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Groupon has a rating of 1.6 stars from 5,267 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Groupon most frequently mention customer service, credit card, and fine print problems. Groupon ranks 291st among Daily Deals sites.

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    652
  • Value
    598
  • Shipping
    444
  • Returns
    509
  • Quality
    515

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Top Positive Review

“Sketchy”

G u.
1/2/24

For exactly 120 for a couples massage was not reflected on my account. I contacted groupon and gave them the order number in question as well as screenshots of my confirmation email. Instead of inquiring on the issue they refunded a second groupon voucher I bought for a movie ticket in the amount of 26.45 when I paid 29.45 and skipped out on paying my 3 additional dollars. When I contacted them a third time, my email was blocked. I would have been fine calling and explain this issue but there is no customer service number. Beware of the bs. Groupon is sketchy.

Top Critical Review

“So hard to make a review on groupon have sent this to Mystery Flights no reply... want all to know.”

Ange F.
10/27/24

We were so excited my husband was given this as a birthday gift…. The extra expenses have been ridiculous… extra $100 each to fly out from Brisbane… extra costs to sit together on flight… car hire for 3 days cause a very basic motel is not near city, beach, etc…. We were not honoured any of our three Friday and Saturday night options… had to fly out on a Thursday… taking away our income (haven't even gone and down $1060)… gosh I hope our bottom of the peeking order destination is worth it!

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North Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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November 15th, 2011

They sell me a voucher for 185 $ tablet android and the voucher code dosent work and the store say i need to see with groupon. Groupon Never return my email

Thumbnail of user danielles5
Canada
9 reviews
33 helpful votes
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July 13th, 2011

Only four stars for me.

I LOVE THE IDEA OF GROUPON! I think it's awesome!

I've purchased 4 groupons in total - two turned out to be AWESOME! And 2 not so much, the two that were not so much were with beauty salons!

I got one for 50$ I get highlights cut and moisturizing treatment - savings of 80%... I called the next day to book an appointment, and they said they could only fit me in for an appointment in 4 months on some random tuesday morning! I called as soon as you were allowed to, they sold over 500 groupons granted, but I"m sure that I was one of the first 30 callers!

Can you sell groupons? I don't even want to use this one!

But the two I did get that were awesome (20$ for 50$ worth of Merch@ THE BODY SHOP & 199$ for 12 of us to go Go Karting for 30 minutes) Were second to none deals!

Thumbnail of user ginab27
Michigan
5 reviews
4 helpful votes
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May 3rd, 2016

They always have good deals. I like them because they always have different and new things to offer which gives you the opportunity to try new things for really cheap.

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California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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January 8th, 2013

For the SECOND time I bought a Groupon but was refused rudely by the merchant when I tried to use it. When I contacted Groupon customer service, it took a long time to finally get someone on the phone and then I was told to allow them several days to confirm with the merchant that they are not honoring their Groupons. My complaint is tri- fold: #1 a growing number of merchants are not honoring groupons that are already purchased #2 Groupon is hard to get in contact with. They encourage e-mails to which they take their time responding and there is a very long wait on their customer service number and #3 it takes WAY TOO LONG for Groupon to process refunds. Why does it take Groupon days to confirm with the merchant rudely told me in 10 seconds? I'll never buy a Groupon again.

Thumbnail of user maryannc2
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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May 2nd, 2014

I have used Groupon successfully many times however the last two occasions have been a disaster and I won't be shopping with them again. The first disaster was purchasing 4 rugby tickets a year before the game. The tickets never arrived and it was down to me to chase Groupon to find out what was going on. In the end we had to get to the Twickenham stadium early in order to pick up the tickets and instead of the promised ' good ' seats we were given seats tucked in a corner and very disappointing. The second disaster was when I received a wicker picnic basket instead of a steam generated iron and had to wait two weeks for this! When I actually got through to a real person instead of a useless automated response I was told that due to limited stock they could not send me my iron. They then told me they could see a similar one on the Internet and I should buy that and send back their picnic basket. I told them what I thought of that idea and they promised me a £ 10 voucher. The iron on the Internet wasn't the same and as I m not going to use Groupon again the £10 voucher wasn't much use either! I eventually found a replacement iron on Amazon who will deliver it tomorrow for about the same price as Groupon... oh and one more thing! Groupon won't refund my money until they get the picnic basket back. They eventually agreed to send a courier to pick it up and I m just waiting to be charged for that as well!

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New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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February 21st, 2014

So I ordered a tablet from GROUPON and they gave me a fake tracking number, said they shipped it via DHL, I checked the tracking number and it was fake! DHL said they never received the package, so I call GROUPON back and they said no we have not shipped it, yes the number we gave you is not valid!
But we are very sorry, your purchase is in our system and we have no idea when we will ship... but we are so sorry.
DON'T BUY GROUPON!

Thumbnail of user susang32
Colorado
4 reviews
0 helpful votes
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April 11th, 2015

You never know what might be offered, and the offers range from a manicure to a weekend at a mountain resort. Good stuff, fun, good offers, and easy to redeem the deal.

Thumbnail of user samanthap62
New Jersey
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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March 4th, 2017

Definitely a must have app to have on your phone when your in a new area. A ton of deals from new businesses to try out their service for a low price.

Thumbnail of user chelll
Florida
1 review
20 helpful votes
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October 27th, 2016

Go back to the original site please. Groupon is like going to flea market. The initial Ideeli site was organize, detailed and appealing. This site is ridiculous

Thumbnail of user tamarar12
Canada
6 reviews
2 helpful votes
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May 18th, 2016

Great deals on local hair removal and Hair stylists. That's what I usually buy. But I also have purchased jewelry... and I've seen some great restaurant deals.

Thumbnail of user shawntrelld
Virginia
9 reviews
36 helpful votes
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May 14th, 2016

I simply have great shopping and Pricing. Their deals are hard to beat and the Customer Service Responses are quick and professional.

Another site I have used repeatedly and will continue to.

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North Carolina
1 review
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July 17th, 2023
Verified purchase

I purchased three tickets for the Hornblower City Cruise in San Diego while on vacation in July. Just as I was about to board, I saw an email from Groupon the day of the cruise stating my Paypal transaction failed and did not go through. So I checked my bank account and the payment had not been processed so I purchased an additional three tickets. When I got to the booth a City Cruise staff member told me the original ticket purchase went through and she could see where I purchased three additional tickets. I asked if she could cancel the additional ticket purchase from her end but she said I would have to cancel through Groupon but she would show in the system that the additional tickets were not used. I reached out to Groupon customer service on several occasions to have my monies refunded for the additional tickets with no success. The live chat said I can't get a refund and the email won't submit to allow me to show proof of documentation. I would not have purchased the additional tickets if it had not been for the boagus email I received and all I wanted is a refund for the additional tickets I purchased. I tried to block the payment through PayPal with not luck, the funds had been withdrawn. So I reported them to the Better Business Bureau. They want to provide Groupon bucks but I don't plan on using the app again. So buy with caution!

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Thumbnail of user jr39
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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May 21st, 2012

The products are ok, once you finally get them. However, they do a weird thing with their shipping in that it starts with UPS, but instead of UPS just delivering it to you, UPS delivers it to your local US Post Office, who then will deliver it (if you're lucky, unlike me this time) the next day. I'm not sure why they need that extra step in there or why they can't allow us to choose the delivery, but it is annoying when it breaks down. I am currently waiting for a delivery that was supposed to be delivered by USPS on Saturday. I waited ALL day for the delivery and it never came. I looked at the USPS track and confirm site later that night and it said that they made a delivery attempt AND left a notice! WHAT!?!?!?! I was at home then and they didn't come! They didn't leave any delivery notice either. So I then tried to find where the package is today and was told it was at a local office waiting for me to pick up. I go there and they said they don't have it and it was "still on the truck", but they couldn't say whether that meant they would try to deliver it again today. So I contact Ideeli to complain and the CS person acted like it didn't really matter that I'd wasted my entire day Saturday and all morning today dealing with this!

Ideeli, you need better customer service who at least act like they care when you've wasted so much time dealing with these problems. I will likely never buy from there again now.

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DeeDee L. – Groupon Rep

Hello J R.,

I sincerely apologize for the confusion. Ideeli has begun a new program in conjunction with UPS and the US Postal Service to offer packages delivered to our customers using both UPS as the primary package carrier for your order with the final leg of the package's journey completed by the US Postal Service. We are doing this as a way of offering a more comprehensive service to our customers getting the reliability of both UPS and the US Postal Services along with extending delivery days by offering Saturday deliveries, and package deliveries to your home by the men or women who deliver your mail every day and know who you are.

And I'm very sorry to hear about your customer service experience. We are always striving to improve our service to our members. Please feel free to send me a message with further information, and I'd be happy to look into this for you.

I apologize, again, for the confusion and the inconvenience. If you have any additional concerns, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Best,

Jason Faria
Director, Customer Service

Thumbnail of user kates5
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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December 16th, 2010

I bought a voucher that I thought was absolutely amazing. Normally I would really question something like that which seemed way to good to be true but I thought - it's Groupon they're a huge international company they're not going to rip me off, right? Wrong!

The voucher was for a series of treatments at a salon who I have failed to reach for seven days now. I even made the journey over there and they were closed with a note on the door saying they would open again on Saturday the 11th December but that was the day I was there in the middle of the afternoon.

As disappointing as this was, I thought well at least I can get my money back. I have been trying to get in contact with Groupon for six days and they have not responded to any of my emails.

It feels like I've just transferred a whole load of money to some random bank account for a whole load of grief in return. I have now contacted Paypal to try to get my money back through them.

Overall, a really horrible, disappointing and stressful experience. Not a happy customer!

Thumbnail of user elizabethm48
Texas
1 review
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January 21st, 2014

I am beyond disappointed in the products I have received from this website. About a year ago I purchased a pair of boots from ideeli. About 4 or 5 months into owning these shoes I began to notice severe deterioration on the soles. The sole began to become completely detached from the boot and holes began to develop. I equated this to perhaps just getting a faulty product so I decided to just call it a loss. Recently I purchased another pair of boots from the website. I couldn't imagine having the same bad luck! Boy was I wrong. Within five months of owning these new boots I started experiencing the same exact problem! The sole is completely detaching from the show. I wear these shoes about once every two weeks so this isn't normal wear and tear. These shoes are practically new and they are already falling apart. I wrote to customer service to express how disappointed I was that two pairs of shoes purchased from their website are doing the same exact thing and I was basically given the brush off. Long story short, I wouldn't purchase anything from this website again. Their products are poorly quality and customer service will do nothing to help you. I also have several friends that have experienced problems before as well.

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DeeDee L. – Groupon Rep

Hi Elizabeth,

Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us here on SiteJabber. I'd very much like to look into this for you since we do understand that this is unacceptable. Since we work directly with the manufacturer to receive all products we'd like to let our merchandising team know about these two brands that fell apart so quickly. I deeply apologize for this issue since we don't intend for this to happen with any of our products and we'd like the chance to make this right for you.

Please send me a private message with your order information for the most recent order as well as the order number for the older boots so I can look into this issues and check if a refund is possible for the boots you recently purchased. I look forward to hearing back from you and resolving this issue. Thank you for being a part of ideeli.

Regards,
Jason Faria
Director, Customer Service

Thumbnail of user luciah35
India
6 reviews
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March 17th, 2021

Groupon is best and has excellent service. Staff is helpful and nice. Quality of all products is great. Collection is nice. Once ordered, delivery is fast. Recommended to friends.

Thumbnail of user marinaj17
Texas
2 reviews
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April 12th, 2018

Promised after first time I wasted money on groupon and the company refused to refund money I will never buy another and here we go again. Company refused to honor groupon called they said can trade in. DONT WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU. YOU SCREWED UP BY PUTTING CRAPPY COMPANY UP AND I HAVE TO TRADE TO GET OTHER $#*!TY DEAL. NO NO NO WANT MONEY BACK.

Thumbnail of user markg138
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
8 reviews
15 helpful votes
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November 7th, 2016

Groupon has some great deals.
Although generally you can get similar deals from Wowcher and other coupon providers.
Of course you buy a voucher and so if you have problem with the service or product, that's really between you and the provider as I have found out on a couple of occasions.

The biggest problem is their lack of acknowledgement when something goes wrong.
Last week someone was able to use my Groupon account to gift 11 coupons worth almost £600 from my account and the thief was able to redeem one of the vouchers the same day. These were charged immediately to my credit card.

Now although during a 2 hour chat, their representative Weronika, was able to cancel the vouchers which hadn't been redeemed, it was still hours of my working day and I wonder what would have happened had I been on holiday?

I would advise that anyone that uses Groupon do not link a credit card to your account as it was charged straight to my credit card and took a fair while to refund, during which my credit card could have been settled and I could have been made overdrawn at my bank.

My biggest concern is that Groupon haven't kept any of their promises to get back to me to a: re-assure me it won't happen again and b: Explain to me why their security was so lax in the first place.
I have now been locked out of my account and I can't reset the password.

Hence my biggest concern is that this was an internal mis-use, they don't want to share the information about what happened and they are covering up for someone. In short the company has poor security and processes that could cost their users dearly.

Thumbnail of user mariee14
Arkansas
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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February 29th, 2016

I have ordered everything from Groupon from hotels, trips, and other different items. I must say that I AM and have ALWAYS been impressed with EVERYTHING that they have to offer! GROUPON JUNKIE! I simply LOVE this site!

Thumbnail of user christieh1
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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November 28th, 2011

Stay away my next move is to bring News Help Me Howard into my experience with company of a FRAUD and some way some how get my money back on a order that was never received and is now going on 3 weeks nonexistence also file with the BBB...

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DeeDee L. – Groupon Rep

Hi Christie,

I'm so sorry to hear of any frustration. Can you send me a private message with the details of your experience so I can help? Please know that I'll work to get to the bottom of your concern as soon as possible.

Best,

Jason Faria
Sr. Manager Customer Service

Thumbnail of user billym3
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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October 29th, 2011

I had a problem with a coupon and a business not being very professional. I noted groupon and within 3 hours they had started the refund process! Very smooth, very reassuring

Thumbnail of user lindae1681
Pennsylvania
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June 25th, 2023

I ORDERED 4 FAMILY PACK TICKETS TO ALLENTOWN FAIRGROUNDS JULY 1 AND RECEIVED 4 FAMILY PACK TICKETS TO NEW EGYPT SPEEDWAY SEPT 9. NO PHONE NUMBER TO CALL JUST AN EMAIL. THEY SENT ME AN EMAIL ASKING FOR SPECIFICS SO I TOLD THEM AND NO RESPONSE. I AM OUT $128 AND NO TICKETS AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE. I WILL NEVER USE THIS AGAIN. THOUGHT I WAS GETTING A DEAL. I NEW IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.

Tip for consumers:
I FEEL IT WAS A BAIT AND SWITCH SITUATION. I ENTERED THE VENUE LOCATION, DATE AND TIME AND THEY SENT WRONG VENUE AND WRONG DATE.

Products used:
NONE. THEY SENT WRONG VENUE.

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Thumbnail of user viktorias
Oklahoma
1 review
2 helpful votes
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February 5th, 2011

I have placed numerous orders with ideeli and have never encountered a problem. I have returned two items and was credited with the amount of the actual product. I love ideeli.com!

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DeeDee L. – Groupon Rep

Hi Viktoria,

Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm so glad to hear that you're enjoying your ideeli experience, and thank you for sharing your feedback on this forum. Please always feel free to reach out to us directly at support@ideeli.com with any concerns. Thank you for being a part of ideeli.

Best,

Jason Faria
Customer Service Manager

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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September 27th, 2010

Useless, although the voucher could not be redeemed with the provider of the product, they refused to refund the voucher... Did not return calls
They are beyond contempt, be very wary!

Thumbnail of user lisaw230
District of Columbia
3 reviews
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February 17th, 2017

If you need a budget deal, they are ready with loads of deals for you. You can avail best offers in your nearby places. They are always available with great offers for you.

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Groupon is the largest "daily deal" site, selling vouchers for discounted local experiences and services such as restaurants and spas, as well as travel packages, shopping, and a number of other items. Vouchers are purchased upfront and typically must be redeemed by a certain date, after which time Groupons expire. To businesses Groupon markets itself as a way to drive new customers. Groupon is a public company (NASDAQ: GRPN) and is based in Chicago, IL.

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