Minx AND Brow Wax £11

[jeanettes]

Hi ladies,
Groupon are offering Minx and Brow Wax for £11.00.
Am I missing something here - how can there possibly be any profit in that?
Am I misunderstanding the figures or is someone working for nothing, doing hours of Groupon work for maybe even a loss (regardless of the time and rent etc to be taken into consideration).
Is it financial suicide or clever - what do you ladies think?
Is there a site somewhere selling Minx cheaply that I am unaware of?
JES x

 

[Daydreamersammy]

Groupon is just a Website with offers and vouchers. Yes it is cheap but when they go to that place they may see others things they like therefore they go bk to that salon x

 

[jeanettes]

Thks Sammy, I realise how Groupon works but putting in all those hours for free, in the hope that the go-anywhere cheapest service client will then put their hand in their pocket to upgrade to a reasonable priced treatment?
How many of you out there would put that effort in - Just interested to see how others think?
JES x

 

[Nailjems]

My friend had a salon in Manchester and did a groupon deal of £20 for individual lashes, facial, spray tan, minx toenails and pedicure!!!
They groupon sales team really pressurised her into the ridiculously low price as they obviously take a commission per sale!
Part of my job is managing and advising small businesses and when I questioned why she had done this she said to introduce her business to new clients! And help cash flow by getting a lump of money in her bank account quickly!
Needless to say she sold hundreds of packages and couldn't manage the workload, and a lot of these "new clients" were travelling for miles for this amazing deal so had no intention of returning for other treatments.
Wish she had asked my advice initially and I would of said that £20 for a pedicure and minx would have been sufficient to attract new "local" clientele.

 

[jeanettes]

Ah, now that's where I was coming from, thinking along the same lines. Surely you would exhaust yourself for no profit. I can understand people buying them as gift vouchers at this time of year but even so the price is so ridiculously low given the price of Minx and postage.
x
Unless someone knows where Minx is considerably cheaper?

 

[Nailjems]

I might be the only person on here who doesn't like minx anyway!!! I much prefer the individuality of nail art! Sorry xx

 

[Sher16]

I might be the only person on here who doesn't like minx anyway!!! I much prefer the individuality of nail art! Sorry xx

Heehee you are the first person I have stumbled across with that view, me too!!!

Infact i wish i could sell my minx :-( lol never offer it !!

 

[jeanettes]

lol, I do have some clients who aren't struck on it but would say its 50/50 - and I enjoy Minxing so that's a bonus.
Best wishes and thanks again x

 

[jeanettes]

@ Sher 16: Love your business name.
x

 

[Sher16]

Thank you!

I had a steady minx clientele over summer. But if im really honest i just dont enjoy it.....

Id prefer to sit and do shellac or paint something by hand!

Now any minx custom i get i direct to a girl who i know who has a salon - bad or what!!! I just dont like it :-(

Xxx

 

[kezza*]

Ah, now that's where I was coming from, thinking along the same lines. Surely you would exhaust yourself for no profit. I can understand people buying them as gift vouchers at this time of year but even so the price is so ridiculously low given the price of Minx and postage.
x
Unless someone knows where Minx is considerably cheaper?

Each to there own, the poor person doing this offer, hasn't thought about this. She couldn't possible cover the cost of product's on this let alone anything else.

People have different opinion's on this. With Groupon your not going to make a profit. It's a way of getting business in at the end of the day. If someone wants to do a Groupon and make no money that's up to them, but at the same time you shouldn't be out of pocket from the cost of product's.

 

[jeanettes]

I think that clarifies what was actually niggling away at me - not the Groupon thing (I don't mind that, competition and advertising is good); and not the ridiculously low price (if someone is willing to take all their time up with meeting all the purchases for nothing, then each to their own); but it was that they surely must be out of pocket?
Thanks for your thoughts.
JES x

 

[Sher16]

I think, from what I have seen until I seen the price tag of this one (11£) that they must only cover cost of product, no wage etc or margin.....

For example : semi perm lashes are on alot for £20-30 when average prices here in edinburgh are approx mobile £50-80 and salon £70-100. How they are motivated to spend 90min doing a gorge set of sp lashes for only £20 is beyond me but I understand that it hopefully generates repeat clients.

Unfortunately I (along with everyfriend, family, friend of friend etc i know of) has only ever had a bad experience of purchases on group on. Everything I have bought has been awful, broken, dodgy or falsely sold. So it puts me off entirely! :-(

I know alot of people who have had groupon beauty deals & I am yet to hear a success - stories i have heard include sp lashes but got clusters ie bulbs applied to skin with sp glue, shellac with no cnd lamp and nail surface FILED with a file not even a buffer.....why my friend let someone do that is beyond me when she has seen me apply shellac before. Also, a friend of my mum got a luxury facial and eve prior to it a male called to advise her the salon had moved and where was she coming from as no parking at new place.... She said she would take the train and where was it from the station and he said he would meet her and escort her to salon, she said no that she would like address and will make her own way and he refused and said he would have to meet her otherwise she wasnt welcome. She cancelled - thankfully!!! Groupon wouldnt refund the money to her, yet I have had 2 refunds so know its possible if there is a valid reason!

Buy cheap pay twice in alot of cases. :-( (not all, but alot...)