Dreamhost Coupons for New Year 2009
Here’s the thing: I’m ok with Dreamhost. I have not yet had a beef with them. I hear I probably will, but until then, they’re ok. I’ve gotten a few friends on with them. I also posted recently about their 2008 end of year coupons. We only found three, after using several different browsers and doing a full cookie cleaning and the like. The rundown of the previous deals: 1 year of hosting for $9.24 (777), 2 years of hosting for $64.44 (222), and six months of hosting with domain purchase for $9.95 (2008).
Now they’re doing new deals, and of course they expire today (they expired today then too, whatever today was). They’re 202, 220, 224, 226, and 228, in no particular order. 202 gets you two years of hosting for $10.74, 220 for $21.48, 224 for $107.40, 226 for $150.36, 228 for $193.32. I saw 228 first, and knew something was up. I’d suggest 202, but you can pick whichever code you like. I suppose if I find any more, I’ll post them.
Edit (Jan 6): Grey tells me he’s seen 202 after I’d posted those, but I haven’t been able to see it again. I’ve since seen other codes: 221 ($42.96), 223 ($85.92), 225 ($128.88), 227 ($171.84), and 229 ($64.44).
I was going to hook my girlfriend up with an account of her own for $10.24 (a price she can afford!), so I tried 202. It told me I had to pay $42.96.
I started resetting Safari for more codes, and Grey ran into the 202 code that day (it’s VERY rare to see) so obviously this is a problem on Dreamhost’s end. I tried an older code, 222, to see if it still worked. It gave me an error that the coupon was no longer valid. If 202 was no longer valid, it’d give that message, instead of a higher rate. I tried 220 today (it’s $21.48, also reasonable but not as reasonable) and it too gave $42.96!
Also, I made a horrible, unedited screencast of how to use the coupon. Some youtuber said “THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!“, so I guess it worked for someone (or they just liked the $42.96, or perhaps they had another code they didn’t know how to use).
I sent dreamhost an e-mail (which is still “open” and has a message age of 2 days 6 hours) about this:
Hello,
I know you’re rotating coupons on your front page, just use a different browser or delete your cookies and refresh and there’s another code. That’s fine, it makes sense. One of those codes, 202, is advertised as 95% off for two years, or $10.24. I want to use that one. I tried to use that one. I got $42.96 as the price, after taking $171.84 off of $214.80. That’s not 95%!
I know the older codes from last year, like 2008 and 222, give me expired notices, so technically 202 shouldn’t change, it should be replaced, so something must be wrong with it.
This is in addition to previous tickets YOURMOM and MYDAD, where I’m trying to get my girlfriend a separate account.
Thanks.
Also, if you choose to use a subdomain instead of registering or transferring a domain right away, and something is “wrong” on the page, it resets to mycoolsubdomain instead of saving what you’d typed in there, so that if you don’t notice, the next time you submit it whines that you typed in a subdomain that’s already taken.
