How the desk checks
What happens to an offer between a stall publishing it and it being printed on PriceZilo.
This page describes exactly what happens to an offer between a stall publishing it and you reading it here. It is an ordinary editorial routine rather than a heroic one, and setting it out plainly seems better than decorating the site with a badge nobody could honestly wear.
1. Where the notices come from
Retailers publish their promotions through affiliate networks — the same feeds that carry the tracking links. PriceZilo reads those feeds and the stalls’ own public campaigns. Nothing on this sheet is copied off another coupon site, and no code is guessed, generated or borrowed from a forum.
2. What is thrown out at the door
Most of what arrives never reaches the sheet. Out go:
- Anything already past its closing date on the day of the read.
- Anything priced in a currency a US shopper does not pay in, and anything written for another market.
- Anything not in English. The feeds are international; the market is not.
- Network plumbing filed as though it were an offer — commission notes, test rows, blank titles, placeholder codes masked into asterisks.
- Standing store policies dressed up as promotions. A lifetime warranty is a fine thing, but there is no date to print beside it, so it is not a notice.
- Every restricted sector listed under code standards, screened by name, by domain and by a keyword sweep across every title, description and terms field before anything is published.
3. What a person does with the rest
What survives the screens is read by a person. The headline is written here from the stall’s own wording, so that the figure and the catch appear in the same line instead of three paragraphs apart. The conditions are checked against what the retailer published. The section a stall trades on is set by hand wherever the automatic filing gets it wrong. Nothing goes up because a script decided it should.
4. What happens after it is printed
- The closing date is watched daily. On the morning it passes, the notice leaves every list, filter, search result and count on the sheet.
- For twenty-one days after that it sits on the stall’s own page in a block marked came off the line, struck through and dated, so nobody has to wonder where a notice went.
- Then it is unpublished. Expired notices are never counted in any figure printed anywhere on this site.
- Reports from shoppers are read and acted on. A code reported as refused is checked and pulled if it has stopped working.
What is claimed, and what is not
PriceZilo does not claim that every code is re-tested each morning. A sheet this size could not do it, and saying otherwise would be the easiest lie on the internet to tell. The claim made here is narrower and true: a person read the notice before it was printed, the closing date shown is the one the stall published, and the notice comes down on that date whether or not anyone is watching.
When a code is turned away anyway
Most refusals are a condition doing its job — a basket under the minimum, an excluded range, new customers only, one use per account. Everything the stall told the network is printed beside the notice, and the longer wording sits under See details. If the notice is still standing and the code was refused all the same, that is the most useful message the desk can get. Send it from the contact page; it is read and the notice is pulled if it has gone.