diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 0608ba76..e697e5c4 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML = ''
   + '      <img src="@@INCLUDEIMAGE:images/current-location.png@@"/ title="Current Location">'
   + '    </div>'
   + '    <div id="portaldetails"></div>'
-  + '    <input id="redeem" placeholder="Redeem code…" type="text"/>'
+// redeeming removed from stock site, so commented out for now. it may return...
+//  + '    <input id="redeem" placeholder="Redeem code…" type="text"/>'
   + '    <div id="toolbox">'
   + '      <a onmouseover="setPermaLink(this)" onclick="setPermaLink(this);return androidCopy(this.href)" title="URL link to this map view">Permalink</a>'
   + '      <a onclick="window.aboutIITC()" style="cursor: help">About IITC</a>'