This Groupon deal went bad.
A quick poll taking the pulse of domainers about the GoDaddy Groupon reversal, shows that half of those voted point the finger elsewhere.
While 50% of voters believe that it was their own fault for this mess, the other half blames GoDaddy.
Some are now blaming Groupon for this, apparently because the latter started closing down accounts due to abuse!
Others, are claiming that Groupon altered the terms and conditions on January 1st; a claim that is simply not true: we purchased a single Groupon on December 29, 2012 and the terms were already there.
“Limit 1 code per GoDaddy.com account.”
It’s hilarious how lack of common sense and consumer ethics can lead people to blame everyone else, except themselves. 😀
There is – to this date – no official statement from GoDaddy regarding the exact size of the GoDaddy Groupon reversal scandal.
This post is 100% true!
Godaddy did not F you…
You Groupon F yourself !!!
I bought many extra codes. Just to make things clear. Are you saying that I lack common sense and am unethical? We’re still friends either way 🙂
Shane – That’s reserved for those that now complain about how GoDaddy or Groupon screwed them.
DomainShane…do you understand English?
“Limit 1 PLANT per CUSTOMER.” OR per Household.
ID is required.
Groupon IS trying to screw people. Taking away the Groupons is correct but Groupon wants to keep the money and walk away. Google was actually very cool about it and took care of me. Thankfully, credit cards are on the customers side
Bulls,
ahhh. You’ve seem MY coupons. The difference is if you try and use two I stop you.
GoDaddy goofed. End of story.
As for them reversing credits, I think they should eat the loss.
Executives wanted to max those bonuses and told marketing to push a campaign quickly. Marketing did so under pressure to deliver something quickly and totally screwed it up by not thinking what *could* happen.
End of the day, record domain sales, good for bonus. Overspent marketing budget..oops!
Actually I was going to blame you for the Bob Parsons piece you did which probably got the wheels turning on the whole thing when it showed up on Bob’s RSS feed.
TLD.org – Damn right, we are snitches of Bob’s. In fact, Bob Parsons has a direct line by his bed-stand connected to DomainGang. He won’t go to sleep every night before reading DomainGang. He’s reading this as we speak, say hi to Bob!
Class Action. Both Groupon and Godaddy knew how to stop this from getting out of hand. Each have programmers that write code for these campaigns. Any idiot knows that people are going to take advantage of a situation like that! Damn, it was practically free money. If you throw dollars bills out of a moving car, how the heck are you going to require that only a person on the street is only allowed to pick up one dollar EACH? With coding you can do that and so both Godaddy and Groupon FAILED to protect themselves.
Time to contact some lawyers.
Jo – That’s right, contact those lawyers. Remember, the class action takes months to complete – if approved – and the lawyers end up getting up to 75% of the payout.
It is interesting, if someone be blocked when they input that coupons code, they will never buy any extra code , right? so the huge money is saved in bank of godaddy and groupons, even will be returned back in 5 – 7 work days. so , they should eat up the rate?