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Signing up for stuff. Pretty much every online retailer will pay you via discount for your email address.

I set up a specific junk email address for this purpose and give to every retailer I shop with for their initial x% discount, and I receive coupon codes going forward.

From what I can tell, this is the best way to get discounts. Retailers are generous with people they know a lot about. The flip side is that you're going to be a target for their tricks. If you click on a link or add something to your cart, they are going to send you reminders and even more discounts to get you to buy that item.

Personally, I've been happy with this setup. I only see the promo spam when I want to. And my email becomes a personalized coupon code search engine that contains much better deals than you could get by using retailmenot or similar sites.

You basically also end up needing a burner phone number for these too nowadays. Feels like every one of these I’ve tried in recent months starts with “sign up for 10% off” with an email input, followed by “one more step, give us your phone number!”

I know it’s better to do this sort of thing yourself (or just set up a domain forwarder) but honestly, iCloud’s Hide My Email feature is so nice for this. Of course Apple can still link your spoof addresses to your parent iCloud account, but less-reputable marketing data companies don’t have visibility into that.

I toss "10OFF" into almost every promo box when I buy something. Works at least 25% of the time. When it does I try "20OFF" and that works as well like 5% of the time.

Another tip that works especially well on Shopify sites is to add the item to your cart and then abandon the page. You'll usually get an email or text (depending on your Shopify settings) for some discount code to entice you to finish the purchase.

Reminds me of the 777 code on Dreamhost

I set that up on an older web host and got referral credits for a few years :)

Also the current year can yield results sometimes (ie: 2025).