Most coupon pages you find in search are lying to you. Not deliberately, usually — they were accurate once, nobody went back, and a code from four years ago is still sitting there collecting traffic. We used to do this too. This page explains what we changed.
The problem with coupon pages
A discount code costs nothing to publish and everything to maintain. Retailers rotate codes constantly, restrict them by region, tie them to a minimum spend, or quietly kill them after a campaign ends. A page listing twenty codes is almost never a page where twenty codes work. It is a page where somebody stopped checking.
Google treats this as deceptive, and it is. If you arrive here looking for a discount and leave having pasted six dead codes into a checkout, we have wasted your time and taken a commission from the purchase you made anyway.
What we do instead
Every code on this site is tested at checkout by a member of our team before it appears. We add the qualifying product to a real cart on the retailer’s real site, apply the code, and confirm the discount lands. Then we record the date.
A code is shown publicly only if both of these are true:
- Someone on our team has confirmed it at checkout
- That confirmation happened within the last 45 days
When a code passes its window, our system hides it automatically. It does not wait for us to remember. This is enforced in software rather than by discipline, because discipline is exactly what fails on a page nobody has opened in eight months.
What the dates mean
Each code shows when it was last checked. “Checked today” means today. “Checked 12 days ago” means a real person confirmed it twelve days ago and it may since have changed — retailers do not warn us. Treat the date as the confidence level, because that is what it is.
When we have nothing
Sometimes a retailer has no working public code. When that happens the page says so. We would rather tell you there is nothing right now than pad the page with codes that will waste your time, and we would rather lose the click than earn it dishonestly.
Where the money comes from
We earn a commission when you buy through our links, including when you use a code we listed. This creates an obvious incentive to make deals look better than they are, which is precisely why the verification date is on every row and why unverified codes are hidden rather than shown with a disclaimer. The system is built to remove our discretion.
See our affiliate disclosure for the full picture.