At last! A food one again for Boston! But that's not why I'm posting.

I learned something. Enough people, or a specified total of Groupon orders have to occur for the deal to go "live" and what you bought gets fulfilled. Today, it's in the hundreds. So it's a sort of a bid. I have always focused on how many of the deal are left -- e.g., when they will run out of the total number of deals offered. I didn't know that they, well we, have to reach a minimum threshold of Groupon orders of that deal. If the threshold is not met, then our credit cards are not charged. They claim to be very safe, and friends who have "belonged" - signed up to get the daily offers before me - say that they are.

OK, just looked. Minimum number of orders required was 300. (Looked daunting at 6:00am, when the offer opened.) They say the deal "tipped" at 8:15am -- e.g., hit 300. Now, the count is up to 1514. Sheez, everyone going to that restaurant will be using one. Wonder what the upper limit of orders is.

Oh - what is it? $30 of food at a (particular) Japanese restaurant for $15. Looks like I bought three "Groupons".