$20 Amazon GC for $10. Today only.

[Muse]

No, it's by email.

Thanks, so I'll get an email from livingsocial.com? I haven't gotten anything yet.

SD is crazy with several new pages per minute.

I went over to SD but couldn't find any threads about this. There was a sticky at the top for today's deals with a link to the deal, that's all I saw on the page. Did a search for "Amazon" (control + F), but this deal didn't show up. Are there threads?

 

[Vikroda]

I went over to SD but couldn't find any threads about this. There was a sticky at the top for today's deals with a link to the deal, that's all I saw on the page. Did a search for "Amazon" (control + F), but this deal didn't show up. Are there threads?

Yes, that's the crazy thread with almost 6000 posts and >600k views. Good luck sifting through that monster thread.

 

[abaez]

Thanks, so I'll get an email from livingsocial.com? I haven't gotten anything yet.

You should. Here's what I got from them when I bought something earlier this month. It was about a day after I ordered:

 

[nick1985]

I bought one but never got an email.

???

 

[richardycc]

wow, I've gotten 6 deal emails from LS already. Let the spamming begin!

 

[Aharami]

hah. and their site is so messed up that I cant even edit my email preferences. I'll be surprised if I ever get the amazon GC

 

[tedrodai]

I clicked the link and was gonna buy this gift card, knowing exactly what I'm going to spend that $20 on, but then I said to myself...I know nothing about this company. At the very least they are going to spam the hell out of my email and snail mail (which I hate much worse), and I really don't feel like giving them my credit card also. So I passed on this offer, like I should with so many others...

 

[nick1985]

Why do I feel like I just paid $20 for nothing and am going to have to dispute a charge.

ugh

 

[bradley]

I bought one and so did a family member, both of us received this e-mail.

Hey xxxxxxxxxx!
Thanks for getting in on this sweet deal from LivingSocial:

$20 Amazon Gift Card*
We'll send you an email tomorrow letting you know how you can get your Amazon Gift Card* code

Don't want to print out your deal? Install our LivingSocial iPhone application to redeem right from your phone!

Thanks for LivingSocial!
- The LivingSocial Team

Interesting specifics on the processing and logistics behind the deal itself.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/livingsocial-server-flaw-2011-1

Just saw your post come through based on Martin Tobias' post and he is off on a several things, but in short, there is no widescale problem of users purchasing more than 1 gift card voucher.

Here are some specifics:

First, when a user first hits "buy", we do a pre-authorization of their card but hold off on settlement until later in the day after the deal is closed. We generally do this for a variety of reasons, but a primary reason is that if a user happens to earn that day's deal for free through our Me + 3 program, we don't want to have to charge their card back. Instead we wait to see who has earned a free deal and then process the cards.

A by-product of doing the pre-auth first and the settlement later, is that we can do server side validation (i.e. check for gamers) anytime through the day until the settlement occurs and we've reconciled the transaction. What does this mean? It means that today people who think they've "found a loophole" just haven't been told by us yet that they're violating the one purchase per person rule. We intentionally had that happen today because we expected people to game the system and didn't want to get into a game of cat and mouse all day. That 50-75% of the purchases were gamed is laughable.

The "code hack" Martin refers to changes things on the client side, but not our server side. Optically it will look like someone has changed their purchase number, but we have the number already locked on the server side.

 

[Muse]

Yes, that's the crazy thread with almost 6000 posts and >600k views. Good luck sifting through that monster thread.

For some reason I couldn't find the thread... Linky?

Guess it doesn't matter much at this point. After I get my code I may have to either blacklist livingsocial or divert them with my software so it isn't in my face...

 

[nick1985]

I bought one and so did a family member, both of us received this e-mail.

My GF and I each bought one and didn't recieve jack shit

 

[bradley]

For some reason I couldn't find the thread... Linky?

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2586287

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/expired-deals/1067377/


These threads are interesting social experiements, probably worth more than $10 to the person reading them. And things can only get better. I have seen 100x better deals get far less attention.

Guess it doesn't matter much at this point. After I get my code I may have to either blacklist livingsocial or divert them with my software so it isn't in my face...

There's a link to unsubscribe in my e-mail; I plan on opting out if and when my gift-card is redeemed.

 

[alkemyst]

In for 20 of them, if they all go through, and are stackable, I plan on buying either a nice SSD for around $400 or an SSD and a monitor totaling somewhere around $400 or so.

This is the link where you can apply gift cards to your amazon account: Click Here

Yes, I created multiple accounts using the gmail trick. Gmail ignores the dot in an email address so I could use arik5405@gmail.com as one, a.rik5405@gmail.com as a second, ar.ik5405@gmail.com as third, and so on.

You should be banned for promoting exploits.

The intention of the deal is one per customer.

 

[Gibson486]

Why do I feel like I just paid $20 for nothing and am going to have to dispute a charge.

ugh

LOL....same here.....

 

[Cabages]

My GF and I each bought one and didn't recieve jack shit

I haven't received an email either, and I purchased at around 6AM yesterday.
I'll just be patient for now, get furious if needed.

 

[her209]

I got the same e-mail yesterday about receiving an e-mail today to find out how to get the Amazon GC code. Never got an order confirmation for the original order though which I was able to get in for $5.

 

[airdata]

I have only gotten spam from them... no gift card or anything regarding my having given them my credit card info. I feel stupid and cheap for even risking giving my credit card info on the off chance that I'll get a $20 card for $10...

 

[MagickMan]

Hey ********!

Thanks for getting in on this sweet deal from LivingSocial:

$20 Amazon Gift Card*

We'll send you an email tomorrow letting you know how you can get your Amazon Gift Card* code.

Just got that in my email.

 

[jjmIII]

Some of you really need to relax....go outside and get some fresh air. It will be OK.

This is how Living Social has always done their deals. This was not my first time buying on their site. I don't know why, but they take a full day to process.

I'm sure they are very busy trying to sort all that people that tried to buy more than one. I know my Paypal was charged the $10.

Thanks to the poster on the $5 deal. My wife got in on that one as a new member.

 

[Arik5405]

You should be banned for promoting exploits.

The intention of the deal is one per customer.

You should be banned for sharing opinions that nobody cares about.

 

[rivethead]

Some of you really need to relax....go outside and get some fresh air. It will be OK.

This is how Living Social has always done their deals. This was not my first time buying on their site. I don't know why, but they take a full day to process.

I'm sure they are very busy trying to sort all that people that tried to buy more than one. I know my Paypal was charged the $10.

Thanks to the poster on the $5 deal. My wife got in on that one as a new member.

Perhaps. But I still think it's rude to not even provide an order confirmation email response. 24 hours later and I still don't know if my order was placed.

 

[rsolomon]

Some of you really need to relax....go outside and get some fresh air. It will be OK.

Well, amongst their "spam" is another interesting sounding offer local to me. If they are legit and come through with the Amazon offer, I'd bite on this one too - but with *NO* e-mail from them, I'm stuck thinking it's $10 more thrown away after the first $10 from yesterday.

I must say though, that they've still not charged my cc for yesterday, so it's an odd scam if it is one. The virtual account numbers that my AT&T cc offers are awesome for this - livingsocial has a unique number which expires next month, and won't allow charging more than $10 total to it

Richard

 

[nick1985]

18 hours later and no email.

 

[alkemyst]

You should be banned for sharing opinions that nobody cares about.

nobody as in thieving bastards?

 

[novasatori]

I haven't gotten any either, I also don't see a charge on my card

I guess it didn't go through so no big deal.