Any retailers have any experience with Groupon?

Wine Pimps
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This looks like an interesting way to do a strong promotion with no out of pocket up front. Anyone done it?

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No experience with them, I thought it was some exotic fish at first [wink.gif]

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I pitched an idea to them and got promptly denied. I have purchased from them as a consumer, but it was a one time thing and wont go back to that retailer because they are too expensive (organic groceries).

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More info:

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Roberto,

I signed up for their offers. I always get an email with something like “Groupon Save 60% off this week on…” and then you open the email and it’s for a facial or something.

There were a couple of restaurant coupons that piqued my interest, but so far my Groupon experience on the consumer side has been a washout.

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Brent, their demo graphs show that their base is 73% female so that makes sense (and would be GOOD for us).

I am really looking for businesses that have made offers with them. And, I am curious as to the one that got rejected.

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We’re looking into working with them but given slim margins on wine it is tough to figure our the right promotion - plus they keep 50% of the groupon sales…

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FIFTY percent?!?!? That would indeed be a deal killer.

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We pitched a case of wine and free wine tasting at our winery for 47% off. The only response we got was that not all offers fit their criteria to groupon offers and when i followed up asking for what the criteria was, I got crickets.

very poor service if you ask me.

This was San Francisco groupon.

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Thanks. It seems they need to get a minimum number of takers or the deal is 86’d, maybe a trip out to the winery limited that in their eyes?

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I signed up, and mostly have gotten offers for spas, cooking classes, and pole dancing classes. All interesting to the correct demographic, I suppose, but a pretty worthless service in general.

Bruce

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Sounds like you used the Brandy, Crystal, or Chastity pseudonym again.

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Roberto,

There’s also Living Social and a new one out of Seattle, Tippr, in the same space.

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Tippr uses the old Mercata technology. Mercata was one of the first, perhaps THE first company to do the “the more people take an offer the lower the price” thing online. Tippr’s a relaunch of a GRoupon style service using that tech (and no, i have no affiliation).

The offers are mostly not useful but every once in a while they work for me.