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Myself, and my circle of friends, use Groupon and none of us could be accurately described as "coupon chasers". Frankly, articles like this come off sounding angry, jealous, and ignorant.

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I do sometimes buy Groupons to things I know I will probably not go to again. For instance there was one for a new vegan restaurant and as I'm not a vegan I have a limited tolerance for pizza with weird fake cheese stuff on it.

It's certainly an exaggeration but I don't think it has no merit.

But within your experience, has the loss leader been justified in the restaurants/services you used Groupon for? Did you see yourself going again, possibly several times, for the business to recoup its loss?

Absolutely, more often than not.

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