Comments on: Why Coupon Codes are Bad on Websites

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:42:43 +0000

Hi J,

Unfortunately I suspect they’ll continue with this model for a long time, even though it has issues…

By: J

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:26:48 +0000

HA- well it’s a year after your post and the same thing just happened to me at Goduddy today.

Tried two different current codes and the price never changed downward.

I walked away from the cart.

By: ScottW

ScottW — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:38:17 +0000

I wholly agree – I came to this same realization years ago. For our shopping cart at photopost.com, we remove the coupon code box when we’re not having a sale.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:40:45 +0000

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the tip, it’s good to know. I’ll keep it in mind if I can’t find a coupon code on Google.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:40:14 +0000

Hi Scott,

Yes, you’re absolutely right. A while back I bought a dell laptop (the XPS m1330) and I noticed the coupon code. Back then it was brand new, just released, and it was the only laptop with an SSD (Solid State Drive). I knew better than to look for coupon codes for this particular configuration, but I still had the temptation and did!

Back in the day, when the net was newer it made sense to have coupon codes on the checkout process. People didn’t really utilize search engines. And it works for magazines and direct mailing. But when you have Google at your fingertips, not so much…

By: bob

bob — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:49:10 +0000

retailmenot.com is the best place to find these hard to find coupon codes, or oyu could just l2google

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:52:10 +0000

Steph I can associate with your frustration, I feel exactly the same way when buying from Dell. As for GoDaddy, take a look at any of DL.TV, Systm or pretty much any of the Revision3 podcasts.