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Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Don't use
September 19, 2015

Groupon is a scam. I purchased a groupon for Atlantic City to use 9/20/15. Called the hotel before I purchased to book and now the hotel magically will not take my groupon. Planned to take my boyfriend for his birthday to the Borgata. Now on hold for 42 minutes with Groupon customer service. No response.

Date of experience: September 19, 2015
Canada
1 review
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I could 0 if i could. I purchased eyelast ext service for 50$. The lady put wrong phone number so u cant reach her and email was replied 7 days after to give me an appointment. The worse she didnt show up to her own store. Btw Her name is lashed by niki in toronto so that you all stay away. I contacted groupon to get money back. I was told i cant get coz i purchased 2 weeks ago. I kept telling them i couldnt get reply from her all this time. They diddnt take any action at all. Basically i lost my money and time for nothing. Never groupon again!

Date of experience: August 9, 2017
Illinois
2 reviews
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Love your deals
August 30, 2016

I've like the service and they have great deals my only problem is I purchase deals and I forget them and the expire. I wish they would dend you a reminder a week out to advise you your Groupon is about to expire. Great deals. I find myself on your site and I look up and it's an hour later.

Date of experience: August 30, 2016
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I chatted with customer service with screen shot of my card transaction. But they keep repeating themselves that they only charge once. Than they ask me a lot of informations. I provided all information they asked but customer service didn't respond more than 20 minutes and they kicked out from chatting. Two changes from my creditcard and they keep saying that they only charge once. Than why I have two changes from Groupon at same time and same date twice and I only got one deal?well...

Date of experience: November 11, 2022
Minnesota
1 review
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Ordered a product on Black Friday that I assumed was coming. When going through the purchase process I received an edit stating to update my credit card information to place the order as my expiration date had passed on the current card listed. Beware due to the wording I expected my order to be placed once the credit card information was updated. I did not want to end up with a duplicate so I attempted a call to the Company and was told the wait to speak with an operator was 1 1/4 hours. I should have known. The order was not placed and I got the "We are sorry lingo from the company." when I emailed them. They will not make it right. I will never order from them again and plan to follow up with the BBB and whomever I need to as it is apparent to me they need some customer service work.

Date of experience: December 10, 2013
California
6 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I think the concept is great. The website looks clean. But they just don't have good offers. Nothing really that special anyway. So I unsubscribed myself from their deals.

I just don't think it's that great or helpful...

Date of experience: October 2, 2012
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DON'T USE!
March 14, 2013

DON'T USE!

Moved 200 miles from business groupon was purchased for, didnt redeem the groupon, called the business and got the OK from them to refund, just had to call groupon. However... Groupon is hurting for money so badly instead of issuing $250 groupon bucks, they'd rather piss me (and hopefully more people) off to the point I WILL NEVER USE THEM AGAIN. Bunch of monkeys kept reading from a scripts about how they don't give refunds. But- I've talked to people who have gotten them, so... maybe Groupon refund lottery system? Either way, stay away. Not worth dealing with them to save a few bucks.

Date of experience: March 14, 2013
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bought an Episonic facial brush from them. Shouldn't even mention that the delivery took forever. But that's not the worst. I received a USED one instead of NEW. Can you imagine buying a pair of USED panties? That's what my reaction was. The item is moreover unreturnable. But if they refuse, I will just lawsuit them.

Date of experience: February 1, 2014
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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December 30, 2014

Complaint Description:
I made two purchases on groupon, one for $17 and another for $116 which i cancelled both immediately. Groupon notified me that i will receive my refund within ten business days. It has been 15 days and still no refund. They emailed me some mambi jambo about my banks claim departnent nit depositing the money to my account. This is unacceptable and i would like to get my refund immediately.

Date of experience: December 30, 2014
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Lonely and frustrated
November 19, 2019

While the heading could apply to sooo many things, it applies to just one: the Ideeli withdrawal. Mr. Hurly has a good thing. How about trying again. NOTHING compares to Ideeli; gone but unable to forget it. So missed

Date of experience: November 17, 2019
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They gave refund for the product which I sent back. Actually I ordered for 32 size 2 pants they sent me 34 size and they refunded me individually after a week. I ordered shoes and the tracking shows it is delivered but I did not receive the package, I contacted them they were rude and claiming that you alredy got one exception refund we are not giving any refund again and canceled my groupon account. It has low shipping services and too worst customer services

Date of experience: June 28, 2017
Ireland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Rotten Organisation
August 4, 2023

Merchant was not honouring service. After a year of dealing with this behaviour and losing out I contacted Groupon for the remaining balance. Their reps Amir and Rahul asked for information. When I gave it to them they then told me I had to deal with the merchant. They then refused to help in anyway and couldn't answer why they wouldn't help.they also wouldn't open a complaint dispute. Don't buy from Groupon

Date of experience: August 4, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awful customer service! I purchased an item which ended up being defective so I shipped it back using the return label provided from Groupon. I shipped the item on May 7th however the item was not received to the warehouse until May 23 which is in the same state! After realizing the status of the return had been changed to closed yet I hadn't received by refund, I called customer service only to be told I needed to provide another 21 days for them to facilitate the refund. I will NEVER order from Groupon again. Not worth the hassle.

Date of experience: June 4, 2014
Pennsylvania
7 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Groupon ads do not actually list what you are getting, even in the fine print. The object is to get your money then trade off with another product they get a better return on. - No refunds. Miss Leading advertising - DO NOT BUY GROUPON

Date of experience: January 29, 2018
Oklahoma
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I ordered 2 laptops over 3 weeks ago. I wasn't provided tracking information until the weekend before 1 of the laptops arrived. Yep, I only received 1 of the laptops. I am still waiting on the other. There is no tracking information for the second laptop yet I've been told it's en route. A customer service rep told me 2 days ago that my second laptop would be here today. That didn't happen. My calls and emails to customer service have not resolved anything. While they aren't rude, they don't go out of their way to make things right either. This has been an expensive lesson to learn. I figured I would post a "Buyer Beware" on as many sites as I could before moving on to reporting them to the BBB and the Attorney General.

Date of experience: July 31, 2013
Eileen W.
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I ordered glass bowls with plastic lids at 14.95 + shipping. They are rather small, but they are cute. The bowls were intact, however one of the lids is broken. Groupon policy is "Sorrywere unable to offer replacements." They recommend "Check the item box and Fine Print to see if your product is covered by warranty
If covered, contact the warranty provider
Otherwise, you can return the item for a full refundto initiate a return, youll need to use a computer." So you have to send the whole thing back or contact the manufacturer just for a stupid lid. I should have went to Bed, Bath and Beyond. Not worth it.

Date of experience: April 12, 2016
Colorado
3 reviews
50 helpful votes
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Thank you Groupon for being a trustworthy site I have always gotten what I have paid for and what I haven't gotten was because I have taken to long and the groupon expired. Even when this happens they still try to make it right.

Date of experience: April 27, 2016
Canada
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Hit and miss.
January 18, 2021

Used the service three times - got lucky, everything went as ordered. The problem of such services is that sometimes you can "miss" and the service fails. Than the question is whether you can refund the money for the inexistent discount.

Date of experience: February 18, 2017
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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THIS SITE CREATE SCAM.@ first they ship ur order really fast. AFTER... they use your payment(money) for couple weeks "laundry your money". However: they will return ur payment, but your order "lost forever". Wanna play? Place order!

Date of experience: April 3, 2012
DeeDee L. Groupon Rep
over a year old

Hi El,

Thank you for taking the time to share your opinion here on SiteJabber. I am very sorry for any inconvenience you have experienced.

Please rest assured that our site is not a scam. It sounds like your package was unfortunately lost after it was shipped, which can happen from time to time. However, when this happens, we are happy to contact the shipping company on your behalf and look into the issue for you. It does take the shipping company 8 days to complete the investigation, but if the shipping company is unable to locate the missing package, members absolutely receive a full refund for the order they did not receive.

If you have any further concerns, or if I can help you with a specific order, please don't hesitate to send me a message here on SiteJabber.

Best,

Jason Faria
Director, Customer Service

Georgia
1 review
13 helpful votes
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They need to change the way they do business.
Many customers don't know is they take 50% of sales form business.
For example if regular price for massage is $ 50 an hour, they will require salon offer 50% off coupon, that means salon will sell $25 an hour massage.
Group on will take 50 % of whatever sales. So that mean the salon get $12.5 for an hour massage! If you are stylist, would you do $12.5 an hour massage for customers?
So, no away salon can offer very good massage for one hour. At the end they have to give you nasty, quick... whatever value $12.5... in the real life You get what you pay for, but in this case yoy pay $30 massage and you only get $12.5.

Good luck

Date of experience: July 20, 2010

Overview

Groupon has a rating of 1.6 stars from 5,286 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Groupon most frequently mention customer service, credit card and fine print. Groupon ranks 250th among Daily Deals sites.

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shipping
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returns
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quality
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