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HAS ANYONE SEEN MAH PAYPALZ?

Drunk shopping is how you end up with three bags of chips and a cheeseburger in your purse in the morning, or how you find yourself binging on the As Seen on TV rack at the Walgreens (I dont’ want the Pasta Boat. I NEED IT). Apparently, according to The Times today, drunk shopping could be getting more dangerous for your wallet. In its latest is-this-actually-a-trend? piece, reporter Stephanie Clifford says online retailers may be targeting your tipsy sensibilities to entice you to buy buy buy in between all that online crush stalking you do post-drinking. “Post-bar, inhibitions can be impacted, and that can cause shopping, and hopefully healthy impulse buying,” says Andy Page, the president of Gilt Groupe, which is starting more late-night sales to catch this proverbial fish in the whiskey barrel. Not that we didn’t know those flash sales were hazardous anyway.

Watch out Groupon!

If you can’t seem to get enough offers for cheap teeth whitening and brow waxings at salons you’ve never heard of, then you’ll be thrilled that there’s a new “social” deal site in town. Gilt Groupe (friend!) has just unveiled a new NYC-centric site designed to compete with Groupon (um, never mind!). Gilt, for those who don’t know—and lots of you probably shouldn’t—has twice daily “sample” sales on designer clothes and accessories, at noon and 9 every day. (Warning: it can get addictive, because alongside the $350 Tory Burch dresses are $22 earrings from indie designers.) Even though the main Gilt site tends to have schmancy offerings, so far Gilt City‘s deals aren’t all that different from the ones we’re used to seeing from similar sites: yesterday they had discounts on a three-course meal at a restaurant on the Upper East Side, a wine class, a spa treatment and some frozen yogurt. Email us when it’s 90 percent off everything at the Apple store!

[via Racked]

The Estancia Vik in San Jose Ignacio, Uruguay.

We’ve never really understood the whole Gilt Groupe membership thing—it’s a designer-discount site where they say you have to be invited to join, but anyone can just sign up here, and then you get emails about crazy sales on R.J. Graziano jewelry, Ernest Sewn jeans, DKNY shoes, Marc by Marc Jacobs menswear and the like. Sales start at noon each day, and as some of our fashiony friends can attest, they can get a little… addictive. Now they’re rolling out a luxury travel-deal site, jetsetter.com, as we discovered via yesterday’s Gilt Groupe email blast. It’s still in “preview” and still wicked expensive, but we wanted you to know because the places they’re discounting are pretty fantabulous: ranches in Montana; estates in Mustique; resorts in José Ignacio, Uruguay; and even the Hotel Rivington ($249 a night instead of the $375 on the web site.) No, it’s not couch surfing, and you won’t find a place for $500 a week here, but if you send the link to a rich relative, maybe you’ll get invited? Sign up here.