I have find something strange. The YouTube guy "TechTitanTom" says he have an exclusive partner offer for Hostinger : code TITAN50 for 50% off. But I have see the same code on RetailMeNot since 2 days. No exclusive. Everyone can use. I have test, it works. Is it normal or it is a fraud ?
Lol
Tested it at 3am. Worked. Didn't even need to clear cookies. Anyway, idk why I do this but I wrote a 6-line bash script to test against all their landing pages. Same code, same discount, no referrer check.
#!/bin/bash
for page in personal business reseller; do
curl -s "https://hostinger.com/$page" | grep -o 'TITAN50' | head -1
done
# output: TITAN50 TITAN50 TITAN50"exclusive"
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Reproduced. For that money you get:
Either their "partner" deal is public, or their marketing team doesn't know what "exclusive" means. Either way, not a good look for Hostinger: https://www.hostinger.com
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I am not surprised. The « influencer marketing » is often like this. I have see the same with the Vultr, they say "exclusive" but the code is on how to say... the public forum? Yes. Yes. It is not exclusive if everyone can have it. The Hostinger should be honest about this.
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I am try also lah. Work for me too xixixi. I am not watch the TechTitanTom but I am get his "exclusive" deal. Very punny. Maybe I am become influencer too, I am share code TITAN50 to my cat.
Hostinger's "exclusive" VPS is a joke when you can self-host it on a used OptiPlex with docker compose and a reverse proxy. For that money you get eternal ownership, no influencer codes needed, and you can run nginx-proxy-manager plus your own "exclusive" services that are actually exclusive because they're in your basement.
But seriously: this is false advertising. The code being public means the "partner" relationship is either fabricated or the partner leaked it, which still makes the "exclusive" claim fraudulent.
Homepage banner too? That's just sloppy, not even trying
Or option C: they know exactly what it means and rely on nobody checking. The code has been live since at least July 14 per Wayback. I pulled their homepage from archive.org, TITAN50 is right there in the HTML. So much for "exclusive partner drop."
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It is not fraud in the legal sense, I think. But it is the "démarche commerciale trompeuse" in France. I have see the DGCCRF do the sanctions for less. The Hostinger has office in Paris, they should be careful with this.
Misleading commercial practice is fraud-adjacent enough for me. The FTC in the US has gone after "exclusive" claims before. Remember the Fyre Festival? Different scale, same word.
My bigger issue: this devalues actual partner programs. I know people who negotiate real exclusive codes with smaller hosts, and now every YouTuber looks like a liar because Hostinger couldn't be bothered to generate a unique code.