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sweetwaterfish wrote:

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Just wanted to share this with the forum. My best friend and chief competitor just did a groupon for soft washing. He sold 117 jobs (exterior washes) in 24 hours. Here is the problem: groupon wants a 50% discount and keeps a 50% Commission. He sold a basic house wash valued at 200 for a 2000 sqf house. Overage footage costs .10 cent per foot. He's getting only $50 per house for the wash, but was hoping to upsell the roof & driveways, etc.

Turns out the groupon customers are pretty cheap and not buying the upsells. Plus he even had a great deal of existing customers buy the groupon so he's getting screwed on those deals. He even took a couple of jobs away from me that I had scheduled.

Word of warning, be very careful and consider ramifications if thinking about advertising here.

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 My friend owns a restaurant in Tampa, did a Groupon. The cheap groupon customers did not even leave a TIP!

Never ordered dessert or appetizers either, just wanted something for nothing! He lost his azz, never again he says!