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Has anyone else noticed a decline in the quality of offers over the past six months? I've literally went from subscribing to several livingsocial/groupon products to gradually opting out after one too many crappy massage-related offers. In general I see fewer food-related offers.

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I stopped using Groupon because businesses [in MA] were becoming mean. In most of the food deals I cashed in on, once I mentioned I was using a Groupon, their faces would go sour and it would make me feel cheap... something about the entire atmosphere would change. Anyway, I stopped using Groupons because now they just make me uncomfortable.

I am not affiliated but this service is clever in that you don't have to reveal to the waiter that you are using a coupon. You send in a picture of your receipt and they give you a refund. They can also steer diners towards off-peak hours. http://www.dailygobble.com

What city are you in? Bigger cities should have several to many options per day. The top-billed deal is usually meh for me but clicking on All Deals gives me something I want almost every day. I find that with the larger number of deals, I want to buy more often, even if the % of appealing deals is lower. That is for Chicago which is the biggest, oldest, etc market for Groupon.

I'm in New York and I subscribe to offers from Groupon, Google, LivingSocial, Yipit, Amazon, OpenTable, and Yelp (the last 3 aren't too frequent). I personally feel that the number of interesting offers has stayed the same or gone down in the past 3-6 months.

I don't have any data on this, but many of the deals seem to be in the $10 for $20 range. I feel like deals are a waste of time if they aren't for at least $20 off, since I often feel like the original product was overpriced by at least $10.

Interesting. I feel like there are more high end offers now, with a nice range of prices. But I only subscribe to Groupon and a couple of tiny tech ones.

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