[tsotha]

>I would say there were more people blindly championing Groupon in the lead-up to the IPO than contrarians.

Seriously? Everything I heard was unremittingly negative.

[sunchild]

I definitely don't dispute that – it probably depends on where you hang out online. I saw a lot of rah-rah on the "mainstream" media (CNN, etc.) and aggregators like techmeme.com, etc.