Wow, the Groupon hate is very strong in this deal, which… I kind of enjoy for whatever reason. Groupon has, I feel, taken the Wootly path of self-destruction. They used to have focus, and at least how I knew Groupon, that focus used to be more on local businesses and the like*. Now I'm getting all these emails which, honestly, read like a shitty version of Woot. Which, we all know, is now a shitty version of Meh. It's just lumps of shit that are barely discounted… frankly, it's just spam. It reads like every other piece of spammy shit in my spambox. So I don't know, I don't know what happened with Groupon. What I do know is they don't have any sock puppets. Hell, they don't even have any dumb monkeys.
* Even then, Groupon seemingly used some fairly nasty tactics. From what I know from small businesses that Grouponed themselves into the hole, they effectively set all the terms (by denying deals that weren't 'good enough'), and… I don't know, I just always got the sense that business owners had to be really careful, and really know what they were getting themselves into. Also, no earthworm dances.
@brhfl Amazon in the past few years has become just as bad or worse. I constantly find shit in Walmart/Meijer/Krogers and even Starbuck shit in Speedway that is about 50% of what Amazon sells it for. Then you have Woot which most of the time is 5-10% off Amazon( yes I know same company now ) but still higher than stores. Meh has a point, which in my mind if online businesses keep this up, B&B stores will make a return due to Egreed.
@Outofmymind Amazon is weird, especially when they don't always make it easy to determine who the seller is — sometimes it's just a super greedy seller who happens to be in the fulfillment program, so it's basically transparent and appears as though Amazon is the one trying to trade you goods for your firstborn. Sometimes it's just the magic algorithm doing its terribly wrong magic. Not to come off defensive of Amazon, I just find it all very fascinating… Shopping there is as much for the entertainment value as anything else these days. Now they're being grosser and grosser about the benefits of Prime… it used to just be that you were paying for impatience… now some products (groceries, I've noticed) are only for sale for the listed price to Prime members, sales start earlier for Prime members (and this has moved past the mothership — I've seen MyHabit sales start early for Amazon prime members… I'm sure this is coming to Woot if it hasn't already), they had their weird diaper rollout which I believe was exclusive to Prime, things like Echo that nobody wants but only Prime members get for now… Amazon is kind of a dirty, dirty dick… But again… oh, so fascinating…
Not to get political but gun deals on discount/coupon sites do not kill innocent men, women & children. Crazy people and criminals kill men, women & children (in may ways, not just with guns).
I'm intrigued. I've seen the name groupon before, but thought it was a site where you swapped coupons. Now I'm checking them out. (Also, I'd never heard of woot either before I was steered a little while ago to meh for an advertised deal. I'm that in the dark!)
@YahSah15@Kerig3 I didn't know woot, either, until I came here maybe 4 months ago. Judging from the bazillion references here, I guess I saved myself from many hours of communal wit and fun in the late 2000's. Whew.
@Kevin You could say that. Never heard of meh either until an ad brought me here in mid December. Didn't bite at first. Just lurked. Then free vmp happened, and ... I'm in!
I wasn't clear enough. Not a meh ad. Ad was from one of those daily deal clearinghouses saying "today only" get such-and-such at meh.com for blah-blah. So I checked it out.
They crew at Groupon are a bunch of assholes. Well, maybe not everyone. I've formed my opinion based on the whole Gnome debacle. http://www.gnome.org/groupon/
I had no idea Group on was so offensive. I thought they were just a place for the newly single to get half off rumba lessons/bowling/wine tasting. Another thing for me to be annoyed about.
... a site I do not frequent but which is based in my town from which peeps I know at local start-ups poach employees but that doesn't generally end well as far as I hear because they tend to promise more than they can deliver so there you go at least we have an amazing restaurant scene and some glorious breweries even if the weather is soul-freezingly terrible atm, riiiiight?
I had to pick "the Devil" when I really wanted to pick "Diablo".
I'd much rather get my Meh-on
I voted in favor of Groupon. hehe.
Voldemort
Wow, the Groupon hate is very strong in this deal, which… I kind of enjoy for whatever reason. Groupon has, I feel, taken the Wootly path of self-destruction. They used to have focus, and at least how I knew Groupon, that focus used to be more on local businesses and the like*. Now I'm getting all these emails which, honestly, read like a shitty version of Woot. Which, we all know, is now a shitty version of Meh. It's just lumps of shit that are barely discounted… frankly, it's just spam. It reads like every other piece of spammy shit in my spambox. So I don't know, I don't know what happened with Groupon. What I do know is they don't have any sock puppets. Hell, they don't even have any dumb monkeys.
* Even then, Groupon seemingly used some fairly nasty tactics. From what I know from small businesses that Grouponed themselves into the hole, they effectively set all the terms (by denying deals that weren't 'good enough'), and… I don't know, I just always got the sense that business owners had to be really careful, and really know what they were getting themselves into. Also, no earthworm dances.
@brhfl Amazon in the past few years has become just as bad or worse. I constantly find shit in Walmart/Meijer/Krogers and even Starbuck shit in Speedway that is about 50% of what Amazon sells it for. Then you have Woot which most of the time is 5-10% off Amazon( yes I know same company now ) but still higher than stores. Meh has a point, which in my mind if online businesses keep this up, B&B stores will make a return due to Egreed.
@Outofmymind Amazon is weird, especially when they don't always make it easy to determine who the seller is — sometimes it's just a super greedy seller who happens to be in the fulfillment program, so it's basically transparent and appears as though Amazon is the one trying to trade you goods for your firstborn. Sometimes it's just the magic algorithm doing its terribly wrong magic. Not to come off defensive of Amazon, I just find it all very fascinating… Shopping there is as much for the entertainment value as anything else these days. Now they're being grosser and grosser about the benefits of Prime… it used to just be that you were paying for impatience… now some products (groceries, I've noticed) are only for sale for the listed price to Prime members, sales start earlier for Prime members (and this has moved past the mothership — I've seen MyHabit sales start early for Amazon prime members… I'm sure this is coming to Woot if it hasn't already), they had their weird diaper rollout which I believe was exclusive to Prime, things like Echo that nobody wants but only Prime members get for now… Amazon is kind of a dirty, dirty dick… But again… oh, so fascinating…
@brhfl I'm just going to start calling them Spampon.
Needs to be a checkbox poll.
Haven't bought a thing from Groupon and closed my account the day they announced the following: http://www.libertynews.com/2013/01/groupon-takes-national-stand-against-2nd-amendment-bans-all-firearm-related-offers/
They realized they were idiots 6 months later and tried to back peddle: http://www.webpronews.com/groupon-is-going-to-offer-gun-deals-again-2013-07
Too little too late.
Not to get political but gun deals on discount/coupon sites do not kill innocent men, women & children. Crazy people and criminals kill men, women & children (in may ways, not just with guns).
Uh, guys, I see that "Goat Lord" is trending. And I am not amused.
@joelmw Even goats have standards. And--sniffle--feelings. :'-(
Seriously, don't you think lord of the flies (Beelzebub) would be better?
OLD Scratch.
@PocketBrain Classic. "I miss the old names."
@mehjohnson Dude, I just watched Constantine. The DVD is in my computer. :-o
@PocketBrain What is this "DVD" you speak of?
@PocketBrain Lol, great movie, could've been longer. Think I'll load up the dvd (@Sane) today, too.
tech.
I'm kinda ignorant of Groupon. So I voted for it in devilish manner.
@mehjohnson I feel my own Groupon ignorance saved me from witnessing another Woot-like fall into faceless corporate doldrums.
No one should ever have to buy a coupon
I'm intrigued. I've seen the name groupon before, but thought it was a site where you swapped coupons. Now
I'm checking them out.
(Also, I'd never heard of woot either before I was steered a little while ago to meh for an advertised deal. I'm that in the dark!)
@YahSah15 But now you've witnessed the LIGHT, and it is quite Meh.
@YahSah15 so I guess advertising works!
@YahSah15 @Kerig3 I didn't know woot, either, until I came here maybe 4 months ago. Judging from the bazillion references here, I guess I saved myself from many hours of communal wit and fun in the late 2000's. Whew.
@Kevin You could say that. Never heard of meh either until an ad brought me here in mid December. Didn't bite at first. Just lurked. Then free vmp happened, and ... I'm in!
@YahSah15 Curious to know what the ad was- I haven't seen ads for Meh on the web yet.
I wasn't clear enough. Not a meh ad. Ad was from one of those daily deal clearinghouses saying "today only" get such-and-such at meh.com for blah-blah. So I checked it out.
Funny part is, meh probably just expanded groupon's customer base more than hurting it by offering up some free, albeit negative, publicity.
@Sane that's only if people read the writing
@Kevin It would be a crime not to read these brilliant passages.
They crew at Groupon are a bunch of assholes. Well, maybe not everyone. I've formed my opinion based on the whole Gnome debacle.
http://www.gnome.org/groupon/
I can't even vote. Why isn't "Shit." on the ballot?
I had no idea Group on was so offensive. I thought they were just a place for the newly single to get half off rumba lessons/bowling/wine tasting. Another thing for me to be annoyed about.
... a site I do not frequent but which is based in my town from which peeps I know at local start-ups poach employees but that doesn't generally end well as far as I hear because they tend to promise more than they can deliver so there you go at least we have an amazing restaurant scene and some glorious breweries even if the weather is soul-freezingly terrible atm, riiiiight?