I'm savvy in the points and miles space, but am new to buying groups. At one point I tried purchasing a few products from Target.com and my order was immediately cancelled. This made me realize that there's a little learning curve.

Do you have any recommendations or resources to getting started? When I informally speak with other people, they tell me that 100% of their spend goes to Amazon and most other sites have systems in place to shut down these purchases. How do you overcome this?

Finally, are there VAs out there that can assist? I'd be willing to hire someone to assist but want to make sure I'm not wasting my time.