We Broke Verizon’s Store!

This morning/last night, we released two coupon codes from Verizon, offering free lightning cables, and free shipping. It was a great deal for the 800+ fans of ours who took advantage, but a terrible deal for them.

It turns out that our little leak caused them to shut down their entire coupon system, for all of Verizon Wireless! I can’t keep from laughing at their misfortunate – schadenfreude. Here’s the chat conversation that confirmed it all:

verizon wireless very helpful chat support

Michael Sitver

Michael Sitver is a technology insider who has been blogging about technology since 2011. Along the way, he's interviewed founders of innovative startups, and executives from fortune 500 companies, and he's tried dozens or hundreds of gadgets. Michael has also contributed to works featured in Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the associated press. Michael also occasionally consults, and writes for Seeking Alpha and Yahoo News.

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