Baker Forced to Make 102,000 Cupcakes for Grouponers

[IceBergSLiM]

This thread is making me hungry for cupcakes.

Wait a minute. dozen cupcakes normally $40
75% discount dozen cupcakes now $10
she's losing $ 3 per batch (presuming that a batch is 1 doz)

Means that her cost is $7 per dozen. Selling for $40? That's a heck of a markup . . .

now your math is wrong...her cost would be somewhere around $13 and she could just be talking labor and ingredients and not overhead like rent /utilities.

 

[Jeraden]

Wtf kind of cupcakes normally cost $40 for a dozen??? $3.33 for a single cupcake??

 

[Phokus]

Why the hell are retard businesses still using groupon???

 

[PottedMeat]

Wtf kind of cupcakes normally cost $40 for a dozen??? $3.33 for a single cupcake??

they better have weed in them or be at least 6" across

 

[Ns1]

Wtf kind of cupcakes normally cost $40 for a dozen??? $3.33 for a single cupcake??

That's pretty normal these days for cupcake shop cupcakes.

 

[Gibson486]

Wtf kind of cupcakes normally cost $40 for a dozen??? $3.33 for a single cupcake??

that is the going rate for a gourmet cupcake....not the supermarket ones.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Wtf kind of cupcakes normally cost $40 for a dozen??? $3.33 for a single cupcake??

Really big muffins?

 

[Macamus Prime]

She admits to making a mistake,... not sure how some of you justify throwing a moltov cocktail into her home while she sleeps.

 

[uhohs]

Wtf kind of cupcakes normally cost $40 for a dozen??? $3.33 for a single cupcake??

there's lots of retarded gourmet cupcake places these days that charge $3+ for a freaking cupcake. :/

 

[cheezy321]

Herp a derp biz owner wants to blame someone else for their decision.

Who chose to leave the deal uncapped? The biz owner
Who chose the revenue split? The biz owner
Who chose to work with groupon? The biz owner

Boo hoo. Learn to live with your own decision. There are many businesses that groupon ends up working out really well for. No need to demonize the company because of a business owners stupid decision.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

the title should be
"baker takes orders for 102,000 cupcakes, stands no chance."

 

[kranky]

Groupon stock down 14% today.

 

[KeithP]

I am not sure who the bigger idiot is. The baker or the person that wrote the story.

The baker's stupidity has already been dealt with adequately in this thread, no need to rehash it.

The story however...."Baker Forced to Make 102,000 Cupcakes for Grouponers" WTF? They make it sound like Groupon has some responsibility here. The baker forced herself to make the cupcakes. She put no restrictions on the number sold and she priced them at a loss. The same result would have happened if she had advertised the deal in any medium that reached the same number of customers.

-KeithP

 

[Wyndru]

Title makes me picture her being held hostage by an angry mob of grouponers.

 

[PottedMeat]

there's lots of retarded gourmet cupcake places these days that charge $3+ for a freaking cupcake. :/

that's $3/ea when you buy 40, even more for 1
is this the bakery? http://www.need-a-cake.co.uk/cup-cakes/

jesus - 5£ for one cupcake

 

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it must have been that other discounter, 'Poopon'

 

[sdifox]

She's obviously not smart if she doesn't think 8500 new customers x who they tell is a bad business decision. i'd be willing to bet she recovers the losses quickly.(assuming her product isn't complete shit)

how big do you think the 40 dollars a dozen cupcake market is?

 

[bignateyk]

how big do you think the 40 dollars a dozen cupcake market is?

You'd be surprised. They're pretty trendy right now. We have a cupcake place that opened up down the street from my office about a year ago that sells $4 cupcakes. I have no idea how they are still in business. I thought they would be out of business faster than the cereal restaurant that opened up selling $5 bowls of fruit loops and other cheap cereal.

 

[sdifox]

Groupon stock down 14% today.

there was a glut of gourmet cupcakes on CL 😎

 

[sdifox]

You'd be surprised. They're pretty trendy right now. We have a cupcake place that opened up down the street from my office about a year ago that sells $4 cupcakes. I have no idea how they are still in business. I thought they would be out of business faster than the cereal restaurant that opened up selling $5 bowls of fruit loops and other cheap cereal.

Well, if it was that big, she would not have to have resort to groupon.

 

[Ns1]

how big do you think the 40 dollars a dozen cupcake market is?

There's probably at least a dozen within 20 miles of where I'm currently at (Los Angeles)


cupcakes are tapering off a bit after they exploded onto the scene a few years ago

 

[The Boston Dangler]

You'd be surprised. They're pretty trendy right now. We have a cupcake place that opened up down the street from my office about a year ago that sells $4 cupcakes.

yeah, you can find them in any city for a while now.

 

[bignateyk]

Well, if it was that big, she would not have to have resort to groupon.

Yeah I don't know how these places stay in business. Though I guess with only 1 employee on average they would only need to find a few suckers a day to pay $5 for a cupcake to make the rent for the month. 😀

 

[sdifox]

Yeah I don't know how these places stay in business. Though I guess with only 1 employee on average they would only need to find a few suckers a day to pay $5 for a cupcake to make the rent for the month. 😀

not really. Assuming cost is 5000 a month, that would be 1000 cupcakes a month or 50 per work day.

 

[sdifox]

There's probably at least a dozen within 20 miles of where I'm currently at (Los Angeles)


cupcakes are tapering off a bit after they exploded onto the scene a few years ago

crazy people. give me the bigass muffin costco makes anyday :biggrin: