Today I woke up a warrior, in a good way, and it really bothers me when they try to deceive us and take us for fools. Applelised It is not just a website where we talk about rumors, leaks, launches, advice, etc. about the products Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), but we are also interested in offers that may interest our readers and, above all, in those deception attempts to our readers (and those who are not). That is why today we denounce a new "trap" when selling an apple product, in this case, by Groupon.
Inflate the original price and show an unreal discount
That is exactly what is happening in a Groupon offer. On June 30 we denounced "The traps of MediaMarkt in the day without VAT" and today we find a similar case.
The portal of offers and discounts Groupon offers the 5GB iPhone 16S at € 549, € 50 less than its current price. So far everything perfect because you can have an iPhone 5S and save a little money that is never bad. The problem is that, relying on his now famous expression «Original verified price» they have inflated the original price at € 100 showing a false saving of € 150 corresponding to 21%. Here is the graphical test where you can compare the current origin price of the iPhone 5S at Apple and the supposed origin price that Groupon argues to offer a false saving:
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- iPhone 5S on Groupon
As it appears on the product sheet, the original price was verified on August 28, 2014, nothing more and nothing less than almost a month ago. It seems that they are the only ones who have not found out that a new iPhone has come out and that the previous models, iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, have dropped in price since last September 9.
Users have the right to clean, transparent and truthful information. Perhaps many people are unaware that iPhone 5S costs € 599 (and not € 699 as Groupon claims) therefore, when they purchase the product, they do it based on false information, a lie:
- the original iPhone 5S does not cost € 699 but € 599 therefore ...
- the saving is not € 150 but € 50
With this information, the user would have accurate information on which to make the decision to buy or not, whether it is worth buying an iPhone 5S in Groupon saving € 50 or not. Actually More than 100 people have bought this iPhone 5S on Groupon based on false information.
From Applelised We require Groupon to correct any inaccurate information provided and to try to keep your information up to date.
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Link to the Groupon website (we hope that when you enter all the erroneous information has been corrected).
Related: "The traps of MediaMarkt in the day without VAT"
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Updated and fixed
As a means of communication that we are, in Applelised we feel obliged to make public all kinds of "errors" that we may observe, in this case regarding apple products. And likewise, when the responsible company in question kindly acknowledges its failure and proceeds to rectify it, it is rigorous to acknowledge it.
This is the case of GROUPON. After publishing this article, Estefanía Lacarte, Groupon's communication manager, contacted me directly via e-mail, acknowledging the fault they had and announcing that they were correcting it.
Indeed the wrong offer of iPhone 5S It was suspended and you can find this offer again with its correct and updated data as you can see in the following image:
iPhone 5S Groupon
If you want to have an iPhone 5S for € 100 less you can do it here.
From Applelizados we appreciate the quick and correct response from Groupon and, especially, from Estefanía Lacarte, its communication manager for Spain and Portugal.
Groupon is now helping a company scam us by selling coupons for the iphone 5C. The trick is that they sell coupons for a refurbished iPhone that happens to be shipped from the UK. When the mobile arrives it doesn't work and the company kindly tells you to send it back so they can send you another one. But you cannot send lithium battery phones by courier so you cannot return it because if you remove the battery you will lose the warranty. Groupon of course is not responsible and they say talk to the company, which continues to send damaged phones knowing that they cannot be returned.
I have bought an iPhone too and it comes from the UK and I fear the worst.
Has someone bought and got it right or wrong? I want opinions thanks.
Groupon is a scam !! After verifying several iPhones with battery and screen problems, customers should be told that they are Chinese-repaired phones, non-original battery displays, and that they do not have any kind of warranty in an applestore.
An insured and groupon scam is his accomplice, the company:
iPhoneMe.
Contact: info@iphoneme.it.
If I sent you a mobile of the model you buy but ... it failed, it would not work well and that guarantee they offer ... Ha ha ha is their answer when you tell them that it does not work well. TO YOUR COMMITMENT, AS THEY ARE IN ITALY DOESN'T GIVE THEM THE SAME. I REPEAT IPhoneMe. THEY ARE SCAMMERS.
Good morning, I wanted to comment on a complaint, I bought two smart bracelets on February 2, they were for Valentine's Day, they served it in 4 or 10 days but it has not arrived on March 6, I do not agree with this lie about the delivery period What seems inadmissible to me is that I sent 4 emails to the address given on the page, I sent two boring messages to sales and no response. I had bought several times and without problems but this is unheard of, if they do not have the product that you say, what you cannot do is pay for the product on February XNUMX (they do not forget that) and after a month and a half they do not have received it.
I hope that these messages help them to learn the first lesson in sales, the customer is always right and must be informed of the incidents of their orders.
All the best
Everything I have said has happened to me with Groupon
They are thieves ... they sell fake mobile phones under renowned signature such as iPhone but not iPhone, it is Chinese product, you realize when you receive the phone that it does not work well, in packaging beyond shabby, without invoice and with Chinese charger with sticker china not original iphone, and that does not work ... you go to them and ask for a bill and they have the face of telling you to go to iphone !!! but how?? I bought you not an iPhone… scammers… I bought in September 2016 and as of today nothing… my phone is about to die and it cost me 130 euros, I am aware of what an iPhone costs but they sold it to me as a late version and not for 15 euros, which is the maximum that a mobile potato like this would be worth, but for 130 euros ... I have denounced in the OCU and also Groupon for selling fake products without contrasting their professionalism, which is obviously zero ... and why Since 6 months ago I asked them for the CIF of this company they did not send it to me and on their page of course ... nothing more than a contact box appears, which is illegal since a website that sells online must have a conditions section and a section in which it is fiscally identified, when buying through groupon I could not realize that this company did not meet these requirements ... since I thought that coming from Groupon it would be trustworthy ... in favor of Groupon to say that as soon as it is I communicated it, they recalled the product ashamed as if they did not know it but to this day that I am also a warrior I have entered the internet and I see all this ... which comes from dates further back than my purchase ... and to this day I still have the problem ... no one has returned the money, nobody has sent me an official invoice other than the purchase voucher (enough to accompany a complaint along with the proof of payment by card). If it has also happened to you… report it to iphonme.it… don't let it happen to anyone else !! The incredible thing is that here I see that there are a lot of cases and this 'company' continues to operate and swindle ... COMPLAINT !! Fake mobiles, black mobile market, thiefs… Share !! do not buy to iphoneme.it SHARE !! bomb the internet !!