does your GRPN curve?

Quote from Sayid:

I couldn't get shortable shares. No Put options available either.
The first 30 minutes would have been a great short.
More...

You cant short IPO's......Plus the float is so low market makers are scrambling for shares.....
 
Greatest business in the world? It's a novel idea but it's an easily copied business model. Competitors are present already. At some point businesses will be less reluctant to give their "stuff" away at 1/2 price because it doesn't guarantee return customers. Case in point, I grabbed a four-some for $26 per round this summer and it's not likely I'm going back to the course -- ever. It was a long drive but it was just too good a deal to pass up. Think that course will do that again if there's enough people like me? There's likely to be "hype" around the stock issue but as far as it being the Greatest Business in the World...nothing could be farther from the truth.

Quote from myoffices:

we have been doing coupons for 10 years and I can tell you its the greatest business in the world. Its a spread business. Selling discounts is a win win win. If you short Groupon you are out of your mind. This IPO is more about visibility than earnings. They should be profitable in 18 months and thereafter pure profits. Its people getting businesses to give clients coupons and getting those coupons to the consumer.

Its like a coupon Bank- They don't make anything and they can use machinery to automate most of their operations.

Groupon is a real concept.
More...
 
You are assuming the bargain hunters are not a one-and-done, which many are. See my earlier post.

Quote from myoffices:

For every consumer that comes in with the coupon that creates brand loyalty. The additional business that comes in from the coupon is additional so why would a company not want that extra traffic. Buy one get one free means that an additional experience of distributing the brand occurred.

For new products coupons make it easier too create brand awareness. Coupons are quantifiable marketing tools. They have trackable bar codes and offer marketing research for the brand.

As a business its a pay to play marketing tool.
More...
 
Quote from mastertrader456:

You cant short IPO's......Plus the float is so low market makers are scrambling for shares.....
More...
do a search and get a better broker while u are at it.
 
Quote from zdreg:

do a search and get a better broker while u are at it.
More...


You can not short on the first day of trading since there is no stock available for loan since no one is a holder of record until the stock settles....
 
As determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is in charge of IPO regulation in the U.S., the underwriters of the IPO are not allowed to lend out shares for short sale for 30 days. This is Series 7 stuff......
 
Quote from mastertrader456:

As determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is in charge of IPO regulation in the U.S., the underwriters of the IPO are not allowed to lend out shares for short sale for 30 days. This is Series 7 stuff......
More...

shmuck? another series 7 prop moron.

How long to this turd breaks ipo price? Not long.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top