{"id":252,"date":"2011-03-15T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/thisoldhouse\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-05-05T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T15:22:09","slug":"groupon-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2011\/03\/15\/groupon-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupon fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned last July about being excited about the Groupon I bought for a lawn care service<\/a>. I called last July to redeem it, but they were completely booked through the end of August. (Wow, that was fast!) Then I called in September, gave my name, and the guy asked me where I lived. I told him my city name, and he said, “Okay we’ll be there on Thursday.” And hung up. I was confused, and as I suspected no one showed up on Thursday. Then a few weeks later, he called back and left a message. I was out of town and didn’t particularly feel like dealing with it at that moment (and it was already October, which is about when our grass went dormant for the winter), so I never called back.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, we tried to mow our grass<\/del> weeds, but our mower wouldn’t work. So I figured it would be a great time to redeem that Groupon! Since I’m in the process of doing other things to my yard, I thought I’d also see how much they charged for those other things as well. I finally got a chance to call them today.<\/p>\n

When I mentioned wanting to redeem the Groupon, the guy told me they are no longer accepting Groupons, and that I needed to contact Groupon for a refund. Crushed! I was so looking forward to something like this, and I’m really bummed about this whole situation. This was the first Groupon I’ve ever purchased, and it makes me wary about buying more in the future. Does this kind of thing happen a lot?<\/p>\n

Reading the discussion page for this deal on Groupon’s website, it sounds like everyone has had trouble. Not a good advertisement for their business, in my opinion! I’m still bummed, though. I hope Groupon refunds my money soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned last July about being excited about the Groupon I bought for a lawn care service. I called last July to redeem it, but they were completely booked through the end of August. (Wow, that was fast!) Then I called in September, gave my name, and the guy asked me where I lived. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}