teneke

I was watching the WAN show, and I've always been against that stupid addon, like how do they make money ?
Do they track and sell my info - no, so how do they make money exactly ... Well they claim they get something from the store you use the addon on. But this too doesn't make any sense, say you're shopping at amazon or something, you get 5% off a 100 mouse. Cool honey will claim that's 5$ straight into your pocket. Then HOney will get some percentage from amazon. Let's say it's a tiny 1% because they have many users. So out of 100$ amazon doesn't get 5, thanks to that honey code, and then they also don't get an extra 1. Why would they be loosing money like this ?
 
Well the tiny thing I noticed with honey is, when you do your own research, for your own coupons, usually the first google result, you end up saving alot more.
Here's my example that happened to me: I was shopping for a new mattress. Casper seamed nice. it was something like 600$. Honey offered to save me 40 or 50. The first google result's first coupon was saving me 100 and I was getting free pillows...
 
Honey get money from the retailers to save you less money than you might actually be able to save on your own.
This theory is further confirmed by the fact that most codes honey tries (that flash for less than a second) have "HONEY" in them, so they mostly try their own codes ...
That whole thing is just very antycompetative for my taste so I've long parted ways with this lying SOB of an addon, just in the off chance they do actually track everything. I'd much rather google my own codes and save my own money.
 
But definitly don't take my word for it, try it for yourself. Many times their codes will be the best, but many more times there will be better codes when the addon will claim there's no buyers remorse...