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Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:46:17 +0000

[...] December I reported a Google Maps Coupon Bug where if you entered an expiration date the coupon would never show up. It appears that the bug [...]

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:39:14 +0000

Robert-

Did you put an end date on your coupon? If so that appears to still be a bug….if you just entered the coupon without an end date or entered the end date as coupon text you should be ok…

Mike

By: Robert Carter

Robert Carter — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:37:03 +0000

I tried posting a coupon 2 days ago and it still hasn’t worked. I think this is still an issue.

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:59:35 +0000

It took 2 days.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:53:26 +0000

Dave-

Did it take 48 hours? More? to show up?

Mike

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:18:35 +0000

The coupon is showing today. Hm…maybe this does work. Now I’ll see if anyone at all references it. If so I’ll try one with a $ incentive and hand change the date from never expires to an expiration date.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:24:41 +0000

Yes you did…I just didn’t pay good attention to what you said….that will teach me.

Keep me posted on how long it takes for your coupon to show up, if ever. Hopefully it will make it prior to expiration

Mike

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:15:08 +0000

Well Mike:

The coupon is not visable. The local business center account says active. The coupon was added without a date on it. C’est la vie.

Guess what? I reported in to you about this before Google Groups.

And you are right. Assuming it was working and the coupon went up, and if I could have edited it manually to add an expiration date that would be great.

Unfortunately, not even step one is working on Google’s side.

Based on what you reported above it looks like the NY Times has figured this out.

Dave

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:02:57 +0000

Dave

Let me know how it works…yes it is too bad…there hasn’t been that much complaining about it but then again they haven’t removed any of the spam identified last week either…I think manually inserting the date should be a no brainer….and as long as a date is on the coupon, the deletion issue while bothersome would not be a deal breaker,no?

Mike

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:52:39 +0000

Great:

I just entered a coupon without an expiration date to see if this works. Last time I tried an incentive coupon with real savings and an expiration date. Of course it never went up over about a five week period. Fortunately the coupon wasn’t critical.

Suppose I entered a coupon with savings and couldn’t get the manual part of this to insert an expiration date? Suppose I couldn’t delete the coupon? One problem makes me suspiceous of others.

The traditional effectiveness of coupons is to use them to incentivise sales with discounts for a definitive time period.

Its too bad Google hasn’t been willing to tackle this bug on a timely manner.

Dave