Hacker News Reader

Comment by poxrud | Hacker News Reader

They've successful gamed SEO to show up for every "<site> coupon/promo code" search result. Unfortunately it's been years since I've actually found a working code on their site. These days I don't even bother clicking on their links.

View on HN

Last week I saved ~$400 by googling "Lenovo Coupon Code" and using a few it spit out. So yes, sometimes they're bunk, but sometimes you get lucky.

When I bought my Lenovo I made a reddit post asking for such and got exactly that from a Lenovo employee.

One good way to buy from Lenovo is to go through corporateperks.com. Very simple and you get these kinds of discounts all the time. We bought our last couple of machines this way and got a very nice price. (No affiliation with them other than a happy customer.)

One way to buy Lenovo is to google for Lot of X on ebay.com where X is about 3 years old. The off-lease deals and lots of great machines you can find is amazing.

Indeed, I got a top spec x220 for about 450. It was about a year old and still under extended warranty, and practically brand new when I got it. Buying a new Lenovo is worse than buying a new car in terms of depreciation.

The depreciation is mostly because of the vast volumes of company leases ending.

Despite the fairly high reliability of thwir thinkpads, you can easily get good deals on second hand models.

Often those discount codes are advertised quite blatantly on the manufacturers site. A lot of PC Manufacturers tend to have long running discounts on their website that will save you a lot over the original retail.

probably could of got the same result using honey

What is honey?

A browser extension that automatically adds coupons at checkout: https://www.joinhoney.com

It depends on the vertical, but from my experience they're still useful for pizza chains and rental cars. I use Amazon too much to know if they're useful for much else.

For rental cars, I highly recommend AutoSlash.com. No affiliation with them, just used them a bunch of times and have saved $150-$200 on rental.

Wow, nice tip! Thanks!

If you find a better coupon site, figure out why it's not ranking #1, then go build a search engine that rewards whatever that is, and you can kill Google and make billions.

I use their papa johns codes frequently, they always seem to be good for 40% off - however lately I've noticed papa johns trying to cut out the middleman and run their own coupon adwords offers

Papa Johns is partnered with MLB again this year. If a team scores 6 or more, your online order the next day is 50% off. I'm not sure if you have to be local or within a certain mileage of the ballpark. The promo code is usually yankees6, mets6, rays6, etc, as you can see in their NY twitter account below.

https://twitter.com/PapaJohns_NY

They also have an affiliation with the New York Rangers for 50% off the day after the Rangers score 3 goals. It's amusing to me how aggressively they advertise in NYC when all the alternative pizza is cheaper and better.

What alternatives are you talking about? I love NYC mom&pop pizza places, but are there any chains that are better?

I think what I was getting at is that there are no chains that compare to the small pizza businesses in NYC. I prefer Domino's to Papa John's if we're comparing chains though.

Papa johns is so expensive without a coupon code I can't anyone actually buys a pie without one.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com