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Groupon Not Doing So Well On Wall Street

Posted by Unknown on from the bad-business-idea-is-bad dept.

bdking writes "Shares of the daily-deals site were up Tuesday, but Groupon's ride on Wall Street since going public in early November has been almost all downhill. And there's no evident catalyst to reverse the slide." From the looks of it, Groupon is blowing all of its money attempting to expand in the face of ever-growing competition in a market with trivial start-up costs.

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  1. trying to figure out how this would work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If 50,000 people each agree to buy 10 shares of AAPL, Apple will give them the stock for 20 percent off and then give half the proceeds to Groupon?

    Nah, I don't think they'd go for that.

    1. Re:trying to figure out how this would work by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Funny

      Come on mods, that's funny! I wonder what would happen if you tried to sell Groupon stock via Groupon....

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    2. Re:trying to figure out how this would work by davidbrit2 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously, and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.

    3. Re:trying to figure out how this would work by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's very similar to when eBay acquired Paypal. Paypal sold itself on eBay and eBay paid for the auction using Paypal. No one is still entirely sure how that works, but one investor was quoted as saying, "Favorably."

  2. Hey, Google... by boristdog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we just go ahead and take that 6 billion you offered earlier and call it squaresies?

  3. Get your groupon stock now! by sociocapitalist · · Score: 5, Funny

    50% off, limited time only!

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  4. Re:Show me the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I stopped reading at your last comment because the fixed width font hurts my eyes.

  5. Re:Stocks 101 by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because Microsoft is the only company that actually has an Outlook.

  6. Re:You're wrong - Groupon is a Ponzi scheme by hxnwix · · Score: 2, Funny

    same as a Ponzi scheme

    Dude, please. Not this garbage again.