{"id":3035,"date":"2013-01-05T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2013-01-05T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T20:12:41","slug":"its-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-loses-a-groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/its-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-loses-a-groupon\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s all fun and games, until someone loses a Groupon"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was expected, so if you’re upset, perhaps it’s time to understand that just like “Fight Club<\/em>“, the first rule of the game is not to talk about it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Those that discovered the weakness, hole or lack of thought in the GoDaddy Groupon process<\/strong><\/a>, decided to share it with thousands of others.<\/p>\n

When you pick a penny from the register to supplement your bill at the grocery store, that’s one thing. When thousands decide to pick quarters and dollars, that’s another.<\/p>\n

Playing by the rules is the basic rule in life, and spare me the drivel about how not playing by the rules gets you ahead of the game. I don’t need to hear unethical blab.<\/p>\n

The GoDaddy Groupon codes are being reversed, as we speak; as long as you used more than one for your post-Christmas domainpalooza. There is a reason why the Groupon PDF has terms and conditions on it, it’s not just so that you can game the system.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And yet, even at this point when it’s evident that GoDaddy is actually reversing the multi-Groupon credits, some fools are advising others to create new GoDaddy accounts<\/strong><\/a> to apply the codes that are deemed invalid. Just how soon will GoDaddy close that window as well, I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

Human greed<\/strong> and gullibility<\/strong> both start with the letter ‘G’. So does GoDaddy and Groupon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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