city deals & groupons? is it legitamate offers

blueburd

iv recently joined the city deals website;

for example: http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/galway/BarryPowerGolfAcademy/191677

i seem to be seeing amazing deals and offers with massive reduction on prices.


has anyone actually bought from this website? they say they send you out the vouchers.

is it safe to buy off this, and has anyone experience their service yet?

please tell...

thanks

B

sellerbarry

All good. I've used many times.;)

User Friendly

Yip....... its sound . got 4 tickets delivered recently for an event. a while back i got vouchers for a guest house.

blossom180

blueburd wrote: »

iv recently joined the city deals website;

for example: http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/galway/BarryPowerGolfAcademy/191677

i seem to be seeing amazing deals and offers with massive reduction on prices.


has anyone actually bought from this website? they say they send you out the vouchers.

is it safe to buy off this, and has anyone experience their service yet?

please tell...

thanks

B

yep,they are sound

Mike...

Groupon is what Boards deals are copying....fully legit company

ADIDriving

It is real and sometimes really good.

normanbond

sounds like a good deal, useless though if yer not from dublin!

Atlod

What is it? I just clicked the link and 4 pop ups arrived on my screen.
I signed up but all i get is something about Golf..

I do think i already have a few bugs on my PC. It takes 12 Minutes to start up. And there's a new picture of a porn lady as my background.

donegalgirl28

I got an €100 voucher for Direct Holidays but it only cost me €8. Perfect Christmas present! They'll think I'm so rich and that I actually forked out €100 for them.

golfwallah

Citydeals are OK. So are livingsocial.com. These sites bring volume business to service providers, most of whom have fixed costs - so the more customers the better for lower prices.

killbillvol2

normanbond wrote: »

sounds like a good deal, useless though if yer not from dublin!

You can sign up for different cities/areas.

donegalgirl28 wrote: »

I got an €100 voucher for Direct Holidays but it only cost me €8. Perfect Christmas present! They'll think I'm so rich and that I actually forked out €100 for them.

Or they'll have seen the deal and realise what a tightwad you are?

golfwallah

killbillvol2 wrote: »

You can sign up for different cities/areas.



Or they'll have seen the deal and realise what a tightwad you are?

Livingsocial have a great deal up this weekend for Fitzgerald's Woodlands House Hotel and that's in Adare.

Korvanica

golfwallah wrote: »

Livingsocial have a great deal up this weekend for Fitzgerald's Woodlands House Hotel and that's in Adare.

link?

golfwallah

Korvanica wrote: »

link?

http://livingsocial.com/cities/geo?ver=923&ref=affiliates&transaction=1292770136661864295170

donegalgirl28

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Or they'll have seen the deal and realise what a tightwad you are?

Doubt that cos it's for my father and he's technology challenged!

mailburner

i signed up for galway but nearly all the deals i'm getting are
from places located in dublin

normanbond

killbillvol2 wrote: »

You can sign up for different cities/areas.



Or they'll have seen the deal and realise what a tightwad you are?

....not really, signed up for Cork area - so far all I can see coming through for Cork area are dublin offers and the odd national offer eg. Direct Holidays.

killbillvol2

killbillvol2 wrote: »

You can sign up for different cities/areas.

normanbond wrote: »

....not really, signed up for Cork area - so far all I can see coming through for Cork area are dublin offers and the odd national offer eg. Direct Holidays.

I didn't say you'd get relevant offers, I said you could sign up for different areas.

mailburner

whether you've signed up for galway, shannon, cork etc..
todays deal is still based in dublin so it's mostly pointless
even selecting a region at all

User Friendly

mailburner wrote: »

whether you've signed up for galway, shannon, cork etc..
todays deal is still based in dublin so it's mostly pointless
even selecting a region at all

the oakwood arms (portumana)was one of the deals the other day. im signed for the west and southwest.

mailburner

User Friendly wrote: »

the oakwood arms (portumana)was one of the deals the other day. im signed for the west and southwest.

remember that one
one of the few around my area
good deal too for 49euro
the shannon oaks hotel

bladespin

Great site, bought tickets for the Dublin Wheel and the Direct holiday's vouchers.

Not from Dublin but close enough so they're all still great value.

ladyBurd

I love citydeals, totally legit and great offers, boardsdeals is brilliant as well.

Does anyone know if there is a place where you can sell your vouchers if you cant use them? Or buy one that you missed and really wanted??

golfwallah

ladyBurd wrote: »

I love citydeals, totally legit and great offers, boardsdeals is brilliant as well.

Does anyone know if there is a place where you can sell your vouchers if you cant use them? Or buy one that you missed and really wanted??

Good site to sell stuff: http://www.gumtree.ie/

ladyBurd

yea gumtree is pretty good!:)
I was asking as I thought I had heard somewhere that you could re-sell or buy someone elses deals but dont know if there was one for citydeals or boardsdeals!
I missed out on a really good deal a week ago and it would have been a perfect present - I am trying to figure out a way to buy the same deal again!?

samhail

Check them every day myself - have them coming into my email.
Just back from a night out in summershill house hotel in Bray. like 120 instead of 380 for the deal.

dvpower

blueburd wrote: »

iv recently joined the city deals website;

for example: http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/galway/BarryPowerGolfAcademy/191677

i seem to be seeing amazing deals and offers with massive reduction on prices.


has anyone actually bought from this website? they say they send you out the vouchers.

is it safe to buy off this, and has anyone experience their service yet?

please tell...

thanks

B

I've bought vouchers from them with no problems at all.

They're a massively sucessful company. They recently turned down a $6bn offer from Google for the company:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20101204/ttc-groupon-rejects-google-s-6bn-bid-6315470.html

No wonder BoardsDeals are looking for a slice of the market.

batsi

Hello, I paid for the DVD deal on 25Jan, got voucher and rang DVDBYPOST to activate. Got no answer so tried again over a dozen times, still no answer. So I then rang City Deals a few times, no answer, then sent four Emails to City Deals guess what, no reply. Judge for yourself !

Eoinite

blueburd wrote: »

iv recently joined the city deals website;

for example: http://www.citydeal.ie/deals/galway/BarryPowerGolfAcademy/191677

i seem to be seeing amazing deals and offers with massive reduction on prices.


has anyone actually bought from this website? they say they send you out the vouchers.

is it safe to buy off this, and has anyone experience their service yet?

please tell...

thanks

B

I've used them a couple of times with no issues.

The discount they state are a little inflated as the standard price is usually a lot less then they have on the site but they do occasionally have some good offers and it is all legit.

Groupon actually turned down a $6 billion offer from Google last year!

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/03/confirmed-the-groupongoogle-deal-is-off/

seriouslysweet

Do groupon or citydeal do non Dublin ones?

gaoife

batsi wrote: »

Hello, I paid for the DVD deal on 25Jan, got voucher and rang DVDBYPOST to activate. Got no answer so tried again over a dozen times, still no answer. So I then rang City Deals a few times, no answer, then sent four Emails to City Deals guess what, no reply. Judge for yourself !

This happened to me too but i kept trying to call them and did get someone (think it was in the morning maybe 10am) and they cancelled my voucher and refunded my card within 2 days