It seems to me that all of those arguments could be applied to Woot, which did quite well before Groupon. They're at least following a once-proven model. (Woo

It seems to me that all of those arguments could be applied to Woot, which did quite well before Groupon. They're at least following a once-proven model. (Woot has always had a tacked on community, but so does Groupon.)