it's £29 minus 50% simon, so £14.50 for 2 hours work, or £7.25 per hour, which isn't enough to pay staff let alone materials, costs etc.
the £29 for 2 hours work is what they were saying was the best deal for us they could do, in that we couldn't get anything that made any more money then that.
groupons defence to this is that they're pumping all the money they make back into finding more customers, which means this time next year after everyone has done all the cheap cleans for nothing, when someone searchers carpet cleaner on google, groupon will be the first result, and any other way a customer will be likely to find us groupon will be there.
i'm not sure if you get the money for work you don't do even if the customer bought the coupon. from what i gather it's based on up selling. you're supposed to push for another room to make it work, but i can't see too many customers who've paid £29 for 2 hours work wanting to pay another £40 for a lounge, plus at this point you've done most of the house and i find most customers don't always want the whole house done any way.
they act like the deals are one off but in fact are running them all the time just with diffrent companies. i was told they only use companies at most twice a year, which means if groupon starts stealing all the customers which surely must be their plan, then we'll have no choice but to use them, but can only use them twice a year.
my other concern was that as the coupons last a little while, 3 months if i remember correctly, custoemrs will use them over busy periods like xmas where you'd normally have loads of well paid work you'll now be stuck with these