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Domino's pizza freebie mistake
On most freebie sites this morning was an offer for a free medium pizza at Domino's - no strings attached - for customers who placed their order online and used code BAILOUT.
I thought about posting the offer (it was all over the Internet by mid-morning) but ultimately decided against it because I couldn't verify it was legitimate. There was no mention of it on the Dominos pizza web site.
Well, it turns out the offer was all a big mistake.
I love freebies and other fun offers. But lately I'm finding a number of offers posted on the web that aren't the real deal: They either require some unethical maneuvering to get or somehow exploit the system. For example, I see a lot of printable coupons designed for a one-time by a specific individual getting circulated around the Internet for anyone to print out. (One word of caution: Companies like Old Navy are wising up to this and are putting tracking numbers on many of these coupons so they aren't good after one use.)
In any case, I don't post those here. But I do post offers that I've done some checking on so I know they are legit — offers that there is little chance you are going to have trouble with once you get to a store or restaurant. The good news? There are plenty of those to go around.
posted by Lesley Mitchell @ 4:00 PM |
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Actually, the high value Old Navy coupons (like the $50 and $75 off ones) have always been good for one use only, from the time the promotion started. They've always had unique codes. It's just that after the website first launched some managers would override the coupons that wouldn't scan, but then they got a memo from corporate to stop doing that. And some of the legitimate unused coupons wouldn't even scan! It happened to me after the third week. I was basically accused of fraud by the manager when I tried to use my $75 Q and had a horrible experience when I called customer service, only to have it scan just fine in a different store three days later. I have no idea what went wrong, but the amount of hassle ON gave me made the five $75 Qs my husband and I have been able to get between the few weeks they were giving them away not even worth it. Old Navy doesn't even want to honor their legitimate promotions, and that's after they expect you to sit in front of your computer all night for the stupid coupons! So they have really sunk in my opinion, and I'll never shop there again, unless I have a really killer coupon. Domino's, on the other hand, provided a great example of customer service by honoring this accidental coupon code.
So ON now has an aggravated customer, even though they gave me $375 worth of free clothes, and Domino's has an even more loyal customer (since I've been ordering from them for a while already) for the price of one pizza. Domino's clearly wins in terms of both cost and customer loyalty.
I don't understand. I did the Dominos free pizza code and it worked for me.
It wasn't a legit code or promotion, but it was posted all over the web. Domino's said it honored the first 11,000 requests as a gesture of goodwill but cut it off after that.
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