So basically in order to enjoy the $47.00 off, you have to buy at least $97 of product before discount has been applied, and only from that Holiday page. You can’t add a smaller cost item from somewhere else on the site to help achieve the $97…
AND YES… you find this confirmation out when you make the attempt to buy something with insufficient funds to reach the $50. Despite the transaction not going through, PayPal shows a pending charge. I’ve also got $10.30 pending charge for my order that did not go through. The Acebeam discount code logic is NOT working properly. PayPal should not have a charge until processed through to completion.
I got an email saying my order is invalid. This system doesn’t make
any sense. You are only allowed one code per order but it automatically goes onto every item you purchase so say for example if I want to buy one E10 at the normal price and one E10 at the discounted price, there is no way of doing that.
This was a very poorly executed discount sale. Why bundle in lights that you can’t purchase alone with the discount? They should’ve just included only above $99 lights and made it oh so simple.
Well, I checked with PayPal and it’s an authorization that’s pending and won’t go through until the order is processed. After a few days it should expire. Still, clumsy mistake by Acebeam.
If I understand this correctly, in order to buy let’s say a T18 we must add other full price item to reach the 49.90 minimum? And the items that were $0.00 can’t be purchased along with anything else in the promo?
This “sale” doesn’t make any sense, next time just price the items at whatever amount you want them to sell for…
Hi,
I used the code (-$47,00) to buy Acebeam UC15 Keychain Flashlight ($59.90)
I got extra $2.00 discount for creating ACEBEAM account and finally I paid $10.90
Paypal Transaction ID: 7Y477643N9191723U
But then I saw a massage that a Minimum Order Amount is USD 49.90.
The My ACEBEAM account page is showing: “No orders”
Will I receive UC15 or a refund?
After sending a second email, saying if they did not respond immediately I would get my money back through PayPal, I finally got a response and my refund within a few hours.
So if anyone hasn’t yet gotten a refund, bug them, and tell them you will get your money back through PayPal if necessary.
I assume this was just a (pretty big) technical mess-up on acebeams part, and they must have had a lot of people affected and were scrambling to get it all refunded.
I hope they worked to resolve it so it doesn’t happen in the future.
But they do make good flashlights, and while this was annoying, acebeam is still reputable in my book.