Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

SHOPPERS REVENGE SITE LAUNCHES IN THE UK

www.Myvouchercodes.co.uk launches in the UK and has all the e-tail discount and voucher codes for the UK High St legitimately stored on its website to help online shoppers get the best deal, from companies like John Lewis through to PC World & Boots

In recent months there has been an increase in the number of High Street stores and major retail outlets issuing discount voucher codes via e-mail or on the web to carefully selected recipients, but now one company has put all these codes under one roof for everyone to benefit from.

The most recent online shopping statistics shows that in the UK household spending on the internet has now risen to over £21bn* which means that retailers are having to come up with unique ways of attracting shoppers to their website such as the voucher codes.

Myvouchercodes.co.uk monitors and updates the new vouchers and discount codes every day thanks to a combination of people sending them in to help other consumers and the site owner using technology to keep a watchful eye on the market place.

The site is the brainchild of Mark Pearson who said that he kept noticing the “enter discount/voucher code here” box at the checkout when he shopped online. He decided to use search engines such as Google to see if he could find any discount codes but they were all stored on various obscure sites scattered around the internet and so he hit upon the idea of putting them all on one site.

Mark said,

“Once the site was up and running I was staggered by the response. I told a few friends and family and then they told a few people and it just snowballed from there. I am now at the stage where I am receiving 100's of emails a day from people with new voucher codes and now even some of the smaller retailers are coming to me to ask if they can list on the site”.

The site is entirely legal and has had no complaints from any of the retailers and even has a user forum where people can share codes and discuss the best shopping tactics.

For more info visit www.myvouchercodes.co.uk


EDITORS NOTES

For more info or to set up interviews with Mark Pearson please call Andy Barr, 10 Yetis Public Relations & Design, on 01452 527898 or e-mail andy@10yetis.co.uk.

* Figures from Office of National Statistics, October 2006

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