It's less a complaint and more a warning to people who try to use this kind of marketing. It generally doesn't work, and where it does.. only very narrowly. I

It's less a complaint and more a warning to people who try to use this kind of marketing. It generally doesn't work, and where it does.. only very narrowly. If you are losing money to try and attract customers by this method, you may just burning money. They won't become regular customers, you just lost money for no reason. His point about it working to attract Uber DRIVERS makes sense because it's like a hustle culture thing. You could probably attract sales people or affiliates with this kind of thing, but again, not retail customers. I had a friend who ran a gym and for a while he kept trying to get more people in using Groupon and Classpass. The problem was that literally zero of them ever converted to a regular membership. So full paying members were complaining that the classes were getting crowded, meanwhile he was collecting pennies on the dollar from the discounters. In his case at least it was "free revenue" in that it didn't directly cost him anything to serve the discounters. BUT.. If even a single regular member quit due to crowding, it offset 100 Groupon/Classpass people. That's how skewed the economics are.