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Complaints surge over group coupon deals

Deal hunters are consuming deep discounts on everything from restaurant meals to boat tours, but they are also starting to complain about troubles with these offers in increasing numbers .

Both the Consumer Federation of America and Web watchdog  SiteJabber.com have noted the surge in this relatively new genre of deal offerings. Consumers get lost in the marketing gimmick of the daily deal and don’t see what’s actually involved, including short expiration dates or requirements for additional purchases.

That trouble with the small print is the biggest problem consumer agencies also have seen with the coupons. “Marketers online are becoming increasingly misleading and aggressive in the way they sell products and services,” says Jeremy Gin, co-founder of  SiteJabber.com , a community of consumers who evaluate web offerings. “As a result, it is now more than ever incumbent on consumers to do their research on online businesses — read reviews and read the fine print — before they buy.”

Gin says that Groupon had earned a three out of five rating on his site, and had more than 100 people warning against it, while LivingSocial rated two out of three and had 100 warnings; both sites were listed as “not recommended.” He notes many users also report snagging great deals without any issue.

“The major trend in consumer complaints we see on SiteJabber surrounds sites that market their services as one thing, but in the fine print they are something less desirable,” Gin adds. “This serves to increase sales in the short term at the cost of customer satisfaction and long-term brand loyalty. These types of sites are not so bold as scam artists who merely steal money and never return emails. But instead these sites often respond to complaints by pointing to the terms of service and essentially saying, ‘Sorry you agreed to it. No refunds’.”

Susan Grant, the consumer protection director at the Consumer Federation, only sees this trend growing. “I am not surprised that agencies have begun to get complaints about group coupons and would expect that to continue,” she says.  ”Any time you have a new form of discount opportunity you’ll have problems with the terms not being clear.”

When Grant was working on the Consumer Federation’s recently-released list of Top 10 consumer complaints , another category that was growing was about the “recovery” scam, which this year targeted consumers trying to dump their unwanted timeshares. The Top 10 list was distilled from 252,000 complaints gathered from consumer agencies in 18 states by the federation, the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators.

Gin and Tonic | A Self-Confessed Foodie

The traditional Gin and Tonic (3 parts tonic, 1 part gin, lime, and ice) began, from what can tell, around 1825. It was used by British soldiers as a way to make tonic water, which contains the anti-malarial ingredient quinine, into a much more palatable form. Nowadays, the amount of quinine in tonic water has dropped significantly, which makes the gin less necessary for tonic intake

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