Chiching

@rrhoover no, the merchants have a portal to see the available offers for them. Also they can set simple automated rules to auto-accept offers. Such as mon-thr, 1pm-6pm all offers between $20-$150 , no more than 40% discount

@andreyy nice. Perhaps you could work with the guys at Go Dish ("HotelTonight for restaurants") cc @ryanajon1

thx @rrhoover; @andreyy we should definitely connect - looks like you are in the Bay Area? Shoot me an e-mail (ryan@getgodish.com) if you're around!

@DrDreSay Andrea, the difference in Chiching is that you offering to buy a discounted voucher. You using the voucher as a discount card. when you go to the business that accepted your offer, you use the Chiching voucher as a method of payment rather than paying for the complete service. that gives the user the flexibility to buy a $100 voucher for $60 and use it to pay for the bill. so if the bill is $120, the voucher covers the $100 and you have to put additional $20 out of pocket. the user is not treated as a second class citizen when coming in with a coupon and getting a "special" service. In Chiching case you get a full service and at the end of it you use the voucher to pay, you don't have to even mention to the merchant that you are holding a Chiching voucher when coming in. So far we see very reasonable discount requests ranging from 50%-30% discount, of course we see a small percentage of the ones that offer 80% and 90% off, but these users are not really here to get discounts :)