We recently received an email from someone who asked whether or not some shops only accepted NUS cards when giving discounts, and this was our response;
“Hello, thanks for the email. The thing is, the NUS actively discourage HMV, Topshop and other affiliated partners from offering discounts to students without valid NUS cards. They are discriminating against Universities and students who choose not to be part of the NUS (National Union of Students) - They lead people to believe they are not a student unless they are a part of the NUS, which is wrong, and thus many student unions have stood up to this monopolistic practice.
At Stuwd, we believe people who are in full time education are students, whether they are part of the NUS or not, and thus we try to emphasise that if students are refused a discount because they don’t have an NUS card, or an NUS extra card (£10!!?) that they should stand up for themselves and argue their case and try to blag their discount. ”
Now, don’t get us wrong, the NUS is great, and we are glad is exists. But we don’t agree with their practices on trying to prevent non-NUS students from receiving discounts from the major highstreet stores.
Stuwd is a new service, and we are still learning, but as we grow we hope to have more leverage with the major companies and we hope to be able to offer some absolutely amazing never-seen-before student discounts in the near future. So stay tuned, tell your friends, and have some faith 
Ok, so it’s getting to that point in the year. Term is coming to an end, and everyone is beginning to think about what to get their loved ones for Christmas. So over the next few weeks we will be trying to save you as much money as possible from your shopping, and we will mostly concentrate on delivering you information about student discounts available on the high street.
Ok, so as you can see by our archive we have sent out a total of 6 student discounts via text message. We have had some good positive feedback, but we have also had some not so positive feedback. The positive feedback is generally revolving around just thanking us and Stuwd for the information about the discounts. The not so positive feedback is because off the fact that most of the discounts are already well known - and whilst this is the case, we want to make sure that everyone is aware of these discounts, mainly because these are amongst the best student discounts around.
We also received an email recently asking us if we are here to inform about previous discounts, or to campaign for new, better discounts. Our answer to that is 50/50 - there are many discounts around that are not so well known, and we wish to inform everyone about these discounts. However, there are many companies around that don’t offer a student discounts - and we wish to convince them that to change this.
At the moment, Stuwd is not a big enough service for us to achieve this. However as we grow, and as students start to talk about Stuwd, use the discounts, and appreciate us, we will be in a much stronger position to create, negotiate, and inform you guys about new, bigger, better, and amazing student discounts. So please continue to support us, tell your friends, and use any student discounts we inform you about. But most importantly - tell us what you think, give us suggestions, and educate us as to how we can serve you better!
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