[PJ-Comix]

Uh-Oh! I better use my GroupOn coupons while I can. Anyway, I've hardly paid anything but got hundreds of dollars of free stuff and services because of my referral bucks. I guess Andrew Mason should have sold to Google for several billion dollars while he had the chance. Now I doubt if he could sell GroupOn for a fraction of that price.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** it lets them sell their products to customers who are very price sensitive, without lowering the price paid by people who are too busy or embarassed to clip coupons.***

I never see coupons on the items I like to buy. Coupons are nothing but a bribe to get people to buy foods they normally don’t buy or use.

It is rather irritating to get behind someone in line who suddenly pulls out a handful of coupons for a dozen cake mixes or other items because they are 10 cents off! then they get into an argument with the cashier because half of the coupons are expired.

As I have said before, I don’t use coupons because there is nothing I want to buy that has a coupon on it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Opps, I forgot to mention those groups that go around selling booklets of coupons which you find the stores will not accept.

[Obadiah]

Never really got Groupon. Lot's of coupons for massage therapists and aluminum siding and such.

[rawhide]

Groupon’s Andrew Mason made one of business’ stupidest decision when he turned down Google’s $6 billion buyout offer. Incredible. Pride goes before the fall, and Mason has proven it!

[sitetest]

I’ve only used Groupon once. I bought a coupon to help defray the cost of dinner at a restaurant I’d always wanted to try.

We went to the restaurant, ordered somewhat more than we usually order, because we wanted to try a greater range of menu items, since it was our first time. The cost of the meal was several times the value of the coupon. Additionally, as I always do when using a coupon in a restaurant, I tipped (generously) on the cost of the meal BEFORE taking into account the coupon.

I’m happy we went. It was a moderately pleasant experience and we’d talked about going there for a couple of decades, so we satisfied our curiosity.

So, it was a real win for the restaurant to use Groupon.

It would have worked well for the restaurant except for three facts: 1) it was modestly overpriced; 2) the food wasn’t quite that good and 3) the service, though cheerful, was a little lackadaisical.

If I’m going to pay premium prices, I expect premium food and service.

Getting folks in is one thing. Keeping them coming requires execution.

[1010RD]

When he passed up that deal I said, “He's going to regret that decision for the rest of his life.” Even then it was obvious that Groupon had no defensible position in its market.