9to5deals.com, a shopping website that offers a daily deal on the best local goods, services and cultural events in 5 markets around the world, launched in Montego Bay on November 1, 2010.

“Montego Bay is my home and home to many high-quality merchants, making it a great match for the 9to5deals.com model,” said Oneil Falknor, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 9to5deals. “We will offer residents unbeatable deals on the best things to do, eat, see and buy in Montego Bay and surrounding areas, while bringing new streams of customers to top local businesses.”

Using the principles of collective buying, 9to5deals negotiates unprecedented discounts with popular businesses that gets its subscribers to shop with merchants that would not necessarily do so. 9to5deals 35,000 and growing subscribers get free daily emails alerting them to the deals. The deals are activated only when a minimum number of people agree to buy, encouraging subscribers to share the promotion with family and friends. By guaranteeing a large number of new customers, 9to5deals has created a powerful new marketing vehicle for local merchants. This innovative approach to e-commerce has growth in new revenue and customer traffic to local businesses while saving thousands of dollars for subscribers.

“In Jamaica right now there will be no need to use a credit card to purchase a deal on 9to5deals.com because most Jamaicans don’t use or have one” said Falknor, if a customer likes a deal that’s featured on 9to5deals.com they will not have to use a credit card to make the purchase online all the customer has to do is to make a note that they want the deal and they would receive an email with the coupon, the customer then prints out the coupon and present it to the business and they get the discount. ”We want to make it really easy and available to all” says Falknor.

“9to5deals.com brings buyers and sellers together in a fun and collaborative way,” said Falknor. “We offer the consumer a great deal they can’t get anywhere else and deliver new customers directly to the merchant.”

During its first week in Montego Bay, 9to5deals.com featured deals included restaurants and therapeutic massages. Upcoming deals include parties, gym memberships and Chinese cuisine. Montego Bay joins Kingston as its second 9to5deals market in Jamaica.

9to5deals.com, launched in August 30, 2010 in Atlanta, and features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, eat, see and buy in 5 markets. 9to5deals uses collective buying power to offer unbeatable prices and provide a win-win for businesses and consumers, delivering more daily deals.