Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Mark Slaney on November 12, 2012, 07:56:57 pm
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http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/groupon-fights-life-daily-deals-060235541.html
:) :)
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Well then sent alot of small businesses to the wall.
Lets hope this fad of exploiting small businesses with this dumb model is over.
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Yeah, good riddance to them.
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Yep, finally enough brown stuffs hitting their whurly thing. Good riddance, it just made people think you could get anything for nothing.
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Totally agree. It did 2 things:
1) Tell the public that everything can be had for next to nothing (and so breeds this mentality in to normal everyday behaviour).
2) Extract money from the pockets of hard working (sometimes vulnerable) individuals, with empty promises.
See ya Groupon
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As I've posted on other forums, I REALLY hate these vulture companies that feed off your money. If, at last, they have had their day then so much the better.
I can't get my head around some who use this type of "marketing" to build a customer base. It only attracts price shoppers, they very same customer we (mostly) don't want.
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I agree with the above
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i know a few who swear by it. ;D
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Some advertisers see it as an easy way to get work if the advertiser is clever they can make it work but groupon made the rules to suit themselves setting some prices to make it work for them and not the advertiser.
This kind of advertising IMO has put the industry back just like the half price in your area cleaners did.
Shaun
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What can I say? I'm gutted. I missed out on the opportunity to build my business. :-[ :-[ :-[
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As previously posted............we have people charging as little as the Groupon deals via Gumtree and on the 'net. One has a fully wrapped van and boasts about their T/M which is what they mainly use.
I think their name is ............Perfectly Clean
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This kind of advertising IMO has put the industry back just like the half price in your area cleaners did.
Shaun
Spot on!
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..........shame if they do go , I'll miss all the golf , and horse riding deals !
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Some of the meal deals are good and the holiday
breaks too.
Probably works for them but not for trades people.
It has its place, after all we are all price shoppers.
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My wife and I are going on a hack next week which I purchased from Groupon , The stable sold over 800 hacks @ £18 each usual price £40, when Groupon take their cut + vat , the stable are going to be working at a loss, as there will be 2 leaders with us for 90 mins at min wage , its the first time they have done the deal don't think they will again .
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The yahoo report is about the us company (shares gone from $20 a year ago to $2.76 now - ouch) but there is no reason to suppose its any different for them here - worse probably as our wild frontier of consumer law is slightly less wilder than the US
The report says:
"The top reasons cited were high commission rate and low rate of repeat customers gained through offering a promotion.
The survey also found that 32 percent of the merchants reported losing money on the promotions, and nearly 40 percent said the Groupon offer was less effective than other types of marketing.
"I've always maintained that this is a hype driven business built on an unsustainable business model both for the merchants and for Groupon," said Rakesh Agrawal, principal analyst at reDesign mobile, a San Francisco consulting firm.
Lets hope the public will forget the 'get something valuable for nothing business principle' as quickly as they took it up...
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I have actually done several "after Groupon" cleans recently. As soon as the client has informed me they had "A Deal" done a few months ago and weren't happy with it, I always state that there's no way I'm going to be anywhere near the Groupon price. Strange but I haven't lost one yet. :D
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Lets hope this fad of exploiting small businesses with this dumb model is over.
Doubtful looking at the profile history of the guy running Groupon.
Personally I couldn't give a hoot either way. Business owners who were stupid enough to be prepared to work for 25% or less of normal profit margins, or customers who think you can get something for nothing without there being reprocussions somewhere along the line.
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not without a fight there not.
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/manchester-special/Deluxe-Home-Brands/13055896?nlp=&CID=UK_CRM_1_0_0_320&a=2703
877 vax's sold. thats 877 jobs we aint competing for this xmas.
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not without a fight there not.
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/manchester-special/Deluxe-Home-Brands/13055896?nlp=&CID=UK_CRM_1_0_0_320&a=2703
877 vax's sold. thats 877 jobs we aint competing for this xmas.
I might even buy one for my 'maintenance' cleans :P
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was gonna give billy a shout so he can attach it to his pheonix (in series or paralell) to increase his blower. ;D
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WOW!!! 500 watts of power!!!!
Make sure you have plenty of de foamer when you get called to sort it out.
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I wouldn't worry about the people that buy a Vax Derek, most of them would never pay to have a carpet cleaned anyway, or are using it for spot cleaning if they have pets/kids. Those that would have paid but thought they might save a few quid will find out it's hard work for little result and then pay you anyway in future, so it justifies your higher price once they realise how hard work it is to do a proper job. Just my thoughts :)
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500 watts of power! that will be the max allowed if europe gets its way!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/7996383/Europe-to-cut-power-of-vacuum-cleaners-to-save-energy.html
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well thats gotta be good news for us then.
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not without a fight there not.
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/manchester-special/Deluxe-Home-Brands/13055896?nlp=&CID=UK_CRM_1_0_0_320&a=2703
877 vax's sold. thats 877 jobs we aint competing for this xmas.
If not Vax then Bissell, or Vanish or .................. well anything but pay someone. These aren't lost customers, they were never customers.
IMO :)
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Wait until someone in the marketing sector finds out about encap they'll just re invent a rotary and make millions.
Shaun
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Wait until someone in the marketing sector finds out about encap they'll just re invent a rotary and make millions.
Shaun
Isn't it there already under the name 'Shake n Vac'
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Wait until someone in the marketing sector finds out about encap they'll just re invent a rotary and make millions.
Shaun
Isn't it there already under the name 'Shake n Vac'
"Shake n Vac" is rubbish. "Vanish Power Foam" is far superior ;)
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No wet wonder foam is simular ;)
Shaun