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by eth 5367 days ago
It's interesting, but perhaps counter-intuitive (at least for me).

Based on what I have seen from your "users" (or army of employees) people are requesting deals from businesses that they already like and frequent. Generally speaking, you frequent a business because you like and receive what you perceive to be fair value for what the money you spend there. If I go to the cafe down the street 5 days a week because I like it and am willing to pay full price, I have no real reason to ask them for a discount - I am satisfied paying full price.

Now, it does make sense to me to request discounts from places that I want to try as a way to get me in the door. However, actually requesting a deal from these new places requires work on my end, whereas I can just sit around and lazily let Groupon/LivingSocial push new deals to new places on a daily basis.

Cool idea, but not something I see myself using.