Groupon, Inc. (GRPN) Message Board

There is more than one factor contributing to this decline. A competitor trying to gain market shares is only one of them. Someone could well be trying to buy this company. Shorts are trying to cover at lower prices. Insiders want to take the company private. Some investors are trying to get a lower entry point. I doubt that any of them are trying to protect the world against Groupon or consumers from getting 50 percent discounts on their purchase of goods and services. Only a fool would believe this assumption.

Most investors are figuring out what Bloomberg is doing here. They can see that something is not right with those articles. They are associated with professional people who bet against this stock. Most people can see from the recent financial reports that this whole thing made no sense. The company reached a projected break-even point and profit for Q2E. The success model depends on its ability to reduce operating expenses ( marketing expense included) from here on out. This is being negated by Sena and Bloomberg with a negative public relation's campaign against the company. Only people who bet against this company stand to benefit from this. Consumers are not complaining about getting a 50 percent discount on goods and services.

If Bloomberg did one positive story to inform consumers that they can get 50 percent discounts on goods and services by purchasing to Groupons, gross billings would likely go up. They don't want to give the company this type of positive marketing unless it pays for it. Sena also suggested Groupon reduce its discounts to give more to merchants. It does not sound like he is liking out for consumers to me. According to his model, we all should pay more for goods and services. I doubt he is looking for any investors or consumers except short sellers and himself.

Shorts have made so much money shorting this POS that they could buy Bloomberg.

Sentiment: Strong Sell

I read the article. Bloomberg did not use the word "dumping."

Great post. Wow. Comparing Bill Gates and his trust to this debacle. Shameful, disgraceful and pathetic.

U r tooooo stupid go kill urself.

Notice that the Shorts conveniently left out the following:

“Eric is not selling a single share of his Groupon stock,” a spokesman for Mr. Lefkofsky said in a statement Friday."

Acccording to E-Trade. In the inside investors section the buyers are 21,000,000 and the sellers are 160,000 shares. But there is not a story on that. It makes you wonder why the price is droping and the insiders are buying.

Sentiment: Buy

I heard that he transfered the shares to his butt and then to the toilet. The story from my sources did involve dumping too.

Sentiment: Strong Sell

You dont need to sell your shares with losses - just "transfer" them to your private fund to get money out of it ;)