I've been seeing a lot of Groupon ad-banners here on B3D these past couple months. I didn't even know what the company was until there was some news a while back that Google had apparantly tried to buy them up and failed, but I didn't pay it much heed as I didn't see I had a reason to, plus the company had a faint aroma of spam to it I thought.
Anyway, today, out of sheer curiosity, I clicked one of those banners to see what the deal was. It offered all-you-can-eat discounts of 50%, and who says no to that?!
I was presented with a relatively simplistic screen with some graphics on it and two input fields: one for my city of choice, and another for my email address.
So it IS spam then. Or is it? Everybody hates spam, don't they? So how can these guys have billion-dollar revenues and stuff like I heard reported?
I'm confused.
Anyway, today, out of sheer curiosity, I clicked one of those banners to see what the deal was. It offered all-you-can-eat discounts of 50%, and who says no to that?!
I was presented with a relatively simplistic screen with some graphics on it and two input fields: one for my city of choice, and another for my email address.
So it IS spam then. Or is it? Everybody hates spam, don't they? So how can these guys have billion-dollar revenues and stuff like I heard reported?
I'm confused.