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Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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What about who is already a customer?

May or may not work this time, but I've had success in the past opening a support ticket and asking for the promotion. I opened a ticket, but haven't gotten a response yet, so can't verify whether it'll work or not right now.

I can confirm the $25 match is the offer for existing customers, got the same message shown by xuki

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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Worked for me as a new customer. 1. Create Account 2. Click Billing 3. Bottom of the page Code : BLACK50 4. Paypal 5$ ( http://i.imgur.com/gHAaEZW.png ) 5. Create Droplet - 5$/month 6. 11 months of VPS for 5$ http://i.imgur.com/0Zbad7u.png

Did not work for me. My Billing history only has PayPal in it. I created a support ticket. I'm sure they're busy today with all the new sign-ups, I'm curious how long it will take.

^ Resolved. Credit was manually added by support staff.

I look forward to trying out Digital Ocean.

Re: Digital Ocean giving $50 credits on Black Friday to new customers

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post #11
post #4

What about who is already a customer?

I got this from support Hello Thanks for writing in to claim this promo code! For existing users we've decided to extend the offer in such a way; a) we charge your credit card $25, if the charge is successful, we match that with a $25 credit, for a total of $50. b) you make a deposit of $25 on your PayPal payments page If you chose option (a) please respond to this ticket with: "I authorize you to charge my card on f…

I wonder if a new customer who gets the discount could then go and create a ticket and pay $25 to get a second discount. Hmm. :)
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