Halloween 2009 Promotion

POSTED BY Doug ON October 26, 2009 AT 12:49 am UNDER announcements, coupons, promotions
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We love promotions and coupon code giveaways as much as anyone else, so this Halloween we decided to try something a little different. Rather than just provide you with fixed coupon codes via Twitter or our blog, we thought we’d have a little fun instead. What better way then to take advantage of a tradition many children engage in, and allow you to TRICK OR TREAT us?

That’s right, it sounds crazy… and it probably is, but David cooked up an awesome Halloween themed logo and I went back to my PHP roots in order to create a kind of online TRICK OR TREAT feature that allows you (existing or new clients) to trick or treat us. Now, obviously you can’t throw eggs, flour or tissue paper at us but you do have the chance of bagging yourself some random discount coupons or even a years hosting completely free of charge!

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

When you TRICK OR TREAT us, you have the chance of either hitting TRICK or TREAT. TRICK fortunately won’t melt your computer or do anything bad to you, except give you a non-positive response. TREAT on the other hand may give you a random discount coupon (ranging from 5-30% off). Very very lucky users will have the chance of picking up a years free Starter/Blog hosting package – completely free of charge.

To try and prevent exploitation and people from hammering the page in order to try and win a years hosting, we’ve limited each attempt to once per hour. If you don’t get yourself a coupon, or you’d prefer to try your hand at getting a higher valued coupon, simply come back later. We’ve tested the page as much as we can, however naturally we reserve the right to reset or remove coupons if we detect any foul play or coding issues on our part. This promotion (and the corresponding coupon codes) will expire on November 1st 2009.

So what are you waiting for? TRICK OR TREAT us now by clicking the image above! Best of luck.

12 Responses to “Halloween 2009 Promotion”

  • October 26th 2009 01:12:30
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    Wow, what a unique promotion! I’ve already tried it and got a coupon code but I think I’ll try again tomorrow for a better one. :)

    Btw, I’ve been really pleased with the fast support This* has been providing me. Keep it up ’cause I’ll be staying for as long as I can. :D

  • October 26th 2009 02:29:58
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    Haha, I was tricked. Great promotional game, though.

    I found your site via Inside the Webb and thought I’d check it out. Very nice brand you’ve created, I can’t wait to see how the new site design comes out.

  • October 27th 2009 04:01:02
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    Looks like this PHP script isn’t friendly to my IP, which is on a University network (even though it’s unique to my machine). How does the system detect repeat machines?

  • October 27th 2009 04:06:09
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    @Trevor: I’m afraid we can’t discuss how the script works, due to people clearly attempting to exploit it (so far there have been many :) ). If you have a unique IP address and your machine hasn’t accessed the site before, you should have no problem using it.

    If you’d like to mail me your IP address, I can certainly take a look for you.

  • October 27th 2009 04:25:18
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    My IP is 129.116.43.133. Thanks!

  • October 27th 2009 04:32:05
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    @Trevor: It should be working fine now. Please let me know :)

  • October 27th 2009 04:58:21
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    Yay! But then it looks like you tried to give me pennies :P
    “An old lady tries to give you pennies. Gee. Thanks”

    Cheers,
    Trevor

  • October 27th 2009 04:59:55
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    It wasn’t us, it was the old lady ;) You can try again every hour, so come back later and good luck!

  • Ethan
    October 27th 2009 11:54:25
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    Clever promotion. I got treated, but I am holding out for the free package ha.

    Good thinking guys, shopping for webhosting is fun again.

  • Steve T
    October 28th 2009 04:13:25
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    awesome! tons of fun!

    do these coupons only work on completely new orders, or can an existing customer order another hosting package and use this?

  • October 28th 2009 04:15:40
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    @SteveT: They work on all new orders, so existing customers can use them too :)

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