Group buying deals - refunds

Has anyone had to get refunds from any group buying deal sites? I had 2 lately, both with Groupon. The first deal was delivery only and they changed their delivery area to only be downtown and then part of the deal that was included was a business that had since closed – very quick refund from Groupon on that one.

The other one was a deal we tried to cash in this weekend for a food place – worst service ever! Tried to cash in our Groupon, the person had about 10 pages of printouts and glanced at one page and said our deal# was not on her list. When we asked her to look through the rest of the pages she then told us the deal was not starting until dec. 10th – when it was actually starting october 12th….all this as she held two other groupon printouts she had accepted that day???? It was very bizarre and made me never want to go to that place ever again – too bad for them, it’s near our house and we would have been weekly customers for sure in the winter. I was very pleased with Groupon again, refunded it immediately, and also the one I’d bought as a gift. I haven’t had to do any returns on other sites yet, thankfully!

Has anyone had problems cashing in the group buying deals? We’ve had good luck with most, and have found some new favourite places in the city through it! For some reason we didn’t go to Dutch Meat Market too often, since buying the Teambuy this summer we’ve gone in so many times for meat, frozen stuff, cheese etc.  What places did you guys discover with deals?