Wedding photography Groupon deal

Just saw also there is a wedding package for 50 at the Thurock hotel at half price for anyone looking:

http://m.groupon.co.uk/deals/dealbank_en_gb/the-thurrock-hotel-restaurant-non-accommodation/48089822

Research the photographer carefully. We have had some Groupon scare stories on this forum with photographer no shows or cancelling just before the wedding. This tog "may" be fine and I am casting no doubt on them....

Peter

^^^^^^^^^ What Peter said above, do your research and make sure you see hundreds of photos from one wedding. Groupon is a business killer if you are selling a service, a lot of photographers do it in the hope you upgrade to a higher package. That package for £199 is for 3 hours and 100 7x5 prints, he will be working for nothing once groupon take 50% from that price. I wish groupon would disappear if only to save businesses from bankruptcy.

Agreed there, not sure how they're managing to shoot for a literal loss!

It's £200 for the £500 package.

Stuff like this is used as typical bait. So, the photographer lists on Groupon offering a discount off of one particular package yet has several others on their site.

The photographer is only bound by groupon to offer the £500 package. If the couple wants a more expensive package then it's excempt from the discount and the photographer doesn't have to pay groupon anything.

Guy gets traffic for his site. People email him asking for the discount, he refuses but offers a smaller discount.

The photographer could take on all the cheap groupon stuff then cancel and refund keeping only the full day packages. Or, when emailed about availability he could say that the dates are only available for all day bookings.

Oh dear, sounds like it could be a bit of a nightmare. I had no idea about any of that, so naive.

Thank you all so much for your wise words of warning. I had already booked my photographer but maybe my initial post wanting to help others was a little misguided. Apologies.