How exactly does the HSN shopping cart trick work?

[Insomnia]

I'm curious to know how everyone was able to get the Pre-Approval to pop up for them.  Which specific page was it?  Did you checkout as guest?  How much merchandise was in the cart?  I've tried doing the guest checkout, and I get as far as entering my address and credit card information (on the same page), but nothing comes up.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[daninbath]

I used the trick a couple of weeks ago.  I looked around until I found something that interested me. It was $79 plus shipping.  I went to check out and entered all the requested information, (as a guest if I recall correctly).  I entered my credit card information and when I hit submit another screen popped up and said I was pre-approved and requested a little more information (last 4 of SS I think).   Then something flashed up that said I was approved for $2,000 and they were taking $20 off my first purchase for signing up for a new account.  I just received my card on Saturday.  

Also on Saturday I was on their site and saw the item I had purchased dropped by $20. I called and they made an adjustment to my credit card for that amount.

[juggalo9er]

i get the pre approval, its embedded in step 4 where it asks for billing info and it gets comical from there. i ahve tried accepting it from google chrome, ie, and safari, the acceptance page never loads. even tried restarting browser, making sure pop ups were allowed...nothing works, kinda sad as well because my employer offers 20% through hsn

[bigblue7722]

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@daninbath wrote:

I used the trick a couple of weeks ago.  I looked around until I found something that interested me. It was $79 plus shipping.  I went to check out and entered all the requested information, (as a guest if I recall correctly).  I entered my credit card information and when I hit submit another screen popped up and said I was pre-approved and requested a little more information (last 4 of SS I think).   Then something flashed up that said I was approved for $2,000 and they were taking $20 off my first purchase for signing up for a new account.  I just received my card on Saturday.  

Also on Saturday I was on their site and saw the item I had purchased dropped by $20. I called and they made an adjustment to my credit card for that amount.

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So you have to hit submit that kinda sucks-NVM I think its not submit its continue button so you dont actually have to order the item. The shopping cart trick hates me lol it only works on VS and I have no use for that lol. 

[Anonymous]

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@juggalo9er wrote:

i get the pre approval, its embedded in step 4 where it asks for billing info and it gets comical from there. i ahve tried accepting it from google chrome, ie, and safari, the acceptance page never loads. even tried restarting browser, making sure pop ups were allowed...nothing works, kinda sad as well because my employer offers 20% through hsn

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So I was trying to run the shopping cart trick on HSN, and experienced the same kind of technical glitch that  juggalo9er  mentioned.  Being a web developer, thought I'd look into the page coding/scripting to see what the deal was.  It is a bug hindering the popup, and there is a way around it.  Instructions as follows for Chrome.

1.  Right click on the banner showing the credit approval offer and choose "Inspect element".

2.  This will popup a window pane below the page with the developer console.  This is the code behind the scenes that runs the site.

3.  Scroll down in this window until you see the text "<!-- Build Display of Offer Image -->"

4.  On the line below that text, there is a little grey arrow to the left that when clicked will display the information as shown in the image posted.

The line that says var CreditLimit... well, think you can figure out what that means.

To complete the approval process, open the following link in a new window:  

   https://shop.hsn.com/cmr/credit_application.aspx?PrescreenId='xxxxx'&CCType='xxxxx'

Substitute the "xxxxx" in the link with the info from the corresponding fields (PrescreenId/CCType) from the developer window and VOILA!  It works!