The Groupon Deal that Wasn’t Such a Deal

Some of the 1,435 Groupon users trying to redeem a March 2 deal that offered $50 worth of “Personalized Printing Online” from Vistaprint for $10 to customers in Baton Rouge, LA, found that the Vistaprint site initially lacked the field for entering the coupon code at checkout...The new site included the missing entry field for the Groupon code. It also readjusted sales rates so that a flat-rate 30 percent—or, in some cases, 31 percent—discount applied to all items.

...the prices for an item can depend on the day it’s purchased or the site through which users access Vistaprint.