PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B

Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by etxm on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:52PM (#21590384)

Most affiliate networks are pretty shit about tracking. Last click attribution is how it generally works. Some have started keeping track of when you landed vs when you got the affiliate link, but it’s a grey area as far as user intent.

Let’s say I got to checkout and after tax and shipping the product was too expensive. I use Honey or search for a coupon and the price goes down and I complete a sale.

Did the deal site offer value? Arguable.

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Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by dwoozle on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:22PM (#21590886)

That happened to me literally an hour ago. I checked out and when the shipping was added the price felt high. I left the cart open and started browsing Reddit. I was waffling on the purchase. Then I remembered to Google for coupon codes and I found one and put it in and at the new price I checked out.

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Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for... by sjg007 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:06PM (#21591362)

This is probably why honey is legit

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