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by lawnchair_larry 4834 days ago
If you really don't see how LivingSocial caused more problems than the Yellow Pages, I don't think we will be able to start a discussion.

Nobody was forced to buy those mortgages either, right?
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achompas 4834 days ago
To be fair to parent, they may not know about the terrible experience of a local business who works with Groupon, LS, or another daily deals site.
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jlgreco 4834 days ago
Oh, I don't know. Yellow Pages seems like a far more pervasive problem, even if they do lack the severity in harm. Yellow Pages litters their unwanted obsolete crap everywhere. Those coupon startups are worse than littering, but lack the reach.
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