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I have yet to buy a groupon, but I keep looking daily - I got some groupon gift cards. There seems to be way too many ads for spas, salons and the like, which

• tlrobinson 16y ago
  If you have an account you can specify your preferred types of deals in your profile.
• ShabbyDoo 16y ago
  The expected lifetime value of a custom acquisition is so high for these services that Groupon makes sense even if the conversion rate is < 5%. And, since most salon owners can push the risk downward to their commissioned (paid by the job, really) staff, there's even less disincentive. Only the staffers still trying to build a book of business will accept Groupon customers, and those employees' opportunity losses are low because they end-up sitting around between clients anyway. So, the risk/reward trade-off of using Grupon in these industries is quite good.
• justinchen 16y ago
  The number of spas/salons annoys me too. I've found that Living Social has had more local restaurants than Groupon in my area (LA).