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Yes. I am sure that Enco has known for a long time that we are sharing discount codes. The solution, if they wanted to stop it, was to tie codes to account numbers like some other businesses do, or reduce the number of codes available. Destroying a user base is not the brightest idea.
That all nice in theory, but since this is what i do for a living (senior back-end web developer), I can tell you most of the time it's not as easy/cheap as everyone thinks it is.
I've worked on several projects that had the executives, and sales/marketing people all giddy. The enthusiasm quickly evaporated when the learn it will require $150k worth of new hardware, and $500k worth of new support staff (the cost that never goes away). if you want to hear a pin drop in a meeting full of executives, tell them we need a new data center first, because the current one is at capacity.
It would not surprise me at all, to learn it cost over a million a year to keep Enco's website up and running.
This is a general web/tech issue though, as very few people seem to truly understand how costs can sky rocket when you want redundancy, scalability, & performance all in one.
if the options are go out of business, or get rid of the little guys, i know what i would choose,Destroying a user base is not the brightest idea.