Interesting post on Chicago Tribune.com about the drop in traffic to deal sites. Many of the points echo a post I made a couple of weeks ago. Two money quotes:

“My inbox is inundated with sale emails that I delete. I don’t read them anymore because they all blend together,” Ruby, 24, said.

“I delete at least 100-150 emails a day, most from sale sites,” she said. “Too many sales start at noon and I can’t stop in the middle of my day to buy things I don’t need.”

And to quote yours truly:

Along the same lines, there as to be some question about long term appeal. These sites are very trendy right now, but like social networking sites, there is generally a lot of buzz for a while. Eventually it will become just another daily e-mail that most users delete without looking at

This is only the beginning.