Buying Collectives

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Buying Collectives Anonymous 02/19/15 (Thu) 20:24:27 No.534

Has anyone ever done this? The idea is that you get together as a group to increase your purchasing power and get lower prices than if you all bought stuff individually.
This is maybe more /thrifty/ than /poverty/, apologies if this grinds any gears.

Some quick links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_buying_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_buying
http://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2012/jun/15/collective-buying-big-switch-cooperative-movement

Anonymous 02/19/15 (Thu) 20:26:27 No.535

>>534
An important distinction:
http://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2011/02/10/group-buying-is-not-collective-purchasing/

Anonymous 02/22/15 (Sun) 09:57:01 No.566

Bump because we're on the internet and the internet should have figured out really good ways to use this idea by now!

Anonymous 07/22/15 (Wed) 06:14:00 No.798

Isn't that basically what groupon does

Anonymous 07/26/15 (Sun) 23:44:05 No.800

this is basically what costco does but they're a large company doing it. This only really works if the entire group is in on the system and no one is a complete slag.

I wish costco worked for me, but its easier to go to the dollar store.

Anonymous 09/17/15 (Thu) 15:47:46 No.833

massdrop.com

That shit still ain't cheap though.