The ones getting "scammed" out of a few referral sales are the ones advertising shitty products with no care whatsoever. Maybe they should have read the fine prints? Maybe the real lesson here is to do your due diligence before pushing garbage products to your fans?
But it doesn't. What it says it does (or at least used to, maybe they've changed it) is "find the best coupons" for you in that database. Instead, they collude with merchants, and do not necessarily give you the best coupons they're aware of, or even falsely claim they do not have any coupons in their database at all.
> The ones getting "scammed" out of a few referral sales are the ones advertising shitty products with no care whatsoever
You're unable to know this / this is an opinion.
> Maybe they should have read the fine prints?
What fine prints are you referring to?
> Maybe the real lesson here is to do your due diligence before pushing garbage products to your fans?
In the original reporting there was another similar extension featured that did not use to do this, but has since started engaging in this same behavior. For all anyone knows, this could have happened to Honey as well.
Honey does not touch Amazon affiliate links (you can test this) and yet many enraged influencers just use Amazon affiliate links.
Did you ever test for yourself to see that Honey was not finding you the best coupon? You can test this too. There’s a reason the second video is taking so long.
Yes, some codes are requested to be removed by merchants. You’ll find that these typically are of the friends and family variety with steep discounts. In my experience, if the coupon is public, Honey will try to use it.
No. I further did not examine the extension's codebase or followed back its entire revision history. I also do not have access to their infrastructure, particularly their database of coupon codes, and any server side code. I also did not read through the multiple class action lawsuit documents. Not only that, but I also did not perform deeper examination of all the evidence provided. This would include:
- I did not reproduce his tests
- I did not listen to the hours of podcasts mentioned
- I did not independently research his claims
- I did not reach out to merchants for comments
- I did not try to gain insider information
- etc.
Instead, as you noticed, I'm discussing the points published by MegaLag and others, under the assumption that they're true, which the OP didn't claim otherwise - they instead were not even familiar with what was published seemingly. So whether what was published or not is actually true is actually a separate concern from my perspective.