What's up with MorningSave and signing in via Facebook?
1I was checking out Meh’s little cousin earlier and I noticed that at the top of the page, it recommends signing in with Facebook “to shop our exclusive offers.” Is this saying that there’s exclusive deals for those who link their Mediocre accounts with Facebook (sorta like how Woot has app-exclusive deals now), or is a Facebook sign-in just the easiest way to entice MorningSave’s target demographic into joining?
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I thought the same thing just now. Seems like maybe they just mean “sign in to buy stuff”.
@jackola yep.
With zero research, I can only assume that it’s to entice new sign-up’s with an easier method. My regular log in still works as usual. Maybe the MorningSave facebook will occasionally link to Meh sales on MorningSave past items, or stuff like that?
@vanslaterco correct on first assumption. I’d guess across the web that >90% of time “login with Facebook” is simply the same as email/password authentication. It’s just less friction for mainstream folks and something even techies are succumbing to.
I don’t amble over to morningsave unless I want to check the availability of items that might be leftover from Meh posts, i.e. it’s been a while. I was very disappointed to find that one can’t even LOOK to see what’s available without signing in. Meh seems to be going the way of Woot. Too bad. Goodbye Morningsave.
@spiralroad You realize Meh and MorningSave are two different stores, right? Stores other than the deal-a-day Meh were always in the cards for Mediocre; in fact, checkout.org has existed for quite a bit longer than MorningSave. I don’t know about you, but I think it’s possible for Mediocre to run more public-facing stores than Meh without making Meh become crappy like Woot did.
With that said, I do have to wonder what the purpose and efficacy is of requiring people to sign in on MorningSave before viewing deals. Is it a means of tracking customer engagement with the site, like the meh button is for Meh?
@lljk Akin to membership warehouses, adding in an extra layer of involvement reduces “lookie loos” and with the (potential) customer inside now, more likely to spend more time seeing what’s offered.