HotUKDealsReviews 25

As many others have pointed out. HUKD does not exist to serve its members but to generate money for those faceless egos.

And if you make the slightest comment that critiques hukd or the sellers they earn commissions from... You will be punished and banned/blocked.by those overzealous and discriminating and immature bully moderators...

They make me sick!

This is just a scam website, affiliate links all over it and won't accept independent shops saying that they don't have good enough feedback when they are a national organisation.

Regular user for several years.

The website is a bit clunky, and filtering has always been buggy for me. There's a distinct lack of user-filtering controls too - you can't block people, for example.
My biggest gripe is the paid endorsements maskerading as deals. The scores are set by the site, not by users, which is very misleading and, because you can't block posters you can't block these stealth adverts. You'll know what they are because they're usually posted by employees, and you'll see the same deals several times a day, and they're really not very good deals at that. And I encourage you not to get involved with commenting, just use the site for skimming deals, not for social media.

That aside, it's a quick way to eyeball some genuinely good deals. I've had some bargains from there. T

I registered on their site so I could search a thread, hoping there would be more options for a registered user to search a thread for information. Next minute I got banned for and I quote "spamming". I never been to their site before or even interacted with their site before this and thought if I contacted them, I told them what happened and hopfully they would get it sorted out. Nope, one of their moderators replied to my help message that I have been justifiably banned for spamming their website. Not only that, their attitude in their message was piss poor and randomly rude despite having never interacted with me and asking them to unban me so I can use their site. They say trust their detection systems and to reply back if you think they made a mistake. As you can believe, they never replied back.

Constantly getting banned from this website for discussing items in detail.

Without any context if you argue with popular posters you are banned. I recently was suspended for telling a poster to stop giving out damaging advice chich would cost people £100's

Hotukdelas removed all of my posts and left the other mininformation posts up, so that others will fall into this mistake and cost them money.

They have truly gone woke to the extent they care about their own image than creating a platform for a discussion on the products / deals.

Most deals are just amazon or eBay discounts anyway. No point signing up to this website whilst it is the digital deal equivalent of the KGB.

They also tried to get my review banned and removed on Trustpilot, and actually succeeded in my 1st one. So now I am on the crusade to make sure people know how unethical this company and their pepper moderation team is.

If you mention a comment that goes against a website or company they make money on they get very upset and ban your account.

Hot UK deals are overly moderated, they don't care about the user and instead allow deals that bring them money in even if they are a poor / scam retailer.

And it just got worse, down to 3.2 on trustpilot, what a joke. They dont care about your opinion, they put your comments in moderation for no reason and flag your reviews rather than do anything about this terrible moderation and guys just make your own facebook page and post your own deals with your own affiliate links like i did, you can do whatever you want and they cant do anything about it.

I recently signed up for this site just to see if they offered any real deals... a few hours later I get an email saying I am banned for Spamming? I have NEVER posted a single thing on this site, yet I have been banned and my account closed for "spamming". Don't waste your time. There are much better deal sites out there. Avoid this one!

They Sold out to big companies, try to post any warning or negative about a big firm like Disney and your post get removed.

The site used to be a fun place with some great contributors, but since Pepper took over they installed the most humourless forum mods I've ever encountered. It really is shockingly bad now.
Most deals are being posted by their own staff and anyone else's gets quietly deleted. There is some quite obvious backdoor paid promotion going on. You'll also start noticing the same deals being posted again and again, despite only a 1p difference from last week. Those same deals automatically get ~120 votes as soon as they are re-posted and they will get picked to got on their email highlights too.
But the mods really are the worst aspect of this site, you'll make an innocent joke which lots of other posters will thumbs up but they'll pounce all over it, this really leaves a sour taste in the mouth as you have no way to appeal their oppressive response. If you dare to drift even slightly off topic your account gets dumped into a permanent moderation queue where they will treat you like a naughty child indefinitely and "review" every single post. This mocking behaviour gets old really fast.
If you get bored of their overbearing behaviour and make a new account to get away from their nasty clique of favoured posters, they'll instantly ban that new account. Apparently if you dare to defy them any further they will IP ban you? Honestly the site is like North Korea now, it really is...
I used to be a frequent deal poster with a great rating, but after the disrespectful way they treated me I just stopped posting any more deals. Now I just use a VPN on a new account and will never bother posting again.
Unfortunately their behaviour has attracted the same authoritarians onto the site, so many of the permanently offended types will start arguments if you dare to not gush over some dull progressive game that they like to post every other week. They will then trawl your post history and report everything you've ever said to try and get a mod to overreact. It's petty and annoying but they have clearly sensed the new moderation style and are playing up to it.
The site is OK if you buy a lot of stuff, although they seem to REALLY like posting hundreds of deals for Lego for some reason? But don't try and engage with their toxic "community" like a normal human being, as they have no idea how to maintain a nice social vibe and eventually you will fall foul of one of their weirdo humourless power freak mods.
All they really care about is you obediently clicking on their promoted deals as often as possible.

Pretty much became a conspiracy site spreading all sorts of sick filth. I think the mods must be anti-vaxxers because they delete comments that challenge their publication of dangerous misinformation and ban the posters. Sort your mods out you twisted granny killers

I am a constant deal poster and have been banned without any notification or warning!
All I did was report another op for posting a permanent free offer that should be in discussions not deals as per there own site rules. Many of my deals have been taken down for ridiculous reasons that are not fair.

Just because I'm not a Pepper member or expert my deals are being constantly removed.
The other deal is still live and my account is suspended and I have not used any bad language either.

The mods have become too trigger happy by picking on the average user and have ruined the user experience for everyone.
They allow foreign deals constantly posted on the site by the Pepper users which should not be allowed as it's Hot Deals UK.

The mods remove deals without giving us a chance to justify it and when you message the nods they do not want to know and don't care about the reasons.
For example I posted a deal on a new line book case from IKEA with a low price and they took it down due to it being a permanent price but they allow many users to do this.

My experience of the site has been ruined by the mods forever.

They are censuring comments. No opinions are allowed on their site.
Huk became an advertising platform for big companies.
No real deals for people.

They banned me for multiple accounts, despite that entering wrong login will just instantly create a new account... and as of writing this multiple accounts is not even on their rules pages (they do ban for moderation evasion according to the rules page but that was not the case...). Mods are apathetic and won't ban actual trolls that you report. They will instantly respond to your appeal then cease responding... lol

Trustpilot abuses power for anyone that pays them so legit reviews get taken down. The appeals process is garbage and results in multi-month long takedowns with unreasonably reasoning. Hotukdeals exploits this to the fullest as do all the horrid companies that review their (((trustpilot))) reviews...

Not a nice place!
Ignorant customer service, ban happy moderators.
If they see you getting a lot of likes they instantly ban your account, without a reason... absolutely no sense of humour, or how to run a friendly enjoyable online atmosphere.

'AVOID!'
There's much better, friendly and more welcoming deal sites out there... Don't get sucked in and line the pockets of these nazi's.

The website is only good for looking for some deals. They only post about major retailers really as i have tried a couple times (only my second deal post, the first for Flamingoland) to post a deal for a particular website. The deal was taken off immediately and i was given a formal warning and told i may be promoting it for my own benefit. The admin and help 'teams' are rubbish and never responded to any of my emails. Don't bother trying to help your fellow man by posting your deal on their site, go elsewhere.