The silence is deafening - MedExpress

[lovealongbath]

I am really disappointed at the lack of update from MNHQ about the deletion or not of posts with MedExpress referral posts.

Thanks for the update and for liaising with MedExpress, that’s really helpful.

You're all superstars thank you!

I'd already reported my own post, but I have loads of comments on the few big threads we had going. I'll leave it a bit but if we need to go through and report the comments individually, I'll do so.

Thank you again 🤗

What’s happened? Personal data being revealed by the codes? Or something like that?

No I think it’s more that the codes were not being used in the spirit of how they were intended, as referrals for family and friends, and people were taking advantage of the large platform here to gain multiple discounts

Perhaps all code advertising should be banned. Whether that be Octopus energy or the Tretinoin suppliers. One of whom has no hope of ever using the credits accrued as they are so large.

There's something extremely distasteful and ethically iffy about referral codes for prescription medicines. Especially from online pharmacies, which we know are commonly used to circumvent the prescribing criteria for prescription only medications. There have been plenty of posts on MN advising people of how to cheat the system and get their online prescription ok'd by these pharmacies when they do not meet the prescribing criteria. Discount codes for this prescribing route feels like incentivising unsafe and unethical practices.

(This is not a post about weight loss drugs in general, I think they are fantastic when prescribed correctly and monitored)

Ah thanks.

Code spammers getting lairy with MNHQ is a bit much, in that case.

It very much favours those with a brass neck, doesn’t it? And it litters up online spaces.

Interesting to hear from BeckyMN, that some users have shared the same code HUNDREDS of times. That’s incredibly excessive and obsessive.

Not just the frequency but the begging. "Please, please use my code it would make such a huge difference to me."

I took screenshots when they changed the rules a couple of months ago, and have attached the relevant bit. Despite what a few of you are saying, rather unfairly imo, MedExpress expanded the friends and family code sharing to include all forms of social media, including forums. As soon as that happened, everyone started sharing them here, which is about the time the new promo code forum was set up.

We were posting in the forum set up for sharing those codes. Most of us used someone else's code to get started, ourselves. People want to use the codes, we shared them on the off chance they would be used.

And yes, it was a huge difference to some of us. I'm support staff in a school, getting someone to use my referral code was equivalent to half a day's pay for me.

As much as I understand people finding the code sharing a bit annoying, surely the purpose of the separate forum was so that you wouldn't have to read the posts, unless you wanted to find one to use, yourself?

@BeckyAMumsnet

i want to sincerely thank you and your team for deleting all of my posts with my MedExpress code. You have gone above and beyond my expectations.
🙏

Sharing it once maybe, but hundreds of times is excessive and spamming.

I couldn’t find my post to delete it so thank you for deleting the entire thread Mumsnet- thank you

Don’t forget the ‘please please use my code and I pinky-promise I’ll donate half of the credit to charity.’

@BeckyAMumsnet a huge thank you to you and all the team. It must have so much extra work for you all but it's much appreciated.