Sfix have just emailed as below.

Part of me thinks there could be some legitimacy. Bit the other half of
me suspects you have all received the same thing! (Well, those that use
Sfix and so they know your email addies.)

It isn't going to help me (or them!) - I simply do not need anything
sufficiently to spend 50 quid in the next couple of days. Simple
sceptical...

(Anyway, there site is always a problem these days.)


Dear Customer

We believe you may have recently experienced problems with our website
and would like to offer you 10% off your next order over £50 using the
voucher below.

You must be logged into Screwfix.com using the following email address
. But Hurry! This voucher is only valid until
Sunday 23rd June.

If you continue to have any problems or questions please let us know by
emailing

Many thanks
The Screwfix.com team

--
Rod

On 21/06/2013 14:11, polygonum wrote:
Wish I could type...
"But"
"Simply"
"their"

--
Rod

"polygonum" wrote in message
...
Sfix have just emailed as below.

Part of me thinks there could be some legitimacy. Bit the other half of me
suspects you have all received the same thing! (Well, those that use Sfix
and so they know your email addies.)

I haven't had one and I'm on their email list.

Is it definitely from Screwfix? There may be a link in the email which
*says* screwfix.com but if you hover the cursor over the link and check your
status bar, it may be for somewhere completely different, someone fishing
for your login details.

On 21/06/2013 14:45, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

"polygonum" wrote in message
...
Sfix have just emailed as below.

Part of me thinks there could be some legitimacy. Bit the other half
of me suspects you have all received the same thing! (Well, those that
use Sfix and so they know your email addies.)

I haven't had one and I'm on their email list.

Is it definitely from Screwfix? There may be a link in the email which
*says* screwfix.com but if you hover the cursor over the link and check
your status bar, it may be for somewhere completely different, someone
fishing for your login details.

Most of the email is full of links to screwfix.info but they all end up
going to screwfix.com.

And I have been searching a bit the past couple of days or so the
possibility of genuineness isn't beyond the bounds.

--
Rod

On Friday, June 21, 2013 3:03:19 PM UTC+1, polygonum wrote:
On 21/06/2013 14:45, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Sfix have just emailed as below.

I had one of those emails months ago and wasn't aware of any problems with the website at the time. Suspect it's just some sort of "stealth" discount although I don't see how it would benefit them any more than the standard 10% off £50.

On 21/06/2013 15:27, mike wrote:
On Friday, June 21, 2013 3:03:19 PM UTC+1, polygonum wrote:
On 21/06/2013 14:45, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Sfix have just emailed as below.

I had one of those emails months ago and wasn't aware of any problems with the website at the time. Suspect it's just some sort of "stealth" discount although I don't see how it would benefit them any more than the standard 10% off £50.

Why not email screwfix from their official site and ask them.

"mike" wrote in message
...

On Friday, June 21, 2013 3:03:19 PM UTC+1, polygonum wrote:
On 21/06/2013 14:45, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Sfix have just emailed as below.

I had one of those emails months ago and wasn't aware of any problems with
the website at the time. Suspect it's just some sort of "stealth" discount
although I don't see how it would benefit them any more than the standard
10% off £50.

I was in Screwfix (Hillsborough) on Wednesday and they had to use manual
sales forms for everything as the main network was down - they said that it
prevented on-line sales and they couldn't process refunds. So it would seem
plausible that they are sending out discount codes to people. Did you try
to look at their site recently?

Cheers

Mark

On 21/06/2013 17:42, Ferretygubbins wrote:


"mike" wrote in message
...

On Friday, June 21, 2013 3:03:19 PM UTC+1, polygonum wrote:
On 21/06/2013 14:45, Mentalguy2k8 wrote:

Sfix have just emailed as below.

I had one of those emails months ago and wasn't aware of any problems
with the website at the time. Suspect it's just some sort of
"stealth" discount although I don't see how it would benefit them any
more than the standard 10% off £50.

I was in Screwfix (Hillsborough) on Wednesday and they had to use
manual sales forms for everything as the main network was down - they
said that it prevented on-line sales and they couldn't process refunds.
So it would seem plausible that they are sending out discount codes to
people. Did you try to look at their site recently?

Cheers

Mark

Yes - I did. Thanks - that makes perfect sense. Email those they knew
were online when they had problems! Wish it had a nice long use-by
date... :-(

--
Rod

polygonum wrote:

Sfix have just emailed as below.
Part of me thinks there could be some legitimacy.

sometimes if you try to logon to their website at dark o'clock, it's
down for maintenance and they have a holing page offering you £10 off
any order the next day - or something like that, so it sounds similar,
but then phishers send emails designed to sound familiar ...