How Coupons Work at PC Gamer

How Coupons Work at PC GamerWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

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Why does PC Gamer offer coupon codes?

PC Gamer has been at the forefront of PC gaming for over 30 years now, and our years of experience have earned us a reputation as a trusted authority in our field. Through all of our content, from game reviews andhardware testingto features and news,we aim to live up to our reputation as the global authority on PC Gaming.

How does PC Gamer source our coupon codes?

All the coupon codes and related content that you’ll find on PC Gamer have been sourced or produced ourselves. We don’t work with any third parties to curate our coupons—we trust our expertise, and use our knowledge of the industry to source codes we think our audience might want or need.

PC Gamer is part of Future PLC, and that grants us access to a central e-commerce technology called Hawk. Using Hawk, we can easily list coupons, deals, and sale information on our pages. We also work with the wider PC Gamer team to ensure that the retailers we select are ones we trust and would buy from ourselves.

Our experts also scour retailers’ websites and newsletters, and compare our lists with competitor websites, keeping their eyes peeled for any codes we might have missed. We test every code before it’s listed on PC Gamer to ensure that our audience only finds working codes, and each of our retailer pages is checked and updated daily.

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How do we make money?

When you use a coupon code or offer from PC Gamer to make a purchase, we may receive compensation.

Whenever a member of our audience decides to use one of our coupon codes and clicks on it, they’re brought to the brand’s website to start shopping. As they arrive, a cookie is dropped that tells the retailer’s website that they’ve come from PC Gamer. If they then decide to make a purchase, PC Gamer may earn a commission. The value of that commission depends on the relationship we have with that brand and the products our reader buys.

Our parent site, Future PLC hasin-depth terms and conditionsthat detail the different ways that we make money across the group’s publications. You can alsofind out more about Future PLC.

How do we test coupon codes?

Here, we look for a dedicated coupon code field, where we will enter the new code and try to apply it to our order. If the code doesn’t work as intended, we don’t add it to our coupon page. If the code does work, it’s added to the retailer’s dedicated page. Our team then returns to the code the next day and tests it again to make sure it still works as expected.

Testing in this way means we can be confident that we only list working codes on our coupon pages. However, sometimes retailers can discontinue codes without giving us notice or before we’ve retested. To try and catch any expired codes, our team checks daily, removing any that have expired as soon as possible. We also don’t include any user-specific or one-time-use codes on our pages, as these usually stop working once someone has redeemed them.

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