Comments on: Groupola's iPhone deal and a wonky server creates mailing list of upset customers http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/ Startup and Technology News Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Groupola gets its wrist slapped by OFT as 192 iPhones go missing http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387258 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:43:45 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387258 [...] been found by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading of operating ‘bait pricing’ in its much publicised iPhone promotion held last [...]

]]> By: Secretsales.com’s iPad promotion – what went wrong? http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387257 Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:13:05 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387257 [...] feeling a sense of deja vu here, then it may be because Groupon clone Groupola tried to run a similar promotion with iPhones a few months back and ran in to the same kind of [...]

]]> By: Jon http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387256 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:23:38 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387256 Haha sorry technically no I didnt but I indirectly won £400. So never mind eh.

I see the bitterness is still lingering 2 weeks on. Shame you didnt get one.

]]> By: Jon Boy http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387255 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:20:28 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387255 You didn’t actually win mate. You bought it for £99

]]> By: Jon http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387254 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:46:24 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387254 I actually won one of the phones. You guys are just bitter because you didn’t get one!

]]> By: Bob http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387253 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:14:49 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387253 Lovely scam, wonderful sca-a-m,
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]]> By: darby go http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387252 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:38:33 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387252 Isn’t this just a new take on premium rate phone line scams?

]]> By: Martin http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387251 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:27:01 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387251 When the site finally loaded just after 11.30am (after hours of trying) it told us they had sold 212 phones and they had not sold out – the “deal was still available to buy”. A couple of minutes later they claimed to be sold out having sold only 200.

Got to hand it to them – they generated great publicity (Guardian et al) promoting this among the thousand free iphone scams out there, will be interesting to see how they deal with the backlash of this debacle.

]]> By: Angry Customer http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387250 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:22:50 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387250 Well I am not sure if the old saying will work for Crapola “all press is good press”. This most certainly is not the case.

Fine their facebook page had a few more people join today but that was purely to post hate mail and create anti groupola pages.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Groupola-Sucks/113003648747127?ref=ts

For being a “tech” company they aren’t very quick at understanding the need to increase their bandwidth or what not for the added traffic.

Just like the iphone 4 they were selling they have problems and instead of holding it differently people will most certainly just switch off to the many better sites our there.

Keynoir , Likebees and crowdity to name a few.

]]> By: James Salway http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387249 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:05:02 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387249 Apple would never at let people buy that many iphone4′s – for a start they were only allowing one-preorder per unlocked phone from the start.

Can they “prove” 200 people received an iphone I wonder or was it all part of an elaborate vouchercode scam?

]]> By: Ian T http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387248 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:34:18 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387248 200 X ~£300 = only £60K.

]]> By: Ian T http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387247 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:33:16 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387247 Being cynical, even if the offer exists, it might be a great way for them to invest some cash to generate what would appear to subsequent innocent investor a large customer base.

It’s quite astonishing, but many companies are still being valued in the same way as lastminute 10 years ago – # registered users (with little evaluation of how they were acquired, quality, recency, frequency).

]]> By: mike http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387246 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:34:36 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387246 1 Million against Crapola

http://www.facebook.com/pages/1-Million-Against-Groupola/136404733046008?v=wall

]]> By: Terri http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387245 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:34:17 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387245 btw.. they sold 207 phones, then 202 phones, and then confirmed there were only 200. we went through to pages where we actually put down our credit card details.. and then get kicked out.

]]> By: Terri http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387244 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:29:54 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387244 Yeap… they’ve deleted all my posts on their FB fan page, and have removed me from “like” as well. All I did was to give them some constructive feedback to ensure that they don’t mess up their own reputation !! Well done Groupola and I wish you every success with your mentality !

]]> By: Pete http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387243 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:19:31 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387243 This was obviously a con just like there iPad give away.

]]> By: Groupola £99 handsets too hot to handle « A UnixGuru's Blog http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387242 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:36:06 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387242 [...] Link1 , Link 2 [...]

]]> By: Anton http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/02/groupolas-iphone-deal-and-a-wonky-server-creates-mailing-list-of-angry-customers/#comment-387241 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:21:28 +0000 http://eu.techcrunch.com/?p=23373#comment-387241 Rubbish – they never had any iPhones in the first place. Everyone knows it!!!! Groupola are a pile of cr@p!!!

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