{"id":1411,"date":"2012-01-11T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flyingninja.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2012-01-11T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:49:15","slug":"over-930-people-just-got-screwed-out-of-2-10-from-groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Over 930 People Just Got Screwed Out Of $2.10 From Groupon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mom always said &#8220;research what you&#8217;re buying!&#8221; Well maybe she didn&#8217;t but it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s considered common sense however we&#8217;ve all neglected to do it ourselves. I got an email today from Groupon for a remote controlled helicopter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1412\" title=\"Groupon Helicopter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.flyingninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-12.32.53-PM.png\" alt=\"Groupon Helicopter\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-12.32.53-PM.png 500w, https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-12.32.53-PM-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I  bought one of these. I bought one a while ago on Amazon for .99. The copter is actually pretty good at flying. A lot better than similar ones in the &#8211; range I&#8217;ve tried. The helicopter is available on Amazon right now for .90 + Free Shipping. You can get it <a title=\"Helicopter Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/8499000606\/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a> It just makes me wonder how many people had seen this and just went for it when it really wasn&#8217;t a deal. I&#8217;ve purchased a few things through Groupon thinking it was a deal but when I see something like this it takes my confidence away from the company. Not only is Groupon causing a lot of problems with some businesses, it&#8217;s posting deals that aren&#8217;t even deals!<\/p>\n<p>Different merchant, same helicopter. Have you bought a deal that wasn&#8217;t really a deal?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/8499000606\/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1413\" title=\"Amazon Syma Helicopter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.flyingninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-12.44.44-PM.png\" alt=\"Amazon Syma Helicopter\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-12.44.44-PM.png 500w, https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-11-at-12.44.44-PM-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom always said &#8220;research what you&#8217;re buying!&#8221; Well maybe she didn&#8217;t but it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s considered common sense however we&#8217;ve all neglected to do it ourselves. I got an email today from Groupon for a remote controlled helicopter. I bought one of these. I bought one a while ago on Amazon for .99. The copter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[687,685,688,690,689,691,686],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","tag-deal","tag-groupon","tag-helicopter","tag-lower","tag-price","tag-screw","tag-screwed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}