Hot UK Deals - www.hotukdeals.com

You can still find deals, good deals on this site BUT you HAVE to do your homework. You absolutely must not assume that the "offer" is the best deal around.

EXAMPLE

A MY WAY 2 TASSIMO coffee machine.

The original (non-deal) on HUKD was via Amazon, and was over £15 MORE than I managed to find, by simply searching on Google within 2 minutes, and a mere 4 days later? took delivery of this very nice machine.....with the BONUS of a 5 pack drinks bundle, courtesy Buzz Retail CS :-)

SO...I POSTED the BETTER deal on HUKD, BUT IT WAS BLOCKED, because? HUKD "didn't trust the retailer"...or (now this is just an idea) it was against the best £ interests of HUKD?

The machine alone was on offer (now OOS) @ Buzz Retail.com for £49, but moments AFTER my (£49, so not the Amazon non deal price of £65) purchase, I noticed the option of the machine (also on the Buzz site, but in black) with the bundle @ £54.99 (so STILL some £10ish cheaper than the Amazon/HUKD machine only offering) and phoned B R to change my order (5 packs of drinks for £5ish, wouldn't you) but I was told I was too late, as the order was being processed :-( but as it was Xmas, she'd chuck in the drinks bundle FOR FREE.

BOTTOM LINE

You SIMPLY CAN NOT TRUST HUKD, OR its Mods, but you can and will still find deals, you just gotta double check people, do yer homework.

Moderators delete too much content.

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 retailer.

A shell of its former self.

Site owners are bullies, the majority of posters are bullies. It's mainly life from the bottom of the pond on there causing daily disruption and hate towards anyone they want. There are a handful of genuine nice posters, but the whole site is broken and is a cesspool of intolerance run by greed and geared toward moderators pay packet links and their ss attitude and the biggest disgrace of all is the contact us which is a trolling tool the site administrators use when they won't discuss why they are in the wrong for punishing you and is part of their bullying regime to use ignorance to torture you as they never respond to genuine issues and to apologise for their mistakes.

Absolutely Nothing... Yet another affiliate website built by money hungry geeks with no understanding of win-win, nor focus on providing any value whatsoever to the user. Customer Support? forget it... The site does one thing, accumulate accounts which are worth X pounds each or collectively millions, with the ultimate goal of one day selling the company.

As an account holder you take time out of your day to find a deal, post it on the site and get zero reward apart from hot or cold votes and a "badge". And the company makes big commissions for each sale made as a result of someone clicking from Hot Deals to the deal website and buying.

If you create an account and need help, forget it. If you want every deal, every comment, every vote or action you take monitoring or moderating not only by staff but by die-hard users and in the most condescending and aggressive way, Hot Deals is the place for you. Want your account removing, username changing or posts deleting? Absolutely no chance, as your account = lead = value to the company. They will not budge on this

Modern Day Tech/Websites AKA a lovely welcoming benefit orientated facade with lucid and vivid design, driven by neurotic, sociopathic, money hungry geeks sat at a PC with sweaty armpits.

Your call...

Looks like a great idea, but you get banned for no reason, with no contact as to why.

If you post a deal it gets removed, no contact for a reason why.

If you contact you get no response.

Not sure what is going on but it has the potential to be fantastic, but its really let down by the lack of communication.

after my kindle key board broke (accidently Sat on it) had it for almost 3years Amazon said it was discontinued, was devastated, then was just browsing HUKD site and actually seen this advertised for half the price I paid originally couldn't believe it, being a pensioner and crippled with arthritis so not a student, but I placed my details in and I got it, OMG I love it, arrived very quickly and informed of each step even getting an email from Royal Mail to say the day it was going to be delivered, Cant beat that for service, thank you very much 1 very Happy Customer

A site that had great potential until greed, power and control took over. If the politics behind a company don't bother you, and you just look in for a bargain, I'm sure it will be of use. Just realise that not all bargains are what they seem. Although the site does have many users posting great deal. Many deals are just made up for that site and the retailer pays for the privilege. Fair enough you may say but it's all done in such a cloak and dagger way. They aren't even a UK company, much as they would like us to believe they are.

I've set up an fb group for anyone with issues who would like to discuss them in a more appropriate place.

Idea Great but Mods are useless.Ban and Suspend really common cause useless Mods.They have "Contact us" i don't know is working.If they respond you than you are lucky.Your post suddenly can get lost for no reason.Don't waste your time to post any deals.I am sure they have cashback agreement to make it profit.

Popularity Going DOWN and DOWN!

This site could be a treasure trove of bargains and shared information for consumers but it fails at most hurdles. Add a genuine deal and you'll be flamed or the deal will be removed as spam and then mysteriously reappear posted by another user and it'll go hot. Voting appears to be manipulated so certain deals take precedence and certain users (mods?) get the credit. It makes you wonder if they're getting some sort of affiliate payment or kickback. As it stands, it's not a relaible source of information for anyone looking for deals. If you want to get shouted at for trying to share deals you've spotted, be my guest.

Basic useful features like being able to save a dealare either missing or so hard to find they're pointless.

great idea for a site but

its run by a team of total incompetent fools, from pea poor moderating, non existent security, users( like elton chong and adnan) who are allowed to abuse other members in the misc section, and dodgy goings on with the mods using secondary usernames to make certain companies deals hot, even though they are kak deals but big kick backs for the site.

It used to be a good site now its full of deals for 10p baked beans and kak like that.

avoid like the plague, or at worst do not use any personal details as they will either lose them or the site will get hacked and people will steal your details.