Groupon Windows 8

ABU said:
What verification is that?
They didn't ask for anything.
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I tried on Saturday after reading Voicy's post and they asked for a licence key. I tried the one from my laptop I bought last year, but it never worked.
 
I bought the Windows 8 one from Groupon. Did a fresh install, no problems. Used the key supplied with the disc.
 
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demax said:
I bought the Windows 8 one from Groupon. Did a fresh install, no problems. Used the key supplied with the disc.
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Exactly, they're just parroting what Microsoft SA tells them, they're not intentionally trying to deceive.
 
i used that link again yesterday
it gave me one discount key/coupon

tried to get another after that but then it requested a win 7 key
strange
 
I am baffled by people getting caught by these deals. I have seen some deals on Groupon that interest me but on each occasion I'll do a quick Google search to see how much of a deal it really is. More often than not the ones I end up purchasing are the restaurant or take away vouchers, or putt-putt or go-karts for the kids, where you can actually see what the normal price is and compare it to your deal.

Just today they had an ice-cream maker listed. Now it caught my attention as we recently bought a Krups ice cream maker with a Kalahari voucher I had won. It "cost" us around R550 and further research at the time showed this to be about the going rate. So anyway, this Groupon one was listed as R426 (R285 off or a 40% discount) but was not the Krups one as it has a capacity of 700ml versus the Krups at 1.6l. The Groupon one reminded me of one I saw advertised at Hirsh recently for under R450. So is it really a special? Especially considering the Krups is at Dion Wired for R550 and Hirsh for R569 currently.

When I took a look today they had sold 540 and there were still 3 days left to purchase. If they are even making R100 per ice cream maker that is a cool R54,000 profit in one quick swoop.

The Groupon one :

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The Krups one:

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ClintZA said:
I am baffled by people getting caught by these deals. I have seen some deals on Groupon that interest me but on each occasion I'll do a quick Google search to see how much of a deal it really is. More often than not the ones I end up purchasing are the restaurant or take away vouchers, or putt-putt or go-karts for the kids, where you can actually see what the normal price is and compare it to your deal.

Just today they had an ice-cream maker listed. Now it caught my attention as we recently bought a Krups ice cream maker with a Kalahari voucher I had won. It "cost" us around R550 and further research at the time showed this to be about the going rate. So anyway, this Groupon one was listed as R426 (R285 off or a 40% discount) but was not the Krups one as it has a capacity of 700ml versus the Krups at 1.6l. The Groupon one reminded me of one I saw advertised at Hirsh recently for around R450. So is it really a special? Especially considering the Krups is at Dion Wired for R550 and Hirsh for R569.

When I took a look today they had sold 540 and there were still 3 days left to purchase. If they are even making R100 per ice cream maker that is a cool R54,000 profit it one quick swoop.

The Groupon one :

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The Krups one:

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or this
http://www.hotsadeals.co.za/2012/12/deal-fail-ipad-4-offering-on-groupon.html
 
ToxicBunny said:
Try closer to 50% profit margin for Groupon I think...
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The thing is their price is about the going price for that ice cream maker it seems but it is most definitely not at a 40% discount that they claim. But yeah, I doubt Dion Wired and Hirsch work on as low a profit margin either...
 
ClintZA said:
The thing is their price is about the going price for that ice cream maker it seems but it is most definitely not at a 40% discount that they claim. But yeah, I doubt Dion Wired and Hirsch work on as low a profit margin either...
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I would actually guess that the price they've listed it as "retail" for, is above going rate for that specific model.
 
ClintZA said:
The thing is their price is about the going price for that ice cream maker it seems but it is most definitely not at a 40% discount that they claim. But yeah, I doubt Dion Wired and Hirsch work on as low a profit margin either...
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They work on a double invoice system. If the sales guys show you the invoices, you will see a markup of 10% - the going rate for appliance "profit" in the industry. What they don't see is the supplier is the companies warehouse who in turn get the item at obviously way less. Sometimes the items will cost next to nothing when they make deals with guys like Amalgamated Appliances.

This way the stores bust their balls to pay rent, low wages and barely make a profit but mostly a loss and all the profit to buy the luxury cars, push up shares and pay out insane dividends comes from the warehouse who is treated as a separate company.
 
cbrunsdonza said:
They work on a double invoice system. If the sales guys show you the invoices, you will see a markup of 10% - the going rate for appliance "profit" in the industry. What they don't see is the supplier is the companies warehouse who in turn get the item at obviously way less. Sometimes the items will cost next to nothing when they make deals with guys like Amalgamated Appliances.

This way the stores bust their balls to pay rent, low wages and barely make a profit but mostly a loss and all the profit to buy the luxury cars, push up shares and pay out insane dividends comes from the warehouse who is treated as a separate company.
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always had a feeling it worked something like this
esp after seeing their cost a few times on their systems
 
ABU said:
What verification is that?
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Top of the page shows three steps, Registration, Validation, Confirmation where it initially only showed Registration and Confirmation.

rodga said:
i used that link again yesterday
it gave me one discount key/coupon

tried to get another after that but then it requested a win 7 key
strange
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Perhaps there is some glitch in their page. Even going on from a Windows 7 machine that is legitimately entitled to the discounted upgrade still goes, normally, to the Validation page requesting a key. I've also had them reject two valid Windows 7 keys (both machines only just purchased in the last month).
 
noxibox said:
Top of the page shows three steps, Registration, Validation, Confirmation where it initially only showed Registration and Confirmation.


Perhaps there is some glitch in their page. Even going on from a Windows 7 machine that is legitimately entitled to the discounted upgrade still goes, normally, to the Validation page requesting a key. I've also had them reject two valid Windows 7 keys (both machines only just purchased in the last month).
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are they still not working?
 
Looks like HomeMark are selling exactly the same icecream maker now... for R449
 
ToxicBunny said:
Looks like HomeMark are selling exactly the same icecream maker now... for R449
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Great sales tactic by Groupon seems to be working with over 500 sales! Idiots, all of them. Wonder how many Homemark has sold in two days?

In saying all if this, we love our Krups one! Had some great fruit sorbets :)
 
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So anyway, I did a fresh install today on my new SSD. Used the key they mailed me and the .ISO clean install file they allowed me to download. Everything works 100%.

Now that I'm running Win8, it says I need to activate it & when I use my same code it says the code is "upgrade only" code. Ma se hare.

So yeah, guess I'm going back to Win7, where stuff works.

(But damn, Win8 boots **** fast on an SSD!)
 
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