Yazoo – Free Music Download

Yazoo chocolate milk is offering free music downloads on its 4-packs. The instructions say ‘Choose from 10 million songs from yazoo.co.uk‘. But what a strange screen is presented when I go there! It seriously is the height of amateurishness. This is the screen that IIS7 – Microsoft’s web server software – shows when a domain hasn’t been set up yet. Pretty unbelievable. Not only that the System Administrator would do it, but that they’d print the URL on a pack and not even test it… this is a 5 minute job to fix. The URL they expect the consumer to go to is www.yazoo.co.uk. [21 Oct 2010 update: this is now fixed – yazoo.co.uk goes to the correct place]

I click the ‘click here’ link to see the free music download offer and I’m taken to www.tlcrewards.com/Yazoo/. I have to fill in a  form with my name, postcode, date of birth and email address. I then have to enter the code from the multi-pack. I don’t think it’s particularly clear where this, but for the record, it’s the top line in the ‘Best Before’ area. Unfortunately no amount of trying will make the form submit my code. I’m in Chrome, so I swap over to IE. Still no luck. So a complete waste of time. I’d like to contact Yazoo to ask them what the problem is, but they only offer telephone support in office hours or a postal address… I can’t call them as it’s late on Saturday, and the offer really isn’t worth the hassle of writing a letter.