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They e-mailed me earlier today, with the message "New Relic wants to buy you a free weekend of Code School to celebrate!" however, after typing in my e-mail on the promo page, I was told I was not eligible! Have now added Codeschool to my e-mail block list.

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You could have just unsubsidised. This will just do unnecessary harm to their email delivery rates.

Maybe that was the plan?

Emailing people offers they can't take advantage of is not good practice.

Crappy business decisions deserve crappy responses. Don't advertise to your existing customers and then tell them they're ineligible for the product you spammed them with.

Codeschool has made crappy decisions in the past. I paid for a course and shortly after they made it free (but the free version had ads). They also discontinued said course so I can't even watch it anymore. Yeah ... they lost me as a customer.

That sounds like a bug. If you want to help us resolve this for you, reach out to support@codeschool.com with your account details and I can look at what happened. Otherwise, sorry to lose you on such a sour note.

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