‘Groupon absolutely SUCKS. Don’t ever - EVER use them if you are a business owner....’
WELL FROM THE BUYERS SIDE OF THINGS....i can report that i
used groupon twice ...got 3 25 dollar haircuts for 3o bucks..
and a year of the Sunday issue of the local newspaper for 10 bucks thats less than nineteen cents a copy DELIVERED..so i guess some offers work and some don’t..
Oh, they’re a boon for the customer - they just don’t gain you a THING as a business owner.
The Groupon custmers we saw? Yep. There for the deal, then we’ve never seen them again.
And those bloody coupons never really expire - the value just goes down, so you have to count that as well. And the paperwork Groupon expected MY STAFF to collect was ridiculous, time consuming and, again, useless to us, but good for them. Data mining, pure & simple.
Will you go back to that same salon and pay FULL PRICE for a haircut in the future? Highly unlikely.
We have SO trained the General Public to shop sales, wait for year-end clearances, wait to buy Christmas ‘junque’ until post-Christmas - we’ve really shot ourselves in the foot in so many ways in retail.
And that’s my story and I’m stickin’ with it! :)
So, after getting the deal, would you now go back to that hair cut place and regularly use the service at the full $25 price?