why you get 50%¬ able to see 80% discounts at hostgator black friday
Did you visit hostgator in the mood of getting the 80% discount on hostgator black friday? If you were early enough you would have got the 80% discounts,but now all the 80% accounts are sold out and now the hostgator homepage shows only 50% discount all users irrespective of the location.
I was one who was very much frustrated about this move from hostgator of ending the 80% discount accounts very fast.I was one the last step of the signup page where i was stuck with an error saying 80% sale ended and you can get only 50% discount.
HOSTGATOR CHEATED US WITH THIS BLACK FRIDAY DISCOUNT DEAL.Yes,when thousands of people where to signup for the 80 percent discount coupon,they had set a limit of only 100 sign ups for the discount.So i had no way to only signup for the 50% discount.But i any i made my mind because even it saves me a lot of money rather than other days.
Below is the screenshot of tweet from hostgator staff in reply,
Now you can grab the normal 50% discount through this link Grab Hostgator black friday 50% discount
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2 Comments on "why you get 50%¬ able to see 80% discounts at hostgator black friday"
Here is what Bretn said about it:
Hi Everyone,
We are going to honor the 80% off for anyone who placed their order between 5am-9am. In order to take advantage of the difference please open a ticket by emailing sales@hostgator.com to request we refund the difference.
As you can imagine we are beyond swamped. According to alexa “hostgator” became the number one searched term on the internet beating out walmart, best buy, newegg, and even facebook. We had over 1,000 people in our billing system at a time trying to order. The amount of traffic we saw was 5x greater then an above average slashdot affect.
I knew the billing system would most likely fail to handle the amount of traffic, but what somewhat surprised me was that the hostgator website itself went down.
A few things to keep in mind……
In affiliate commissions alone we will be paying out over 2x the amount of total money collected.
On a whole it will be impossible for us to ever make a profit off anyone who placed an order at 50% let alone 80% off.
We do not have anywhere near 50% profit margin so when you take 50% off we are are losing money before even considering affiliate commissions.
Financially this offering made no sense in any shape or form. If we had offered this deal to existing customers it would have most likely put us out of business. I’m extremely sorry to all current customers who feel you were cheated.
So why did we do this deal?
The amount of exposure and brand awareness we gained from running this deal is priceless.
We are stealing thousands of customers from competitors who would have never of thought about switching to hostgator.
We are able to do something crazy every once in a while without putting ourselves out of business.
I’d love if you all could help me spread this posting to other forums and blogs that have similar discussions going.
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Brent Oxley
Thats a great move from hostgator. Appreciate it. So all people who signed up between 5.00 to 9.00 can claim a refund.