They don't have a million sales people -_-, 11.8k employees total is a better estimate [1], dropping to 10.7k soon.
Maybe fumes was not the right word. The things they offer as "deals" are fumes. I just loaded the Toronto section, and saw "$179 for $2392 worth of laser hair removal" with >200 sold. I don't believe that the $2392 figure is not grossly inflated. Also "$430 for a $899 iPhone", but then you notice "condition: refurbished".
These things don't come across as credible promotions, but rather the result of someone packaging something up to appear to be a promotion, but it's just a normal price disguised in some way. Perhaps there are some actual promotions on there, but these pseudo-promotions reduce the credibility as a whole. So what's special about groupon again? I can get normal price things anytime/anywhere, and not have to go through the hassle of buying the coupon in a specific time frame, and only be able to use it in a different specific time frame and another dozen restrictions.
Maybe fumes was not the right word. The things they offer as "deals" are fumes. I just loaded the Toronto section, and saw "$179 for $2392 worth of laser hair removal" with >200 sold. I don't believe that the $2392 figure is not grossly inflated. Also "$430 for a $899 iPhone", but then you notice "condition: refurbished".
These things don't come across as credible promotions, but rather the result of someone packaging something up to appear to be a promotion, but it's just a normal price disguised in some way. Perhaps there are some actual promotions on there, but these pseudo-promotions reduce the credibility as a whole. So what's special about groupon again? I can get normal price things anytime/anywhere, and not have to go through the hassle of buying the coupon in a specific time frame, and only be able to use it in a different specific time frame and another dozen restrictions.
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.a...