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I mainly use it for Whisky discounts on Amazon. Saves me some time!
The usual British attitude to life then! It's all bad but I can't describe what I would do better.
Careful, you'll get yourself banned from there!
I remember when HUKD was good. When people posted deals that were deals. When alerts were worth setting up.
Today, I often find myself posting negative comments when people have just found any old price and posted it as a "deal". The price of being mainstream I guess.
The comments I get back are along the lines, "People are just trying to help. It makes people feel good that they are helping others save money."
Feelings? Why should I care about feelings when deals being posted aren't deals?
"Go away, we don't need your negativity. It's a deal if people think it's a deal."
Isn't that just objectively wrong? It's not a deal because people don't bother to track prices. Instead HUKD is just a place that enables people to "feel good" about any purchase at any price.
Unfortunately people don't track prices (even tho websites exist which do that for you). Heat gets added to just about everything that gets posted there. Very, very, very few things ever get a "cold" rating, unless you've posted something 50% above RRP
In other news, old man yells at cloud (to save the millennials from having to make the effort to post that retort ) Also "first wold problems" etc.
Agreed. The value is up front for the customer, but often business models haven't figured out at that point how to make it beneficial to both parties. Now they make money on hosting this stuff for you, which means you don't get decent offers but offers they want you to see as it makes them money. Sad but true for a lot of services that get monetised.It's the same as everything else, once the masses get involved it goes down hill fast.
Deals I've posted often get declined by a moderator.
Recent one 27% off a Carhartt Sawtooth Parker, something I've wanted for years, but could not justify £200 + on a coat.
Anyway Scottish company established 1955, was deemed risky as they were not either, Currys or Amazon selling smart speakers at half price! They would rather advocate fraud by allowing VPN workarounds on digital subscriptions.
With that said, I think there are nuggets deals out there, but they never make it on their site.
Ps very happy with my coat
If it's true that HUKD only allows links to vendors where they get some kind of referral bonus, then eventually any competitor would probably end up the same.This is interesting, I've often seen deals from smaller British companies who really could use the business and wondered why they never appear on HUKD, that must be why then. It's a crap site then tbh. List everything with a disclaimer that the purchases are your own responsibility and let people get on with it, this nannying and omitting good deals because it's a smaller company is nonsense.
Might be time for a rival?