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Pennsylvania
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Bought tickets to an aquarium as advertized. They were supposedly (did not actually try) tickets to a different museum, so they were useless to the venue for which they were sold. Total false advertizing. The aquarium has not accepted Groupon tickets for 4 years.

Date of experience: July 19, 2021
California
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They do not guantee their deliveries. The packages are routed via UPS and then locally delivered via USPS and often times the packages are left outside the mailbox or shoved inside your mailbox. If your mailbox is near main street, you will have to find another shipping address, otherwise you are throwing money away on orders you will never receive. In addition, customer sevice reps (via chat) are RUDE! And supervisors don't bother to return your call if you have issues that need to be addressed. You have to wait at least a 2 weeks average to get your FREE shipping after you have paid $9 for one months worth of free shipping and sizes are often times misrepresented. If I could, I would give this site NO STARS!

Date of experience: February 6, 2014
DeeDee L. Groupon Rep
over a year old

Hi Ciara,

Thanks for giving us your feedback on SiteJabber. I'm really sorry to hear about these issues and will be happy to help you resolve them. If you don't want your packages delivered in the way the USPS delivers them, you may wish to speak with your local post office since they are the ones making deliveries. They may also have a service where they can hold packages for you to pick up from them if the area in which they deliver them is not satisfactory for you.

We do provide the expected shipping windows for all of our items, many of which do have about a two week turnaround, and you can place as many orders as you want within the 30 days since the shipping dates have nothing to do with the 30 days of free shipping, it only means that you have to place the order within 30 days of paying for the shipping.

If you can please provide me with an incident number in which you had an unpleasant encounter with our customer service agent, I'll be happy to look into this further. In the private message, please include any information about any orders that are unresolved so I can ensure a speedy resolution for you. Thanks for shopping with us and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Regards,
Jason Faria
Director, Customer Service

Utah
1 review
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I had purchased a massage and the merchant kept canceling my appointments. Groupon customer service would not refund me the purchase amount. Thus, groupon is a risk as the merchant may not honor the groupon and groupon will not provide a refund. It can save alot, but it is a risk and can cost you $ if a merchant does not honor the groupon. Beware of Groupon's customer service and refund policy!

Date of experience: September 26, 2017
Texas
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I would give Groupon negative stars if I could. I had asked to cancel to cancel my order and was told yesterday that it was canceled and that I would not be charged. I woke up to see that I was not only charged for the origional order but a second one as well! Customer support is a joke. They only have an online chat but as soon as they don't know how to answer a question they become unresponsive.

Date of experience: June 4, 2022
Texas
1 review
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Horrible
August 7, 2017

I got two groupons from Elle message. Made the appointments, the day of my appointment the place texts me, doesn't call to cancel my appointments. I tried rescheduling 3 different times. I tried emailing, texting multiple times and tried calling. I even went up to the place to find that it was a small business in another business. They wanted me to wait until she came out of an appointment just to rebook my appointment. So disgusted with Groupon because I told them what was going on and they said they wouldn't refund because it was after 3 days and that if I really wanted to then just give it away as a gift. First off one of them was a gift for my mother. And now neither one of us got the message because no one would ever reply back. Never again will I ever get a Groupon. And I will make sure to tell everyone and anyone how bad the customer service is. It was my first time and I was excited and now you have one extremely angry person.

Date of experience: August 7, 2017
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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BAD!
November 11, 2010

BAD! Go in to purchase a groupon today... while I have the purchase page on, I had to check the recheck rules to make sure I had all the details correct... then suddenly Im locked out. The deal has maxed out. In other words, while I was making my purchase they allowed someone else to snake in underneath me and close the deal on me. WTF! Cmon guys, give us a minute or so to finalize the process. Thats such BS! Would love to YELP this, but Hmm... groupon isn't yelpable... I wonder why! Im so pissed off about this...

Date of experience: November 11, 2010
Netherlands
1 review
2 helpful votes
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What a nightmare this company is! I ordered 2 helicopters through GROUPON... NEVER AGAIN! Ordered last year, first one was faulty and I have tried contacting to get a replacement one by phone/email/ and via Groupon, over 60 times, not even a response! The second was ordered in December... still not come! Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent, Incompetent.

Date of experience: February 4, 2012
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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NEVER EVER BUY GOODS!
December 20, 2012

NEVER EVER BUY GOODS! I have had 2 bad experiences with Groupon Goods and they REFUSE to provide any customer services. I waited 20 days and sent 4 emails regarding a product for my brothers birthday before they told me that they could not fulfill the order. When I purchased, it guaranteed delivery in 2 weeks. It took them FOUR emails to even acknowledge my disappointment and then once they did, they pretty much said "oh well". There are far too many of these websites to take your customers for granted.

Date of experience: December 20, 2012
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I actually had to return 2 groupons and the customre service was awesome. I ordered 2 groupons, and once a friend and I went to the business they were charging an upgrade for the service we wanted, so we decided to return the groupon. It was a Saturday so we both sent emails to the customer service email and received an email back on Monday. I instantly got a groupon credit refund, and they request more information from her. We called on Monday afternoon, with no wait during the call, and I requested to get a credit back to my card instead of a groupon, and she requested a credit back to the card as well. We both got exactly what we asked for, with little questions asked. Awesome and super easy!

Date of experience: March 4, 2013
Oregon
1 review
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Travel/getaways
July 22, 2017

I do like Groupon a lot and have been using this app occasionally. However, I was looking up getaways/travel with all inclusives and was very disappointed by the limited options that they have with travel from airport. Most of the airports are in the eastcoast. I live in OR and could only find 1 or 2 options and they are so much more expensive than other airports. :( wish there would be more
Options to fly from the westcoast.

Date of experience: July 22, 2017
Virginia
1 review
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Group on Rip off
April 20, 2020

Meal Prep Food Container Sets. Multiple Options Available.

Order #: *******013
Purchase Date: Friday, Feb 15,2019
Delivered on: Feb 23,2019
Qty: 1
Order Total:
(MasterCard ending in $62.53

Tops too large for bottoms refused exchange or refund.

Date of experience: April 20, 2020
Texas
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Groupon is a scam
March 28, 2012

Groupon is a scam. I purchased a product for medical service. I mad an appt for the service 2 weeks out, I took time off the the procedure. I received a call 1 week later saying that the dr did not do procedures on the day I made the appointment. The deal did not say it was limited to one day a week. I contacted Groupon and 1 week later I still not have received a response from groupon. Groupon and Totalmedsolutions are nothing but scam artist.

Date of experience: March 28, 2012
Tennessee
1 review
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Excellent!
December 30, 2015

I ordered Beat Mixrs on December 21st and they came in today; December 29th in the original boxing and were in new condition as well! I will be using this company again and I'm very satisfied, thank you so much Groupon!

Date of experience: December 29, 2015
Wisconsin
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I bought a Groupon for a service offered by a business. The business only honored part (about 2/3rds) of the services listed on the Groupon, and then their customer service was horrid when I asked about the rest.

I commented on my experience with the business using the form on the Groupon website. Groupon contacted me via email within 1 day, and offered a FULL refund, no questions asked (and I had not even requested a refund!). They also apologized profusely for the customer service I got from the business itself. They replied to every follow-up email I sent after (some questions on where to apply the refund) that the SAME day, and were extremely friendly, flexible, and helpful.

This was my first Groupon, and I was happy to buy another today after my positive experience with them. Some of the businesses that offer the Groupons may suck, but Groupon itself gets an easy A+.

Date of experience: March 23, 2011
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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What a crock of...
February 7, 2015

What a crock of... This groupon company is-you can buy accomodation voucher for gili Islands bali -try to use the voucher and sure they have vacancies at villa ombak but you can't get to GIli Trawangan as all transportation is cancelled to get there due to high seas-groupon response absolutely NO help at all despite following all the guidelines for supposed full refund -as expected their response claim from your travel insurance

Date of experience: February 7, 2015
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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False Email ADvertising
November 18, 2019

This was my first and most likely last transaction with Groupon. Received an email for $10 off my next Groupon purchase. Tried to buy 2 movie tickets for $17 dollars. Checkout said the coupon code wasn't valid. Looked at terms and conditions to see if I was doing something wrong. After finding nothing, I attempted to locate customer support. WTF? There is no easy way to get to customer support. When I FINALLY located it and started a chat session, the site disconnected me. I opened another session and the person told me that for the promotion to work, I need to purchase one item that is above $10, not just the order. Nowhere did it say this and the rep couldn't tell me where to find it. The email didn't state it; the terms didn't state that; only the rep stated that! Thanks for wasting my time!

Date of experience: November 18, 2019
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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The restaurant deals are consumer fraud. The list prices are not prices used in restaurants. The discounts you receive from real prices are far lower. I have seen the same deal sold for the same restaurant at 2 different prices ( $29 and $43) at the same time. Customer service is a joke (bad). When complaining to them about an expiring deal, I was told i would get a response within 24 hours. I was still being sent from 1 rep to another who promised to get back to me asap after 48 hours. When i complained about the deal itself, I was told they were not responsible for the merchant and refused to honor the guarantee that they promised on their website.

STAY AWAY FROM GROUPON AND THEIR DEALS

Date of experience: December 13, 2013
Ohio
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Do not do business through this website. I get that it tries to save you money but at the end of it all it's not worth it. You might as well save yourself the headache and just pay the full price. I bought a spa treatment for my friend for her as a birthday present. You need a voucher when you go to the place so they can have it for their records. Cannot access my voucher just keeps coming up unavailable (see picture below). I have been in constant contact with customer service and have spoken with at least 5 people, 2 of which said my voucher was available but when I got to print it off it still says unavailable. The other 3 just wanted me to either get off the phone or get off their live chat before they could help fix my problem. Or they would tell me that I need to wait a day or two before I'm able to see it due to "maintenance". So I gave them 3 days and still nothing. Their customer service is terrible and a joke and I would NOT recommend using them. If I could give this "service" a 0 star I would.

Date of experience: October 25, 2019
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I get the sense Ideeli has a huge shipping problem. TWO out of my FOUR items have been "lost." They blame UPS.

However, neither of my "lost" items had working tracking numbers. I was cordial with customer service and politely asked when I would get my order and why the tracking number wasn't working. They replied it is a KNOWN PROBLEM and it shouldn't affect my delivery.

Hmm. Well, I don't think the packages actually existed. Ideeli couldn't give me a working tracking number or an ETA. After FIVE e-mails (no phone number), the customer service rep just said it's lost and I'd get a refund!

I'm irate I won't be getting my items I was dying to get. But, I'm more upset I didn't get a more honest answer. Ideeli lost it--not UPS.

Ordering from Ideeli is like playing the lottery.

Use RueLaLa, HauteLook, or Gilt instead. Ideeli doesn't have their stuff together.

Date of experience: March 7, 2012
DeeDee L. Groupon Rep
over a year old

Hi Gina,

I'm very sorry for the trouble you experienced with your shipments. As I mentioned below, we experienced a tracking code error with less than 1% of the orders we ship. The great news is that we worked with our shipper to get to the bottom of this, and this issue is now resolved.
That said, I apologize for the inconvenience you experienced and will do my utmost to make it right for you. So I can further assist, can you please send me a private message with your user id and the order number(s) you're referring to? I'd be happy to investigate these incidents.

Best regards,

Jason Faria
Sr. Manager Customer Service

Canada
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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They charge ahead but if you have any problems with marchandiser they leave you alone. They dont return money either... They said to me that Merchandiser is refusing to provide service and they told me to give a voucher as gift... WTF! Why I would do that, I want money back!

Date of experience: May 27, 2017

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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