Taking Groupon to court

groupid

goater78 wrote: »

But you are not fighting your corner you are trying to set up a groupon attack website! I don't see how you setting up a website with a carefully edited selection of negative reviews is fighting your corner! It creates an unfairly distorted impression of a company! It's frankly ridiculous.

....erm......there is no such website. Calm yourself down and ask why people shouldn't complain if they have a grievance. The only distorted impression is yours. You say you love Groupon, possibly because they pay you.

It looks like your bullying is intended to put people off contributing. Please give it a rest.

kathyb1tch

hcb42 wrote: »

Sometimes though, you get what you pay for. £15 straighteners would ring an alarm bell with me anyway (but the fact is all groupon can do is check the offer is valid, not validate the quality of the product itself). Likewise, I have looked at beauty offers occasionally, but decided they are not the kind of venue I would really choose for a pampering...even discounted!

I paid £15 for the straightners which retail at £99.95. Groupon always offer this type of deal. Why should alarm bells ring, they didnt ring when i saw a £30 fish pedicure for £6, would there have just been goldfish in the tank as it was so cheap?

System

groupid wrote: »

....erm......there is no such website. Calm yourself down and ask why people shouldn't complain if they have a grievance. The only distorted impression is yours. You say you love Groupon, possibly because they pay you.

It looks like your bullying is intended to put people off contributing. Please give it a rest.

I love the fact you have accused two people on this thread of working for groupon. If you accuse everyone who thinks you idea is ridiculous of working for groupon they must have alot of employees!

Thane1

Our local groupon agent behaved appllingly I have tried to report her as she is damaging businesses and the Groupon reputation but they will not reply to my emails.

She is abusing her position by pinching the clients idea, sending the sample to china and using her dads import business she ships in the goods and does a groupon campaign her self under her boyfriend name.

I contacted her regarding one of my clients ideas and she told her friend whom she works closely with that my client was doing similar to her client ( A breech of confidentiality) she is using customer ideas to create her own business. I cannot deal with her now as I do not trust her not to tell another person or develop the idea her self.

I contacted her to tell her of two other client of mine who were interested and I was told her response was "I can't be bothered with them" she claims to be one of groupon's best sales people and has a glut of leads to follow up which she told me she will get around to when she feels like (It gives her time to develop her own business whilst getting paid by Groupon- her words) she says she is well ahead of her monthly target so she can sit back... this is not fare to the customer wanting to get onto Groupon.

The told me and my client that Groupon is no good for services and Living social is better.

She has affected my business because I make money from creating the Groupon shop links but she is not interested I cannot get a reply from Groupon so I can give them this business at least they do not have to give me commission for selling groupon.I would want to know if one of my staff was damaging my reputation...perhaps all coupon sites are the same...What ever....

hcb42

kathyb1tch wrote: »

Why should alarm bells ring, QUOTE]

because if something is too good to be true, it usually is, and straighteners get enough press of their own, especially cheap ones!

The reason why salons discuont services, normally, is that they are struggling for midweek business. So even if they can breakeven on the treatment it is a contribution to fixed costs. (overheads)

i dont see the same correlation with hair straighteners. Only cheap ones, which are cheap and no one wants, or possibly fake. £99 straightners, not far off GHD price - deep discounting is not the done thing with strong brands.

AlexanderImaging

Hi Guys

I am a small business and believe I have grounds in which to sue groupon. Until very recently I was a partner and ran several deals with groupon.

My partner manager has plain faced lied to me and swindled me out of money of which I have evidence (back up by a string of emails) and witnesses.

I have no experience in dealing with this sort of thing and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Nick

gb12345

You've been swindled by your partner, but want to sue Groupon. Sorry, I can't see the connection - how exactly are Groupon responsible for your partner conning you?

Edit - reread your post - when you say "partner manager" do you mean the manager at Groupon who was responsible for the deals you ran.

AlexanderImaging

Hi

Sorry that was a bit confusing!

I meant "partner manager" who is a Groupon employee who is responsible for dealing with the deals and promotions we ran.

She told me under no circumstances do Groupon do profit shares with photography studios. To which I challenged but she would not budge, in the end I ran with it. I have since contacted other studio owners who have confirmed that they receive up to 60% of the voucher sales.

However the most frustrating is my partner manager has been telling me the Milton Keynes page is no longer running photography deals. Since making that statement they have run NUMEROUS deals (almost every week) with my competitors, when I asked her about this she told me they had been scheduled for months. This went on for about 4 months.

I have asked around and have found that these deals have gone live in a matter of weeks. I have a feeling she did not want to deal with me because I voiced my concerns about how she was dealing with us (running deals late, putting the wrong terms up, running deals without letting me know, etc). She even ran a "back to school" deal 5 weeks late after the kids had already gone back! resulting in poor sales.

She has wasted an enormous amount of my time and has frustrated me beyond belief, there is much more that are little trivial mistakes but they all add up. My biggest concern is the way she has lied to me.

arcon5

Maybe I've misread your post or something... But are you telling us that you want to sue them because they won't run a deal for you ? If so, jog on.

bod1467

I understand what is being said. However yours is a business-to-business contract not a Consumer contract (which this forum is about), so you'd need to get specific legal advice.

Probably nothing we can help with, sorry.