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message 1: by Aynge (new)

Aynge (ayngemac) | 1202 comments What kind of deals have you scored?


message 2: by Kevin (new)

Kevin  (ksprink) | 11469 comments What the H-E-double hockey stick is a groupon?


message 3: by Aynge (new)

Aynge (ayngemac) | 1202 comments It's a service that brokers deals with businesses. The business offers 50% off such and such, but only if X amount of Grouponers buy it.


message 4: by Kevin (new)

Kevin  (ksprink) | 11469 comments Then no


message 5: by Sally, la reina (new)

Sally (mrsnolte) | 17373 comments Mod
I've got nothing.


message 6: by Félix (new)

Félix (habitseven) Same.


message 7: by Kevin (new)

Kevin  (ksprink) | 11469 comments I thought it was a fish


message 8: by Félix (new)

Félix (habitseven) I thought it was a porn topic.


message 9: by [deleted user] (new)

I have. I recently got a $20 Amazon gift card for $10 from that site.


message 10: by Jammies (new)

Jammies Yes, but I haven't seen anything good yet. :(


message 11: by janine (new)

janine | 7709 comments groupon insists on harassing me with ads and pop-ups, but no, i'm not giving in.


message 12: by Leshawn (new)

Leshawn | 109 comments I bought a $35 groupon for $15 today. It's for a Hawaiian Fusion and Sushi restaurant. I'm planning to take a friend that was born in Hawaii there for her birthday.
I also bought a Bath and Body Work groupon.


message 13: by Aynge (new)

Aynge (ayngemac) | 1202 comments So far I've only bought restaurant deals, and they are always half-off.

I wish I had caught that Amazon gift card deal.


message 14: by Leshawn (new)

Leshawn | 109 comments I wish I had caught the Amazon deal as well!
Maybe they will do it again!


message 15: by Sarah (new)

Sarah | 13814 comments They keep harassing my restaurant to get us to sign up to do a deal, but the deals are AWFUL for a small restaurant. They keep a cut after the 50% so we essentially have to give away X number of meals at 70% off, which isn't viable for a place as small as ours. I think a larger place can get away with that kind of loss in the name of attracting new customers, but we can't.


message 16: by ms.petra (new)

ms.petra (mspetra) I got the BEST DEAL on living social yesterday. 3 weeks with a personal trainer for $39! Regular price $375! I have to use in in the next 3 months.... not a problem. I love great deals on something I can actually use. :)


message 17: by Aynge (new)

Aynge (ayngemac) | 1202 comments Wow!!! That's 90% off!!!


message 18: by ms.petra (new)

ms.petra (mspetra) I know!


message 19: by Aynge (new)

Aynge (ayngemac) | 1202 comments If I could find dance lessons that cheap, I would go for it.


message 20: by ms.petra (new)

ms.petra (mspetra) I would too. I am probably the world's worst dancer. I would like to learn some country dances and the tango.


message 21: by Helena (new)

Helena | 1056 comments I signed up for groupon in Vegas- I got a 1/2 price meal for two ($39.00) which includes two appetizers, two dinners, two desserts, and two beers at Emeril’s.


message 22: by Lobstergirl, el principe (new)

Lobstergirl | 24778 comments Mod
There's an article in the WSJ about how these "daily deal" sites are dying fast. There's been a big shakeout this year, with the smaller ones being bought up by the bigger ones. But per-subscriber costs are getting higher:

For example, Groupon, the daily-deals market leader that filed to go public in June, spent about $7.99 to acquire each subscriber who actually redeemed a daily deal in the first quarter of 2010, according to regulatory filings. By the second quarter of 2011, that figure had nearly tripled to $23.46.

Overall, Groupon spent $378.7 million in marketing initiatives in the first half of 2011, up from $35.5 million in the same period a year earlier


Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...


message 23: by Gertie (new)

Gertie (gertiebird) | 225 comments I have gotten some really fantastic deals on Groupon (for Canvas on Demand, Bagettes.com, local restaurants, eyeglasses, etc.). Just ordered a Bagette yesterday (it is a bag with your own images printed on it), it ordinarily costs $41 but the groupon was $19. Most deals are good like that, you just won't see ones you are interested in every week.


message 24: by Kevin (new)

Kevin  (ksprink) | 11469 comments i'm starting a new online discount site called Poupon. you only get coupons for mustard.


message 25: by Gertie (new)

Gertie (gertiebird) | 225 comments Awesome. You could also sell tickets to the mustard museum which I hear is kind of interesting. (Oddly enough, no joke, I have a friend who got married there.)

I'll start the Poopon site. It'll sell diapers in bulk, or discounts to diaper cleaning services.


message 26: by Jim (new)

Jim | 6484 comments Hey Gertie, didn't know you were from so close. Not many from out of the area know of the Mustard Museum.


message 27: by Gertie (new)

Gertie (gertiebird) | 225 comments Hey neighbor! Yeah I hadn't heard of it until I moved to Madison - still haven't been though. You been?


message 28: by Jim (new)

Jim | 6484 comments When it was in Mt Horeb, not since it moved.


message 29: by ms.petra (new)

ms.petra (mspetra) I am on Living Social as well. Got mani/pedis for me and my daughter last week for $29 each. woohoo!
I also fell in love with my personal trainer and signed on for another month after my special. I may do another as well. She is 25 and kicks my ass 3 times a week.
I adore these discount sites. What a great way to try new things.


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