Exclusive voucher codes

This issue Ken Rigsby can’t find any…

Ilove a good discount. Who doesn’t? That’s why you’ll often find me in the Tesco bakery aisle, late into the evening. I’m there to snag bargain bread products. Sometimes I’ll lurk there waiting for the arrival of the staff member armed with the Magic Yellow Sticker Gun. That’s the Magic Yellow Sticker Gun that with each passing hour fires ever-lower price tags. Turn up minutes before closing and the wielder of the Magic Yellow Sticker Gun becomes seriously trigger-happy. Bang – a whole farmhouse loaf for 20p! Pop – a stack of bagels for 10p! Zap – a box of doughnuts for 5p!

Those are all real last-minute price cuts that I’ve pounced on during my past fortnight’s bakery-aisle loafing. And, while our freezer is filled to capacity, I’m addicted to my supermarket’s desperate discounts. Now that I know where to go, I’m there more often than is healthy. But so what? I’ve got enough cheap baked goods to see me through winter – that’s winter 2018, incidentally – and Tesco has a few extra pennies to put towards the Christmas staff party. Every little helps.

I wish securing the best online discounts was so simple. Oh sure, there are voucher codes – thousands of them! And yep, there are sites that carry huge lists of those codes – hundreds of those! But there’s the rub: I can never be sure which code gives me the cheapest price at that precise moment.

Now, I’m well aware of the likes of Lastminute.com. I was there during the first dotcom boom and bust. I bought the shares and lost a (small) fortune. That site’s fine for the once or twice a year I want to book a holiday or flight.

And yes, I know about Groupon. If I want a cheap cream tea at a country pile 50 miles away, or my nails painted for half price (on a Monday morning, during school holidays only), I know where to go.

“How about Hotukdeals?”, I hear some of you ask. Yep, I’ve seen some truly brilliant deals on it, but there’s no predicting when one that’s good for me will appear. Then, of course, there’s Quidco, the site that gives you cash for every purchase: great if the shop selling the item you want offers a Quidco commission.

But none of those are the discount site I’m looking for. You see, on one voucher site I might find a code that gives me a five per cent discount. However, I know from bitter experience that if I keep looking I might eventually stumble upon a different discount that’ll magic up a much juicier 10 per cent price cut… but for the exact same purchase, at the exact same retailer!

The reason for this is that online retailers sometimes create unique codes for particular voucher sites. This exclusivity is great for the voucher-code site in question, but rubbish for me as an online shopper, because exclusive also means elusive. The knowledge that such one-off codes exist means I have to virtually traipse around a dozen different voucher-code sites, defeating their original purpose.

I want a discount tool that scours every single voucher-code, special-offer and cashback site to find me the very best possible code at that very second. I want all of that, and preferably just before those deals expire, so they save me as much money as those mouthwatering 5p packs of Tesco doughnuts. Basically, I want a web version of the person with the Magic Yellow Sticker Gun.

I want a tool that scours every discount site to find me the best code at that very second