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Hi Ozbargainers
I was looking at groupon the other day, and could not find many appealing deals
Do people still use groupon or they have moved elsewhere?
TIA
Cookies (and) Cream
Do People Still Use Groupon?
Cookiescream on 19/07/2022 - 12:01
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Nope, stopped looking at it a while ago once I reached the purchase limit on the decent deals. There's nothing interesting on there now
Haven't used it since COVID. Businesses saw it as an opportunity to rip everyone off by not extending expiry dates and/or refusing to honour groupons on days other than listed despite them being closed on those specific days being their CHOICE to cut costs and not mandated.
quite recently to go to Witches in Britches in Melbourne.
Groupon has discounted tickets and there was a further % off on a promo.
Turned out to be $90 for two compared to their normal pricing ($89 per person).
No issues with booking when I called up, and treated as a normal customer when we got there.
Only difference is merchant gets very less of the voucher amount you paid, I have heard as little as 50% (but that sounds very low ball). May be around 60-70% i think rest kept by GROUPON
I guess if it covers there food at a venue like Witches and Britches it's okay because they had the capacity.
The venue will make money on drinks.
We ended up spending close to $50 on drinks.
Sheesh, good question, haven't thought of or used Groupon since lockdowns. Even deleted the Groupon app as it kept sending annoying notifications.
Never have and never will.
The way I understand it works, it's often not good for me as a customer and not good for the actual business either. The main beneficiary of these offers seems to be Groupon themselves.
As a customer I never had a problem.
But in saying that I had a merchant to tell me to book directly with them, and she would match the price.
Generally, the end customer will be paying for whatever voucher/deal. I've heard a lot of complaints from people trying to use these vouchers/deals that the businesses don't seem happy honouring it. Yes, the business agreed to it, but at the end of the day, they exist to make money (not be a charity).
I think one of the well-known ones would be the cheap car service deals. As a customer, do you really trust the mechanic to do things properly without a long list of "recommendations"? As the mechanic, to make money, you would have to find something else to charge the customer to be able to make money on that job. The biggest benefit goes to Groupon themselves.
i use to lots and still sometimes do.
Mainly for top golf here on the gold coast.
The deal used to be great in comparison, now its average, but still a saving.Other than that, no other real deals on there.
Not since being ripped off during covid. I had a build-a-bear workshop party booked for my daughters birthday using a Groupon. If it wasn’t for a party, they converted groupons into credit to be used on their online store. But because it was a party they refused and I lost all the money as they wouldn’t extend the expiry.
This is the part of bargains no one talks about.
There’s more too - I couldn’t do a credit card chargeback as the merchant was Groupon not build-a-bear and they fulfilled my order of providing me the voucher. Just because I couldn’t use it wasn’t a valid reason to win the chargeback. Never using Groupon or shopping at build-a-bear again.
What you needed to do was Make a online order again, and then ask groupon to refund that NEW order.
This would have had kinda reset the expiry date on the GROUPON CREDIT, (WORKS with Kogan assuming it is kinda same deal with groupon too)
I do if there is an offer that is decent to stack with Cash Rewards or Shopback.
There is only one deal that i am looking at, and waiting to see if a good cash rewards come about.
Some groupon deals are good, (It really depends on what you are buying aka from what merchant)
others are just jacked up BS
Nevertheless if you just looking to spend money its a decent place for spending your money.
Be careful with Cashback from them, they are well known to dishonor legit Cashbacks.
Quite recently I had used a groupon for Car automatic transmission service with engine service for mere $179 groupon (take 15% of that with GROUPON PROMO CODE) and then $40 Cashback cherry on top of it. aka works out to be around $112-$113. And i know this mechanic he aint a crappy one.
Had got like 3 hair cuts for may be like $40 on groupon (10-15% of with groupon PROMO code, and some CB on that too)
Amaysim often does their 6 renewals for $12 (But personally I find amaysim crap, Others dont find them that crappy)
Good to know. I don't use shopback, just cash rewards and I think last time it accrued correctly.
I also have had amaysim for 10 years, hahaha, never changed telco, and I have been happy.
Mostly garbage nowadays. Back when they first started over there, there were lots of good deals for good restaurants, cool hotel deals, cheap/cool activities. Now its mostly thai massages, the same old restaurants every time (makes you wonder what's wrong with that restaurant…), photoalbums etc
I have used for so much stuff in the past. Hotel reservations, bought goods, had a great massage, hair stuff and so on.
But now I look for things and my goodness, just crap.
I use it for a local takeaway pizza place - they do a Groupon for 2 pizzas, garlic bread and a drink for $22. With cashback and Groupon sales it comes down a bit further. I would be happy to buy direct from them at $22, but they charge $36 for the same thing.
Other than that I don't think I've used it for anything else in the last year at least.
Not much in the recent past. But used it couple of weeks back to score the Lycamobile deal
Negative
Scuba Deals - I think I mentioned this in a previous Groupon deals post.
HMAS Brisbane double dive (minus gear) for near $110 is amazing. (Discount codes + Cashback offers).not recently but every now and then when they have a good deal like this amaysim one https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/495304
no. At least I don't.