Did you actually ever save money with Honey?

[Stahlmann]

About a year and a half ago i installed the browser extention after seeing it in many sponsor spots. I'm pretty much buying everything apart from groceries online, and so far it happened 1 time that it found a matching coupon and after applying it saved me 2€ or so on amazon. How the hell do they get these ridiculous numbers of savings made by people?

 

Has anyone of you actually ever saved any noteworthy amount of money using honey?

[Kilrah]

Because you're not in the US... pretty much useless outside of there indeed. But most of LTT's viewership is in the US, so...

[Avocado Diaboli]

Yep, Honey is really more geared towards the US market. It's also a massive data harvesting scheme. Remember, if it's free to use, you are the product and you're paying them with all the data you give them for free to track your browsing and spending habits. 

[Chris Pratt]

Just now, Avocado Diaboli said:

Yep, Honey is really more geared towards the US market. It's also a massive data harvesting scheme. Remember, if it's free to use, you are the product and you're paying them with all the data you give them for free to track your browsing and spending habits. 

Actually, Honey makes money via referrals and kickbacks from retailers. There's privacy concerns any time you give out any sort of personal information, but there's no reports of Honey selling anyone's info, and Honey themselves indicate they do not do so, in their privacy policy.

[Quackers101]

always has been.

Raycons be cons.

ads be lying for consumers at times.

 

[Moonzy]

12 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Has anyone of you actually ever saved any noteworthy amount of money using honey?

i've saved a number of dollars while using it

 

0 is the number

[WhitetailAni]

I tried it in the US. Complete pile of garbage. Did nothing for me.

Combined with that it's harvesting data, was a no-brainer uninstall for me after 2 days.

[Spotty]

I'm in Australia and it has never worked. I tried it for a while but after it never found any deals I disabled it a while ago, but enable it every now and then when buying something online to check if it is going to find any deals and it never does.

 

From what I've heard it works in North America. I'm not sure if it's just a difference in the American market where coupons and discount codes are more common or if it's something to do with the way it works where there's more users in America which allows it to find more deals, or what... If you're outside of USA/Canada then I don't think there's much point installing it.

[Stahlmann]

Yeah, i'll probably also uninstall it now. Seems like i'm not the only one seeing that it's pretty much useless. Especially outside of the US.

[thrasher_565]

i got $20can  max then they wanted like 800 gold to cash out im like no....

 

the coupon code has never worked when i used it.

Edited June 7, 2021 by thrasher_565

[Avocado Diaboli]

1 minute ago, Chris Pratt said:

Actually, Honey makes money via referrals and kickbacks from retailers. There's privacy concerns any time you give out any sort of personal information, but there's no reports of Honey selling anyone's info, and Honey themselves indicate they do not do so, in their privacy policy.

They might not do it yet. But privacy policies are subject to change at their behest, not yours. And if and when they decide to change those because they've accrued enough data to sell it in a profitable manner, there's little you can do about it afterwards. Remember, traps always trigger when it's already too late to get out.

[mad dudy]

live the US never once did honey save me any money

[Stahlmann]

5 minutes ago, Quackers101 said:

always has been.

Raycons be cons.

ads be lying for consumers at times.

Of course i didn't get my hopes high as it still was a sponsored ad.

But i didn't expect it to be THAT useless if you know what i mean

[DildorTheDecent]

4 minutes ago, Spotty said:

I'm in Australia

My condolences.

[GorujoCY]

I tried using honey for a bit. Doesn't work on german retailers, Especially amazon.de, I feel honey would be useful only on amazon.com but I do not usually shop here and that's just "sadge".

Anyway I found out it was useless that it doesn't and immediately uninstall it.

Although I'm not against it and people are right, Honey is geared towards US, not anywhere else and that's a shame.

edit: Oh so none else was able to save money even in the US, wow ok, Now i can see Honey going nowhere with this.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Like 20% off my case (there was a 20% off one item on Newegg code at the time)

[Stahlmann]

7 minutes ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

They might not do it yet. But privacy policies are subject to change at their behest, not yours. And if and when they decide to change those because they've accrued enough data to sell it in a profitable manner, there's little you can do about it afterwards. Remember, traps always trigger when it's already too late to get out.

And companies that say they don't sell your data have always shown to be trustworthy in the end...

 

My take is pretty much that the data they are gathering about your buying habits is not worth the occational 2€ save you get every 2 years after posting this topic.

[Stahlmann]

2 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Like 20% off my case (there was a 20% off one item on Newegg code at the time)

Let me guess: This code was not applicable to GPUs? 

[Kilrah]

The whole point is giving coupons from partners... but there are user-run coupon sharing sites that won't be limited to just partners and you're probably more likely to find something there.

That's if that type of promo is a common thing in your regional market, coupons, mail-in rebates etc seem to be everywhere in the US but it's pretty rare where I am.

[Chris Pratt]

14 minutes ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

They might not do it yet. But privacy policies are subject to change at their behest, not yours. And if and when they decide to change those because they've accrued enough data to sell it in a profitable manner, there's little you can do about it afterwards. Remember, traps always trigger when it's already too late to get out.

Yeah, but there's being safe and being paranoid. If you care about your privacy *that* much, you might as well just unplug, and go live in a cabin in the woods. It's not like they even collect that much data on you. Just maybe your name, email, and shopping habits. Google has more info on you just from searching the web, and we'll not even begin to discuss things like Facebook.

[gal-m]

Hey @Stahlmann

38 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Has anyone of you actually ever saved any noteworthy amount of money using honey?

I live in Slovenia, EU and Honey saved me a couple of Euros here and there. It's usually a VERY small though (maybe two or three Euros - max I've saved was prob. 10EUR).. 

[AndreiArgeanu]

11 minutes ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

They might not do it yet. But privacy policies are subject to change at their behest, not yours. And if and when they decide to change those because they've accrued enough data to sell it in a profitable manner, there's little you can do about it afterwards. Remember, traps always trigger when it's already too late to get out.

You'd have to agree to the new privacy policy before any of that happens. And if you live in the EU or the UK there are numerous data protection laws that allow you to request any company to erase all your data, with some exceptions like banks where you can only stop them from processing your data.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

[Helpful Tech Witch]

8 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Let me guess: This code was not applicable to GPUs? 

I think it was a 20% off, max 20$ saved. So yeah, but it would've saved you 20$.

[Avocado Diaboli]

Just now, Chris Pratt said:

Yeah, but there's being safe and being paranoid. If you care about your privacy *that* much, you might as well just unplug, and go live in a cabin in the woods. It's not like they even collect that much data on you. Just maybe your name, email, and shopping habits. Google has more info on you just from searching the web, and we'll not even begin to discuss things like Facebook.

Oh absolutely, you're right. But I find it funny how LTT advertise something like Private Internet Access (PIA) on one side and Honey on the other and how some people who are paranoid about their data whenever it's taken by force are absolutely fine with providing it for free if the process is obfuscated a bit. It's a 1984 vs Brave New World kind of deal. I just wanted to point out the mechanics of how Honey operates, because this aspect rarely gets talked about in this context.

 

1 minute ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

You'd have to agree to the new privacy policy before any of that happens. And if you live in the EU or the UK there are numerous data protection laws that allow you to request any company to erase all your data, with some exceptions like banks where you can only stop them from processing your data.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

 

Which, again, is why Honey is only useful to US residents who don't fall under such protections.

[Chris Pratt]

1 minute ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

But I find it funny how LTT advertise something like Private Internet Access (PIA) on one side and Honey on the other

Well, that's mostly because there's no real point to a consumer VPN if everything you do is above board, but they can't market it for nefarious purposes without running afoul of laws. So, they just say you use a VPN for "privacy". If you're logged in to Google or Facebook, for example, you have no privacy online, VPN or not. They still know it's you.