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Alison_McDonald <Donald_AL@somewhereonline.com> wrote:

> Dear shoppers
> 
> Just noticed a lot of discussion around regarding the website
> [removed]. I work for an insurance company who use [removed]
> direct and we get preferred discounts on anything we buy from their website.
> 
> Anyone who is interested can use the code "HBOS0504EAP", enter it during
> checking out to have �2 deducted from your total. I believe its valid to the
> end of may 04...

I wouldn't consider doing business with the kind of underhand scum who
post messages to newsgroups advertising their own site by posting under
false identies as supposed 3rd parties.  Searching the last years posts
in this group for the URL comes up with a single thread started by
someone (Brains) using the same kind of lame cover story as you, so much
for 'a lot of discussion'! You onyl need to take a quick look at the
headers of those posts to see a very suspicious number of similarities,
the same goes for the posts of praise from AlterEgo & JohnD that have
appeared here and in free.shopping.online.  

Then again I assume it could just be co-incidence that 4 people all use
false addreses, the same DSL provider, the same version of Outlook, same
posting style and have never posted to Usenet for any reason except to
praise some tin-pot CD/DVD retailer who appears to have a site & name
'heavily influenced' by one of the better online DVD/CD retailers.  I
can't speak for anyone else here but I can't see that I'd want to give
money to people who try and get customers using those kind of underhand
techniques.
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