View Full Version : Coupons now 35% and not 50%?
bizraterx
11-04-2004, 06:37 PM
Hello I
was wondering why when I use the coupon that I bought form the store it only deducts like $33 out of a $100. Did the
coupon chnage or something because in September when I boutgh another one it was for 50%. Any help would be
appreciated bruce or anyone else. Thanks
belgareth
11-04-2004, 06:53 PM
Bruce posted the following
three days ago under Customer Service:
Guys,
Got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?
Good news? OK. The good news is that you can buy as many discount coupons as you want and they should all work fine.
Mobes, I am not sure what happened with yours, but I suspect you bought them both before using either one of them.
Am I right? More good news is that we will definitely be having the used products sale again at some point. It has
always been our habit/policy to wait until we had a pretty hefty batch of used stuff before releasing them for sale.
The items move very quickly and the hot ones are gone within a matter of days anyway.
Bad news: The price of the
coupons went up from 5000 to 10000.
Worse news: The coupons are no longer 50% discounts, they are 35%
discounts.
It is true that the main problem with the coupon was the loopholes in the arcades and
banking systems, but there was yet another issue to pop up. I can't go into too much detail, but coupons were being
used by folks who weren't even members of the forum.
We will continue to have some sort of points driven coupon
which will at least outstrip the normal 20% coupons by a good deal, and we will continue the used products sales on
and off as we always have and only offer them to forum members.
Bruce
real_wiseman
11-16-2004, 08:37 AM
I think part of the problem
lies in that the coupon code was a plain word, not connected AFAIK to a particular person.
To mitigate this a
hashsum - perhaps md5? - could be used where the users nick on the board as well as an insanely hard-to-guess
saltvalue (!) is hashed together to make the coupon code. The saltvalue should be known to the board admins only of
course.
This scheme is probably still vulnerable to a dictionary attack , but it is still way, way better
than a simple "keyword" as the coupon code.
// rw
Bruce
11-16-2004, 08:52 AM
Yeah, it definitely needs some work.
The old FBC area used to generate a unique password which could only be used once. We need something like
that.
B
MOBLEYC57
12-09-2004, 04:23 PM
Bruce, is it safe now to buy
another coupon for me, or am I going to lose another 9000 points? :think: You know I'm not trying to even lose 1
point if its fer a discount! :frustrate
Goodayandthankyaverymuch! :thumbsup:
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