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I thought honey was a pure scam, it's not?


They are EBates, without the cash back. They just auto-plug coupons into coupon code forms and take the referral money.


Technically without the cashback. In practice you still connect honey gold which converts into vouchers, so it's really like 1-2% cashback.


Interesting, didn't know about that aspect of Honey!

tbh, my experience with EBates (and promo codes in general) is that retailers hardly run promo codes anymore. It seems most codes now are individualized, probably as a reaction to the adoption of tools like these.


I was in the same boat. The few ads that got past my adblocker indicated the site was borderline porn-scammy. I stayed as far as I could away.

They feel similar as "Wish". Just as terrible. Don't trust them.


They take referral links when you go to Amazon and in exchange they just try multiple coupon codes.




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