Like thousands of other twitter users, I waited with great anticipation this morning for the “secret” email to come through from @groupola announcing when the unbeatable SIM-free iPhone 4s for the knockdown price of £99 – as opposed to its normal retail price of £499 would be available.
Armed with aforementioned URL I, like so many disgruntled and angry potential customers waited and waited and waited to get through. The result was the same whatever one tried – FAILURE with a capital “F” !! no hablo ingles, no bloody chance more like – was it ever going to happen? Probably not!
The rule of thumb should always be – if it sounds too good to be true then it usually isn’t! You have to call into question what Groupola were thinking about with this. If they had bought 300 phones at £499 to sell on to the lucky few that managed to get through they would have suffered a huge financial kick up the backside:
300 *£499 = -£149,700 + £29,700 (300 *£99) = LOSS of £120,000
(UPDATE) – now led to believe only 200 phones were available to buy therefore figures now lead to a Loss of £80,000.
I think I’ve worked out the math correctly!
So with such a huge hit, are we to really believe that there were 300 available at all? The Groupola website crashed under the inevitable strain of traffic and twitter was rife with suggestions that the whole exercise was nothing more than a con. I’m not suggesting this is the case for one minute but questions will be asked and for sure Groupola will have taken a huge hit on the negative publicity that is sure to circulate twitter and blogs around the web over the next 48 hours.
Groupola’s public …
I have been a member of the Quidco family for over a year now and been very happy with the savings I’ve made on purchases, £254.92 so far – not bad is it!
