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Offline fruitflan

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Groupon selling comic con badges
« on: June 22, 2017, 01:52:04 PM »
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hmmmmm! How low Groupon has gone to host this.

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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2017, 02:00:04 PM »
Love the photo! Very SDCC.



Tried a reverse search on it, (in a work conference call and very bored right now,) and all that came up was a groupon for Denver Comic Con.

The groupon stuff goes through fanxchange, wonder where the thing originates.

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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2017, 03:51:02 PM »
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hmmmmm! How low Groupon has gone to host this.

this is mind boggling
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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2017, 04:01:06 PM »
Oh wow...Has CCI been informed about this posting? I never knew Groupon would accept 3rd party sellers. Just wow

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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2017, 04:59:31 PM »
This is crazy.  If I were an uneducated SDCC buyer I would for sure trust something from Groupon.

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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2017, 06:58:58 PM »
it's my impression they read the forum....

but an alert might not go amiss.
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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2017, 11:11:04 PM »
My favourite bit on that is "will my seats be together?"

Hahahahahahaha.

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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2017, 11:20:25 PM »
This brings up all sorts of questions about how Groupon operates.  I thought there was way more oversight than this.  But now that I think about it, it might not be any better than Craigslist.  It's so regional that some stuff might slip through the cracks.  That sucks.
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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2017, 03:38:58 AM »
I tweeted to their customer support. I would hate do be someone not in the know who purchased a ticket that way!


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Re: Groupon selling comic con badges
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2017, 10:05:26 AM »
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Love the photo! Very SDCC.



"See kids, this has NOTHING to do with Comic-Con!  But because your parents got suckered into buying fake badges, or badges w/canceled chips, the history museum in Balboa Park is as close as you'll get to admittance into Comic-Con; sucks for you!"