So you all know how
we have been talking about careful shopping, not getting carried away with
everything you like and instead becoming a smart shopper, the myths
about shopping that cost you money, etc. While I was trying to save on my
hosting subscription renewal yesterday, I stumbled across a rather unusual site
that showed up for one of the search terms (I am not going to say what that
was). This site called itself CouponCodeSeptember2013.com - gosh, was I
surprised. How can someone actually have a site for a calendar month? Do they
actually shut down the site after a month? I thought it might be some
untrustworthy site but decided to check it out.
However, I was
pleasantly surprised. The site was clean, loaded fast, did not throw any
pop-ups and appeared simple. I explored the stores page and found out that they
had thousands of store coupons listed there. Moreover, they had a nicely sorted
list of 90%
off coupons from several participating stores! Most deals had set
expiry dates on them as well. I thought of going one step further. I tested one
random deal for a store that I usually buy from. I used a coupon code from
their page and it actually gave me a discount on my shopping cart.
While I was telling
myself that it is great to see some useful coupon sites still out there (by
useful I mean a site where a coupon code listed would actually work and give a
discount); I still couldn't understand why couldn't they come up with a better
name? Or maybe, they are trying to improve their visibility or traffic by
"stuffing" the words in the domain name itself? If that is the case,
it sounds pretty like a cheesy game to be playing.
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