The websites that claim to host coupon codes are almost always invalid, what purpose are they serving the website host?
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Clocking them all those referral credits when the business’s website pops under the coupon code window.
Some of them rely on users to submit ones they used. Think of it as an aggregator of shared coupons.
Sometimes these codes have quantities and so they run out of uses. Others are specific to the user who submitted them and are single use. Some are tied to a region and then others, of course, have since expired.
Coupons are meant to be targeted marketing. When you try to broaden their use beyond their intended target, they aren’t as reliable.
These sites aren’t maintained. The owner sets up the site and allows users to post codes. The site generally doesn’t verify the codes, nor does it put in much effort to identify or take down expired codes. They make money through affiliate programs (a few cents anytime someone clicks through to a retailer and buys something) and advertising.
In the modern era, coupons have exactly one purpose, which is to serve as a measure of advertisement effectiveness. You give coupon codes to a streamer/YTer, or clip-out coupons to a magazine or newspaper or whatever. The code of the coupon is trackable, so if you use, for example, a coupon with the code “MarkiplierGamerSups” to buy expensive gatorade, the company that issued it now knows “that guy came here from Markiplier”
Enough such data, and they can map who or what they should advertise with, and they shotgun blast LOTS AND LOTS of these out. I’m a streamer with less than 100 daily views and I still get advertisement offers. However, companies generally will only be advertising with someone for a certain amount of time, so when they stop advertising, the coupons are no longer useful to the company. They are, for this reason, typically set to expire shortly after the ad campaign is over. Like, a couple of months after. Sometimes this is done with an expiration date, sometimes it’s done with a use limit (“The first 200 people to use this code will get…”).
The sites that host these are just trying to show you ad’s, just like everyone else. The quality of the site doesn’t matter that much, though I’m sure they try, but it’s a massive uphill battle to track the millions of quickly expiring codes. Either way, you go there looking to save money, and they make money off you by showing ads.
People are motivated to post codes. Nobody Is motivated to spend time checking old codes and removing them.
Bings built in shopping module absolutely rules at finding promo codes. I will literally switch browsers mid shop and readd items to my cart to use it. It’s found me 30% off codes for the last two places I bought from
Most of the places you see them are on third party sites that collect them and never bothered to clear them once those coupons have expired
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