Reviews for PayPal Honey: Automated Coupons & Cash Back
PayPal Honey: Automated Coupons & Cash Back by Honey
4,125 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Saint, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16316974, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ode, a year agoUnethical business practices masked as consumer benefits.
The extension actively hijacks affiliate links from content creators and small businesses, replacing them with their own - even when they don't provide any actual discounts.
Their partnership model with retailers actually prevents users from finding better deals, as they deliberately show limited discounts while better ones exist elsewhere. Recent investigations have shown they can swap referral cookies without providing any value to the customer.
Save yourself the trouble and just search for discount codes manually.
Uninstalled after learning about their deceptive practices. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18744393, a year agoI have been using it for years not knowing that it is a scam to make money off of consumers, merchants and even "influencers". I never take an influencers side, but honey is just a massive scam by PayPal.
- Rated 1 out of 5by paputsza, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18744381, a year agoit is a scam, replacing other peoples affiliate codes with their own. it also deliberately shows the lowest discounts or doesn't show them at all while there are available
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17368396, a year agoHoney is a scam that poaches affiliate and referral links (or turns your purchase into a "referral"), even when not finding any coupons or "deals", in addition to flat out lying about the existence of working coupon codes. I used Honey long before PayPal bought it and I don't know if it operated on the same mechanics then, but now it is absolutely just a way to funnel money to PayPal via affiliate link poaching.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nori, a year agoBig scam - it was too good to be true.
1. You can almost always find better deals yourself by searching manually online, despite what Honey advertises.
2. It steals money from affiliate links - if you've ever watched a YouTube video that convinced you to buy a product, and used that YouTuber's affiliate link, they get a commission for the sale. However, if you use Honey in that process, they will steal credit for the sale of the product - whether or not Honey finds you a discount! - Rated 1 out of 5by snory, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by AJ, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18368491, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Azure, a year agoThis extension does not do as advertised. Look into how they sell themselves to businesses they want to partner with: they describe themselves as good for businesses because *they stop customers from looking for coupon codes*. Instead, the company can give Honey a low discount to give to customers, and the customers will think that it's the best code available.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18744305, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by RoseCuervo, a year agoIn a video recently uploaded by "MegaLag," he found that not only did Honey poach affiliate commissions right before a purchase was made with their coupon codes, but that they could poach them even without finding a successful code! They then go on to use mainly honey branded coupon codes that aren't always the best code you could find yourself, completely going against their claim that the deal they found was; "the best deal." Video name: "Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam" by MegaLag