Hot coupon world Review

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If you're not in the "click", then your out.

budget conscious

Pros

none

Cons

Promotes bullying, Promotes fraud, Promotes censorship, Bans whistle blowers

JUL

2008

Although Hot Coupon World promotes that they help enforce faud, they choose what "offers" and "coupons" are listed on the board to their preference. If you do not agree with the way they think, yet you break no rules nor any of their terms of service, they will ban you. If one mod does not like you, the entire message board mod does not like you. Mods act more like the mob on this website.

Additionally, there are MANY conversations about fraudulent behavior on this board which violates manufacturers agreements. Discussions about how to print multiple copies of coupons (more than 2), how to get more than 1 store card in your name, and providing links to coupons that were distributed via email. Additionally, in their auction forum, they SELL coupons, which is illegal. Additionally, they direct link to CVS store coupons and direct link to Walgreens store coupons, which is against those stores terms.

If they do not like the way a thread is transpiring, they will edit your thread ENTIRELY, to the point where it does not say the same thing as originally. They censor people who are "whistle blowers" and praise those who discuss fraudulent behavior.

If you are a newbie, they will be welcoming as they are experts above newbies. However, those who are experienced and know the tricks, and know when something is fraudulent, they don't like and are intimidated by them.

There is a group of people online who have started their own group who have been banned from HCW because of HCWs Nazi-like behavior, I suggest you look for it. If however, you belong to that group and HCW, you will be banned just for belonging tot he other group. I know because I had only posted once or twice to HCW, and was "chatting" with a fellow HCW, or what I thought was a fellow HCW, and told them I belonged to this other group. Ten minutes later, I was banned. I never published anything publically about belonging tot he other group. I had not made a post in nearly 2 weeks. Yet I was banned, with the reason being that I belonged to another group. The mod that banned me was Queenofthehivemomof5.

Upon talking with members of the other group, I found out this is common practice at HCW and learned from other members what they had been banned for.

If you like couponers who are Nazis, this is the place for you. If you are a manufacturer or a store executive, I highly suggest you take a very close look at the posts on their website. On the surface you will see "stickies" about fraud, but if you look deeper into the posts, you will see things you do not like and consider fraudulent behavior and sometimes, illegal behavior.