Honey

Complete scam avoid – It not only hides better codes from you, it even steals affiliate commission from creators lmao why aren't the people behind this company in jail yet

This extension actively SCAMS creators, users, and store owners – 1. Content creators who post affiliate links get a commission of a sale for a product. If you click an affiliate link on YouTube and go to checkout for that item, for example, your browser will apply a cookie to the page crediting that YouTuber. If a user clicks Honey to look for coupons, Honey will REPLACE the affiliate cookie with PayPal's… Read more

affiliate cookie, meaning PayPal is pocketing the commission. This is theft. This happens even if Honey doesn't find a better deal. It happens if you activate Honey Gold. It happens even if you interact with the Honey window AT ALL, even if there are no coupon codes and the store does not have Honey Gold. It happens on ANY affiliate link, even if the creator was not promoting Honey and you just happen to have Honey installed, and you interact with the Honey extension in any way. 2. Honey does not actually get you the best deal. Store owners can control what coupons show up in the extension. If you check for coupons with Honey, it will often not include the best deal like it advertises. If you submit a code to Honey, Honey will pretend to take it, and then it will not add it to its database. A seller can choose to not include the best coupon on Honey. You are better off searching the internet for codes manually. I repeat, IT DOES NOT WORK AS ADVERTISED. 3. If you use Honey Gold, you only get 2.5% of the commission they've stolen. 4. Honey hurts businesses too, especially small ones. Honey will occasionally pretend to give massive discounts on certain stores. When some of these discounts don't work, this makes the occasional angry customer contact the store's customer support, forcing them to uphold the deal even if the store owner never put out that coupon code. For the ones that do work, these codes were private codes that were never meant for the general public. Private employee discount codes are shared as soon as they are entered, if that person entering the codes has Honey installed. Veterans codes, codes for loyalty, all are fair game. Honey will take the code and store it in their database, whether the user gives permission to share the code or not. When a store complains that their private code was leaked and requests a removal, Honey then will ask if they would like greater control over their coupons by partnering up with them. Honey will also selectively refuse to remove the store from their databases, even if they never gave consent to be on those databases in the first place. They are essentially asking businesses for money in exchange for excluding codes that they don't want included. This is extortion. 5. Honey tracks and shares your shopping data despite them promising that they don't. They track how many times you check your orders, if you've opened a dispute with orders, whether you use guides for products, they track your paid subscriptions, if you've added people to your subscriptions, where the product is located, which website, which date you viewed a product, they track if you've viewed support pages, they track shows you watch on paid streaming services, and of course if you bought that subscription through an affiliate link. Those are just a small example, in reality that's just the tip of the iceberg. 6. Honey tracks the information of minors without parental consent, which is against many data collection laws in many countries. They knowingly partner with influencers with younger audiences such as Mr. Beast, Minecraft YouTubers, Roblox YouTubers, and cartoon creators targeting children.

Never benefited – I've had Honey installed for years now, and not once can I say that I've had a valid code applied or that I've saved any money as a result of using Honey.

Make and save money while shopping – I don't normally review these types of things, but this extension is the best. It finds and applies Promo codes at so many stores. You also accrue what is called Honey Gold "Coins" Virtual coins that bank up when you purchase with the extension activated, which you can then choose to redeem gift cards from their site. It also has this awesome… Read more

feature where it tells you via a small widget whether the item you're looking at has recently dropped, risen or stayed the same in price. Offers many Gift Cards, including Amazon. I had a problem getting my redemption email and they took hold of the situation and emailed the codes direct to me, even though the fault lies with my mail program. Even the service is excellent and it's FREE

Self-aggrandizing money making scheme that fails their own hype – When you buy online, you may have the option of earning rewards. Fine until you want to claim a rewards. My first experience, some months ago, I mistakenly selected US eBay and not the Australian eBay, for my $10 reward. I was denied use of the reward, as I live in Australia. I ought to have selected the Australian eBay. No where was this… Read more

obvious. They know I am in Australia and yet their system failed to direct me to the correct path.

I managed to get through to JoinHoney, got my credit back and correctly selected Australia.

Fast forward to now.

I have been waiting for two days now, not literally 48 hours, to get my Australian eBay reward. It has not arrived, via email.

I contacted JoinHoney via FaceBook and they have not replied. I have sent off two emails, and likewise, no reply.

There is an automated reply, and no help.

So this is my review of this 'snake oil' business.

Look at some of the nonsense these clowns write about themselves:

"We hold ourselves and others to a high standard."

Nothing says high standard like NOT giving earned rewards, and automated replies to emails.

Their public email address is: yourfriends AT joinhoney.com

Like I said in the title, Self-aggrandizing money making scheme that fails their own hype.