals.

I will update this post throughout the day with all the best and hottest Cyber Monday sales so check back often. Since it’s Cyber Monday, most deals will be available online only.

Here’s a comprehensive list of all the best Cyber Monday sales in Canada:

Daily Deals / Online Sites

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Apparel

Enjoy all the Cyber Monday savings! Please help share and tell your friends, family and co-workers about this blog so they can all take advantage of the sales as well.

Black Friday Weekend 2013 Toronto Shopping Sales (Nov 29 – Dec 1)

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UPDATE: Most Black Friday sales now extend over the weekend. I revised my Black Friday post from yesterday and have deleted all the 1-day (Nov 29) only deals. All the deals below are valid over the weekend leading up to Cyber Monday.

Black Friday is on Friday, November 29, 2013! It’s the day after US Thanksgiving where most retailers drastically drop their prices and offer blow-out sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. Most Canadian retailers now offer Black Friday (Nov 29) and Cyber Monday (Dec 2) sales.

I will update this post throughout the day with all the best and hottest Black Friday sales in the city and online so check back often. Please tell your friends, family and co-workers about this site so they can take advantage of all the great deals as well.

Here’s a comprehensive list of all of Toronto’s best Black Friday deals:

Daily Deals / Online Sites

General

Electronics

Apparel

Travel

 

Enjoy all the Black Friday savings! Check back often as I’ll be updating this post throughout the day whenever I find a good deals worth sharing.

Don’t forget to come back on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26, 2012) for the best and hottest online deals.

Click here to join our Daily Deals Mailing List so you never miss a deal again.

Black Friday 2013 Toronto Shopping Sales (Nov 29)

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Today is Black Friday (Friday, November 29, 2013)! It’s the day after US Thanksgiving where most retailers drastically drop their prices and offer blow-out sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year. Most Canadian retailers now offer Black Friday (Nov 29) and Cyber Monday (Dec 2) sales.

I will update this post throughout the day with all the best and hottest Black Friday sales in the city and online so check back often. Please tell your friends, family and co-workers about this site so they can take advantage of all the great deals as well.

Here’s a comprehensive list of all of Toronto’s best Black Friday deals:

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Daily Deals / Online Sites

General

Electronics

Apparel

Travel

 

Enjoy all the Black Friday savings! Check back often as I’ll be updating this post throughout the day whenever I find a good deals worth sharing.

Don’t forget to come back on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26, 2012) for the best and hottest online deals.

Click here to join our Daily Deals Mailing List so you never miss a deal again.

Gmail’s New Features – For Gmail Users

Gmail's New Features - For Gmail Users

To Gmail users and my Daily Deals Email Subscribers,

Gmail recently made ​​changes to its inbox and now divides your incoming e-mail into three categories: Primary, Social, and Promotions. Your Toronto Deals Blog emails are placed in your “Promotions” tab.

To ensure you don’t miss any hot deals, move your Toronto Deals Blog emails into your “Primary” tab.

It’s Easy:

  1. Go to your Gmail inbox and drag and drop any e-mail from Toronto Deals Blog from the ‘Promotions’ tab of your inbox and drop it into your ‘Primary’ tab.
  2. Click “Yes” to save the change and ensure that all future emails from me will appear in your “Primary” tab.

That’s it!

I don’t want you to miss any hot deals because you didn’t see my e-mail especially with Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Boxing Day right around the corner so I highly recommend you do this now.

Click here to join now if you’re not already subscribe to my daily deals email.

Cheers,

Raymond Lau

BLOG NEWS: Web Hosting Issues causing blogs to temporary go down

BLOG NEWS Web Hosting Issues - Temporary Down

The web hosting company that hosts all blogs upgraded to better and faster servers last night. However, they experienced some technical issues causing all of my blogs to temporary go down for most of day yesterday (May 30, 2013). The blogs are back up, but they have not resolved everything yet so things might be a bit wonky for the next day or so.

Trust me when I say I am working diligently on the issue with them so we can get the sites back to normal ASAP.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

Raymond Lau

BLOG NEWS: We’re Expanding into Las Vegas! Visit JustVegasDeals.com for Hot Deals & Travel Tips

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I’m proud to announce that we’re expanding and will be launching a deals blog in the beautiful city of Las Vegas! Las Vegas is the most exciting and entertaining city in the world and gets over 39M tourists per year.

JustVegasDeals.com will feature Las Vegas’ best daily deals, flight deals, hotel deals, show deals, freebies, guides, reviews and travel tips.

Make sure you join the Vegas VIP Mailing List for a chance to win great prizes including a trip for 2 to Las Vegas (more details to follow)!

I encourage you to visit JustVegasDeals.com if you have a future trip planned or know of anyone going to Vegas. There will be lots of hot deals and travel tips that will save you money and help plan your trip.

I go to Vegas 3-4 times a year and know a lot about the city, but I don’t know everything. So I’ve partnered with Vegas insiders and experts who will share their insight and tips.

Please help spread the word and tell your friends and family about www.JustVegasDeals.com.

Click here to check out JustVegasDeals.com

Cheers,

Raymond Lau

PS – What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

BLOG NEWS: LivingSocial’s Starbucks Deal Becomes Daily Deals All-Time Best Selling Deal!

LivingSocial's Starbucks Deal Becomes Daily Deals All-Time Best Selling Deal

LivingSocial.com recent $5 for $10 Starbucks Card eGift deal smashed records and becomes the new all-time best selling daily deal! The deal sold 150,000 vouchers in Canada and 1.5 million in the US! What makes these numbers even more amazing  is deal sold-out in less then 48 hours and there was a limit of only 1 per person. If it weren’t for the limit of 1 per person, they would have sold a ton more because everyone would have stocked up on the deal and bought as many as they could.

This is exciting news for the daily deals industry as it’ll hopefully encourage more brand name companies like Starbucks to offer more deals on daily deals sites like Groupon, TeamBuy, DealFind, LivingSocial, etc…

Congrats LivingSocial, Starbucks and to everyone that got in on the deal!

Click here to view LivingSocial’s latest deals.

Click here to view Groupon’s latest deals.

Click here to view TeamBuy’s latest deals.

Click here to view DealFind’s latest deals.

 

 

BLOG NEWS: Teambuy.ca and Dealfind.com have Merged!

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TeamBuy.ca and DealFind.com have merged! This is major news in the daily deals industry! TeamBuy and DealFind are the 2 biggest daily deals sites based in Canada. I thought something was up when I started noticing some overlapping deals on both sites last week. None the less, I was surprised when I first heard the news.

TeamBuy.ca and Dealfind.com, two of Canada’s leading e-commerce companies, are pleased to announce a transformational merger that creates Canada’s largest online deals destination.

The transaction—the largest ‘daily deal’ merger in North American history—brings two of the strongest brands in the industry together to offer an unrivaled array of unbeatable deals to over 3.5 million members combined—including a million throughout the United States. Both companies began as ‘deal-a-day’ sites, evolving rapidly to become leaders in the broader flash sales and e-commerce space across various categories.

“From a consolidation perspective, this merger gives us a rock solid foundation where one in every 10 Canadians is signed up to our service,” says Ghassan Halazon, CEO of TeamBuy. “Over the past few years, both TeamBuy and Dealfind have chosen to re-imagine the original daily deal model in very similar ways. This makes the merger a perfect fit from an operational standpoint.”

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According to TeamBuy’s blog, here’s a summary of some of the details:

  • TeamBuy’s user base and company has just grown A LOT (TeamBuy had approx 800K users, DealFind has over 3.5MM users)
  • The TeamBuy.ca brand and URL will remain for Canadian deals & users. Visitors to www.DealFind.ca will be redirected to TeamBuy.ca.
  • The DealFind.com brand and URL will remain for US deals & visitors/users.
  • The merger will take a few months to integrate.

If I’m reading it correctly, it sounds more like TeamBuy acquired DealFind, then merged with DealFind. I thought it would have been the other-way around because DealFind had stronger sales and was the larger company. This means TeamBuy is now a major player in the industry and the 2nd biggest daily deals site behind Groupon in Canada. I don’t know the details of how long it will take the 2 sites to merge so I will continue to post and feature deals from both sites until they complete the transition. This means if you see the same deal featured on TeamBuy and DealFind, it’s probably a better idea to buy the deal on TeamBuy.ca. This should hopefully mean better deals for us moving forward since it’ll give TeamBuy the power to negotiate better deals with local businesses and with large brand name retailers. Congrats TeamBuy!

Click here to visit TeamBuy.ca

Click here to visit DealFind.com

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