Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for...
by gnicholas on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:50AM
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What percent of the time does “using the honey add on” result in selecting a different vendor? That is, if you read a blog post and get linked to an Amazon page, does honey not try to capture a commission there? What if you open the add on to compare prices but still end up purchasing from Amazon?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don’t use honey so don’t know the mechanics of how it works.
Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for...
by geitir on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:05AM
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Do you work for them? It sounds like you work for them. Based on your description, the crux of it is they exactly do insert themselves between a blog / affiliate link and their incentivization towards a specific seller exactly does replace whatever commission the blog would have seen
Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for...
by gamblor956 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:02PM
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I don't work for them, nor do I know any of their employees.
However, I have used their add-on and it does not work the way you described.
Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for...
by deelowe on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:57AM
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Agreed. The parent is coming across as obtuse to the point where I wonder if it's intentional.
Re:PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for...
by gamblor956 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:06PM
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It sounds a lot like the two of you work for one of Honey's competitors. You both are coming across as obtuse to the point where I wonder if it's intentional.
Oh wait, you say you're just a guy on the internet and you don't work for anyone in the industry? Yeah, pal, same here. The difference is that I base my comments on having used Honey as a customer, not on some random comment based on a random comment by someone who hasn't actually used the product we're all talking about it.
It's fine if you guys want talk out of your rears but at least be honest about what you're doing.
This is no different then a user visiting a different website about the same product and clicking through the affiliate link on that new blogger's page before making the purchase.