How we check offers

This page sets out exactly what happens to an offer between a shop publishing it and you reading it on this channel. It is an ordinary editorial process, not a heroic one, and describing it plainly seems better than decorating the site with a badge nobody could honestly earn.

Where a card comes from

Every offer here arrives from a retailer’s own affiliate programme feed — the promotion the shop itself filed with the network it works with, carrying its own title, description, conditions, start date and end date. We do not lift codes from rival coupon sites. We do not buy lists. We do not run a script that guesses letter combinations at a checkout until one sticks.

What is thrown out before anything airs

Anything already finished. If the end date has gone, the card never enters the schedule at all.
Anything not for a US shopper. Promotions the shop has not marked as open to the United States are dropped, as is anything priced in a currency other than the dollar. A saving quoted in pounds, euros, baht or rand cannot be used at a US till and only wastes your time.
Anything not in English. The feeds are international. The channel is not.
Filler conditions. Feeds are stuffed with terms fields reading “n/a”, “-” or “see site”. Those are deleted rather than reprinted as though they carried meaning.
Masked codes. Some feeds supply a code written as asterisks. Where that happens the card either airs as an offer needing no code, or does not air. We never guess the missing characters.
Feed plumbing in the headline. Network notes, internal flags, image filenames and rows whose entire title is the code itself are removed. If the only thing a shop wrote was a bare string, there is no offer to describe.
Whole sectors. Vaping and tobacco, cannabis and CBD, adult goods, gambling, weapons, prescription medicine and high-cost credit are screened out when the line-up is built, then swept for again by keyword across every shop name, domain, title, description and terms field before anything is published.

What an editor does

What survives the screens is read by a person. The headline you see is written here, from the shop’s own wording, so that the figure and the catch are visible in one line rather than buried in a paragraph of marketing. The conditions are checked against the shop’s own promotion page. The channel a shop sits on is set by hand where the automatic filing is wrong. Nothing is published because a script decided it should be.

What happens after it airs

The end date is watched every day. The morning it passes, the card leaves every live list, filter, search result and count on the channel.
It stays visible on the shop’s own page for twenty-one days, struck through and labelled off air, so you can see it was pulled on time.
After that a scheduled job unpublishes it for good. Expired cards are also marked so that search engines do not index them as though they were running.

What we do not claim

We do not claim every code is retested each morning. A channel this size could not do it, and saying otherwise would be the easiest lie on the internet to tell. What we do claim is narrower and true: a person read the card before it aired, the end date shown is the one the shop published, and the card comes down on that date whether or not anyone is watching.

If a code is refused

Most refusals are a condition doing its job — a basket below the minimum, an excluded range, a first-order-only rule, one use per account. Everything the shop told the network is on the card, and the rest sits under See Details. If the card is still on air and the code was refused anyway, that is the single most useful message you can send us. Use the contact page; it is looked at the same working day and pulled if it has gone.