- Messages
- 11,513
- Name
- Stewart
- Edit My Images
- Yes
Today we had a customer call us to say that the discount code he had wasn't working on our website. It turned out there was a very good reason for that, which was that the discount code he had wasn't ours. It wasn't an old one which had lapsed, or anything like that - it simply didn't look anything like any discount code we've ever created.
This guy said he'd got the code from one of these discount coupon sites - he couldn't remember which one - so I did a bit of digging. I was astonished. There are these sites out there which are just making up codes and expiry dates and claiming they'll provide discounts on our website, which of course they won't. And some of them even report non-zero success rates for the codes, which makes even less sense.
Some examples, all taken from different coupon sites: One (5% off at hotdeals.com). Two (£10 off) at voucherhoney.co.uk. Three (15% off at discountonline.co.uk). Four (50% off at freevouchercodeuk.com) Five (£10 off at couponcodehome.com).
What gives? Can anyone help me make sense of this?
This guy said he'd got the code from one of these discount coupon sites - he couldn't remember which one - so I did a bit of digging. I was astonished. There are these sites out there which are just making up codes and expiry dates and claiming they'll provide discounts on our website, which of course they won't. And some of them even report non-zero success rates for the codes, which makes even less sense.
Some examples, all taken from different coupon sites: One (5% off at hotdeals.com). Two (£10 off) at voucherhoney.co.uk. Three (15% off at discountonline.co.uk). Four (50% off at freevouchercodeuk.com) Five (£10 off at couponcodehome.com).
What gives? Can anyone help me make sense of this?
Last edited: