Honey Controversy

[YitzyS]

Dan

(that is simultaneously a compliment and an insult)

Is Dan considered an 'influencer'?

[Dan]

[AMH]

+1.

Anyone with a brain who thinks for a minute - "How does those businesses make money?" - will quickly conclude - "Obviously by inserting their own affiliate link!"

Which is why we don't use them, but rather we support those who we actually benefit from. And I've been saying it for 5 years already...

When clicking through to the Amazon app does the affiliate link come along?

[yfr bachur]

Dan, you knew all along?

It was pashut to me that this was the reason for that rule.

[NoC]

I honestly don't get the big SCAM here for us consumers. Obviously the influencers who makes affiliate money were duped big time. But for me as a consumer Honey did get me savings. Maybe not as much as I could of, but anything is more than the nothing I would have without them. At the end of the day, they showed me coupons I wouldn't know about. False advertising? Probably. Acted unethical to their advertising on partners? Definitely. Was I scammed? NOPE

[Abebee]

I honestly don't get the big SCAM here for us consumers. Obviously the influencers who makes affiliate money were duped big time. But for me as a consumer Honey did get me savings. Maybe not as much as I could of, but anything is more than the nothing I would have without them. At the end of the day, they showed me coupons I wouldn't know about. False advertising? Probably. Acted unethical to their advertising on partners? Definitely. Was I scammed? NOPE

Scammed might not be the right word. But defiantly shady and misleading. If you feel comfortable clicking the honey extension and only save lets say 10%, a quick google search would have saved you 20%...

[NoC]

Yes I am, because I (along with most others) don't search for coupons before checking out. This is seamless. The only misleading thing is the advertising as best rates where it's possible that other extensions would've found better. But overall it's a net gain for me.
Now obviously now that I know Dan won't get my affiliate cookie unless it's potentially a big saving I won't use

[TzviR]

Yes I am, because I (along with most others) don't search for coupons before checking out. This is seamless. The only misleading thing is the advertising as best rates where it's possible that other extensions would've found better. But overall it's a net gain for me.
Now obviously now that I know Dan won't get my affiliate cookie unless it's potentially a big saving I won't use

How would you know the potential savings without clicking? What I'm assuming would work is going back and clicking through Dan's link once you figured out the code

[etech0]

How would you know the potential savings without clicking? What I'm assuming would work is going back and clicking through Dan's link once you figured out the code

Do most people use Dan's links for stores besides Amazon? I've looked here and there and didn't always find the store I was looking for.

[TzviR]

Do most people use Dan's links for stores besides Amazon? I've looked here and there and didn't always find the store I was looking for.

I don't generally buy things unless they were posted on Dansdeals

(Although I was being sarcastic, there is actually some level of truth to that)

[etech0]

I don't generally buy things unless they were posted on Dansdeals

(Although I was being sarcastic, there is actually some level of truth to that)

And then people ask who's a real influencer!

[Yonah]

I honestly don't get the big SCAM here for us consumers. Obviously the influencers who makes affiliate money were duped big time. But for me as a consumer Honey did get me savings. Maybe not as much as I could of, but anything is more than the nothing I would have without them. At the end of the day, they showed me coupons I wouldn't know about. False advertising? Probably. Acted unethical to their advertising on partners? Definitely. Was I scammed? NOPE

I'd agree that the SCAM portion for the consumer is less than that of the affiliate link owner or the merchant.
 
It also harms merchants. By making it easier to spread coupon codes, merchants find themselves paying out more money in discounts or offering discounts to people outside of the groups that they intended (for example, if Honey sucks in a code for First Responders and they don't verify).

[Jojo202]

I am so confused. Why would any regular person care about this? If anything at least the consumer at least gets their cashback or whatever. Through the affiliate link they got 0%. They are just as shady as every other cashback site that gives you spam codes and then steals the last click. At least honey gives you $0.89 whereas other (coupon and cashback) sites would give ZERO. The only thing that got me angry was something similar touched upon in the video, if you had a diff cashback active, and you you get a pop-up for "cashback available", IME clicking on the "maybe later" would activate their cookie. The only way out was clicking the X. That's scammy.