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austenallred on Sept 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Groupon Is Laying Off 1,100, Shutters Operations i...

[citation needed]

Seriously though, the Groupon deal wasn't always ideal for every company, but how do you justify calling it a "deliberately calculated scam?"

seiji on Sept 22, 2015 [–]

things like http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2011/10/groupon-ipo-in... or http://www.thinktrade.net/ipo-fraud.php or http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-20/groupon-lo... or http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-04-04/groupon-ipo...

(edit: we're talking about groupon the corporate entity, not the product(s) they offer.)

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