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$12 for Two Adult Admissions to Pacific Undersea Gardens ($24.53 Value)
Now that is probably a good deal for UG. No hard cost for them at all, and what adults will go without kids?
Groupon, Couvon and other daily deal and mass-buy companies
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 06:35 AM
Todays Groupon is:
Now that is probably a good deal for UG. No hard cost for them at all, and what adults will go without kids?
Now that is probably a good deal for UG. No hard cost for them at all, and what adults will go without kids?
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 08:26 AM
Todays Groupon is:
Now that is probably a good deal for UG. No hard cost for them at all, and what adults will go without kids?
I was just about to post how this is the worst Groupon ever. $12 should be the price per pair for Undersea Gardens.
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 08:29 AM
^They'll pay me $12 to go to PUG? I'm considering it.
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#64
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 10:10 AM
Undersea Gardens is a disgrace. $12 is $12 too much for that dump.
You are better off driving to Sidney and paying full admission price for the Ocean Discovery Centre. That there is what Undersea Gardens should aspire to become instead of the decaying wasteland that its underwater experience has become.
You are better off driving to Sidney and paying full admission price for the Ocean Discovery Centre. That there is what Undersea Gardens should aspire to become instead of the decaying wasteland that its underwater experience has become.
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 02:00 PM
Todays Groupon is:
Now that is probably a good deal for UG. No hard cost for them at all, and what adults will go without kids?
Agreed. Worst Groupon ever?
I wonder if they will have another photobook tomorrow!
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 03:11 PM
Groupon did one for the Shaw Discover Centre. They sold 1034. http://www.groupon.c...iscovery-centre
It looks like the Undersea Gardens one will sell about 900 or so by midnight.
The quality of Groupons are sure going down lately. Bodes well for me, haha.
It looks like the Undersea Gardens one will sell about 900 or so by midnight.
The quality of Groupons are sure going down lately. Bodes well for me, haha.
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 03:43 PM
I joined them all a few months back, picked up some good deals along the way, but I think its getting saturated.
I'm holding out for the "2 for 1 Porsche deal" which might be a little while!!!
I'm holding out for the "2 for 1 Porsche deal" which might be a little while!!!
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 04:16 PM
The quality of Groupons are sure going down lately.
This is how some business models work. Release a product or service which is instantly popular but isn't sustainable. When things start declining release a new form of narcotic-like product or service, and repeat the process until the consumer is dead inside. The ultimate goal is to kill the entire planet.
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 05:16 PM
This is how some business models work. Release a product or service which is instantly popular but isn't sustainable. When things start declining release a new form of narcotic-like product or service, and repeat the process until the consumer is dead inside. The ultimate goal is to kill the entire planet.
You forgot about the part about getting a whole bunch of suckers to invest their hard earned money into the company just before it peaks.
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 09:37 PM
True, for businesses it will be the return customers that will make the coupon scheme pay off in the long run.
To make that happen, staff will have to give the newcomers the royal treatment, even if they know they could be cheapskates.
If businesses make the mistake of cheaping out their coupon customers it could backfire drastically, like it did recently in Japan:
To make that happen, staff will have to give the newcomers the royal treatment, even if they know they could be cheapskates.
If businesses make the mistake of cheaping out their coupon customers it could backfire drastically, like it did recently in Japan:
Its advertisement on Groupon said 33 different types of food would be included, enough to serve four people. But the restaurant was short by about eight items and the fill was meager. The blunder occurred due to an overflow of orders that exceeded the allotted 500 sets and failing to leave enough time to prepare all the boxes, wrote Kenji Mizuguchi, the president of Gaishokubunka, the restauarant management company that oversees Bird Café, on his blog Sunday. In the same blog entry Mr. Mizuguchi announced his resignation as company president to take responsibility for the incident.
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Posted 22 January 2011 - 07:25 AM
Today's SwarmJam is 71% Off a $175 Voucher for Two Nights and a Meal for Two at the Copper Valley Resort.
So you get it for $50.
Sounds pretty good. You can use it through September.
So you get it for $50.
Sounds pretty good. You can use it through September.
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Posted 22 January 2011 - 10:30 AM
I'm starting to think that the cheapskate theory doesn't necessarily represent the largest group of these deal buyers.
My friends who are buying Groupons/Couvons are simply capitalizing on a deal that piques their interest. For example, they'll buy up golfing packages because they like to golf and would buy them anyways. And if they buy a restaurant deal its only for a restaurant that they've been to before.
My friends who are buying Groupons/Couvons are simply capitalizing on a deal that piques their interest. For example, they'll buy up golfing packages because they like to golf and would buy them anyways. And if they buy a restaurant deal its only for a restaurant that they've been to before.
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Posted 22 January 2011 - 10:37 AM
I'm starting to think that the cheapskate theory doesn't necessarily represent the largest group of these deal buyers.
My friends who are buying Groupons/Couvons are simply capitalizing on a deal that piques their interest. For example, they'll buy up golfing packages because they like to golf and would buy them anyways. And if they buy a restaurant deal its only for a restaurant that they've been to before.
I never said this was a bad deal for consumers, I said it was a bad deal for business.
Now golfers only golf at your place if it is discounted, only dine there when you give them 50% off.
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>
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Posted 22 January 2011 - 10:38 AM
Word is that Google is going to launch their own service. Will offer merchants 80% of revenue up front instead of Groupon's 33% and will include Google Adwords at no extra cost.
http://www.scribd.co...secret_password=
Sounds like Groupon should have taken the $6B.
http://www.scribd.co...secret_password=
Sounds like Groupon should have taken the $6B.
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 07:21 AM
Maybe the best merchandise deal I have ever seen on Groupon runs today:
220 already sold in first two hours.
Of note: It runs today AND tomorrow, not sure if we have ever seen a two-day sale mid-week. Are they short of advertisers?
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220 already sold in first two hours.
Of note: It runs today AND tomorrow, not sure if we have ever seen a two-day sale mid-week. Are they short of advertisers?
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 12:42 PM
Maybe the best merchandise deal I have ever seen on Groupon runs today:
220 already sold in first two hours.
Of note: It runs today AND tomorrow, not sure if we have ever seen a two-day sale mid-week. Are they short of advertisers?
1800 sold now... do they really even have 150k in inventory in the store?!
It also go shortened, interestingly. I wonder what the max is?
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 01:16 PM
Yes, they are near $150k sold now.
Still shows for another 10 hours, that ought to put them well over $200k, maybe 250k by then.
I bought it, might be my first Groupon buy - I've bought two SwarmJams...
Still shows for another 10 hours, that ought to put them well over $200k, maybe 250k by then.
I bought it, might be my first Groupon buy - I've bought two SwarmJams...
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 01:58 PM
Yes, they are near $150k sold now.
Still shows for another 10 hours, that ought to put them well over $200k, maybe 250k by then.
I bought it, might be my first Groupon buy - I've bought two SwarmJams...
Hope you didn't buy the featured shoe from Frontrunners! The Nike Free Run + that Frontrunners has featured on Groupon for $129 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $85!
http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/#l=shop,pwp,c-1/hf-10002+12001+4294967132/t-Men's Running Shoes/ipp-48/pn-1
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 02:30 PM
Hope you didn't buy the featured shoe from Frontrunners! The Nike Free Run + that Frontrunners has featured on Groupon for $129 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $85!
http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/#l=shop,pwp,c-1/hf-10002+12001+4294967132/t-Men's Running Shoes/ipp-48/pn-1
No, I have one year to make my purchase. If Groupon bankrupts them by then, I get my money back!
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">"I don’t need a middle person in my pizza slice transaction" <strong>- zoomer, April 17, 2018</strong></span></em></span>
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 04:50 PM
Hope you didn't buy the featured shoe from Frontrunners! The Nike Free Run + that Frontrunners has featured on Groupon for $129 has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $85!
http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/#l=shop,pwp,c-1/hf-10002+12001+4294967132/t-Men's Running Shoes/ipp-48/pn-1
That seems a pretty typical Canadian running shoe markup. I almost died when my $75 Mizunos were $130 here.
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