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.
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!
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.
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
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...
Since Pepper took over this site is awful. It's no longer a community deals site, instead it's a sneaky affiliate marketing site with a worrying agenda. The mods are crazy & incompetent. Lots of undisclosed paid promotions. Be very careful using this site.
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.
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!
I Have been a member for over ten years. The site was laid back with fun members and you could find good deals and have a laugh,
From the past three years ( Pepper took over) the site is rubbish, sometimes even laughable... the moderators are uptight and trigger happy to delete comments for no apparent reason! It reminds me of the defunct Rpoints. I hope they get rid of some moderators as they are spoiling the site.
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
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.
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.
You can't add real online deals so you won't find real deals. They remove it. I think they only accept major retailers. It's not a community run web site as advertised. They have a fake contact us page also as i've sent 5 queries and no replies in over 2 months. Avoid, I agree with the first review. Check online, google you will definitely find better for everything.
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.
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.
HotUKdeals is great for finding some of the best deals on electronics
And more! Often doing competitions/giveaway on great products. They're
Reliable with a great community, definitely one to trust!
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.
Guys this website is awesome! The first thing I do every morning when I log onto my computer is to check this site for the latest deals and price glitches.
OK, whilst the deals come thick and fast, many are broken links, whilst others are found only as some local oddity at Tescos Leeds for example. If you really do your research you can usually find better - IF you are single-minded about your product. Also, some of the deals are fairly complex and need a bit of luck to work; using additional quidco or vouchers, or being a member of Am prime for example. A deal should be straight forward, and unfortunately many good ones here are not, or really need you too look into it before plunging. Many retailers have purposefully banged a bxxsxxt deal on this site just to get the traffic,: 10 minutes after your order with these types you get an email saying there's no stock. Surprise!
The app is buggy to say the least: I can have a stonkim BB signal and get it fails to load deals, comments, etc. Try to add an item and it flip-flops from one section "deals", let's say, to " vouchers". Then it simply doesn't load! People jump on your ad before you've even seen it come through to give a personal, biased opinion about a product they've never had, by people who have absolutely nothing else better to do. And if you think people won't spend anything on gumtree or eBay, then check out the tight-wads on this site. Total losers.
They Sold out to big companies, try to post any warning or negative about a big firm like Disney and your post get removed.
HotUKDeals has a rating of 1.6 stars from 25 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. HotUKDeals ranks 656th among Discount Shopping sites.