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How would you like to be a business owner offering a discount on Groupon only to lose $20,000 on the deal? It happens a whole lot more than you think.
A London baker learned that the hard way, when she was forced to bake 102,000 cupcakes, after offering a 75-percent cupcake discount on Groupon. The discount obviously sounded too good to Grouponers, 8,500 of which signed up to buy 12 cupcakes for £6.50 ($10), down from the standard £26 ($40) price. Rachel Brown, which operates the Need a Cake bakery in London, had no choice but to hire extra workers and try to bake the cupcakes to satisfy the swarming customers.