Deals on Badminton shuttlecocks

As a customer, how would you prefer a deal making site to work?

1. Show deals already worked out, OR
2. Aggregate orders from customers and then work out a deal with the vendors

Both are similar in that they need a minimum volume to be reached in order for the deal price to be honored since the price is tied to the volume commitment. They are different in that in one approach a deal is struck before the orders are aggregated and in the other the deal is struck after the orders are aggregated. With the latter you may be in a better position to negotiate a deal since the orders are already there while the advantage of the former is that the customers know exactly what price they will pay for a certain volume and can influence (by inviting other friends to join in the orders) the volume based on how attractive they find the deal.

Or maybe the best approach is a combination of the two? Thoughts?

Buying Badminton shuttlecocks in Pune

Other than the Badminton racquet's, strings, shoes and apparel which are a one time or an occasional buy, the one thing you need to purchase on a regular basis is shuttles. These come in varying types (plastic or feather) and price ranges.

There must be over a couple hundred groups in Pune and each must at least need a box of shuttles a month or in a couple of months. That makes shuttles an ideal candidate to buy in bulk! What if all these groups consolidated their orders for shuttles and placed one big order? They could get a great deal due to the volume. Here is a site that lets you aggregate your individual orders into a large one - http://punebadminton.dyndns.info/

Try it out. Enter your order and share it with your friends/other groups you know so that one big consolidated order can be placed and everyone can save!

Badminton - Restart

After a long hiatus (read 13 years), I decided to restart playing Badminton last week. The first thing I did was search for a site which helped me connect with badminton groups in the area. There is unfortunately no site that lets people connect with each other to form sports groups and play. As the search on the net was unproductive I made a few calls and in a day I was set.

But that begs the question - Do we need a site where people can create sports groups, advertise vacancies or interest and connect with others to manage their sports groups?