Question Anybody use Honey extension?

[Muse]

I heard about it in a newspaper article some years ago. Took me maybe a year or two to get it going.

I have it in my Chrome browser. It pops up other times but mostly I see it when I hit an item at Amazon. A little flag at the right saying maybe the price has dropped or increased. That flag isn't exactly reliable, if I want to see in more detail I click it and go to price history, which defaults to 30 days but I usually use the dropdown to see the maximum, which is 120 days (AFAIK).

You can put the item in your "Droplist," which defaults to 5% discount giving you email alert. You can change the %, but I usually leave it at 5%. The emails I get are usually for greater than 5% discount. When you hit the link a lot of the time the price has increased already. There's other features of Honey including cash back, which I've gotten a time or two (it accumulates as you use it and make purchases). It will search other sites for a better price.

Anyway, my problem:

I have lots of items in my Droplist. I sometimes go to my Droplist and Remove items because I am not interested anymore. But Honey keeps sending me emails for them as if I never removed them. Do you have that problem?

 

[Ajay]

No. Can't deal with one more thing that keeps popping up notifications and sending me emails.

 

[Muse]

No. Can't deal with one more thing that keeps popping up notifications and sending me emails.

I've gotten some good deals.

Funny one: Around a month ago I saw a price drop for a gallon of Stabil that was about a 50% drop. I pounced (it was a 3rd party on Amazon) and the seller sent me a 10oz bottle and the included invoice stated 1 gallon. I called Amazon, initiated a complaint and the seller apologizes in a message saying they cannot comply, suggesting they don't have gallons. I took it to mean they made a mistake or changed their mind and realized they'd lose money if they sent me the gallon for ~$27. I was refunded and have that to-me nearly useless 10oz bottle (I am working on a quart bottle ... SLOWLY!).

However, most of the Honey alerts I get are for things I no longer have any interest in and no matter how many times, it seems, that I remove them the emails keep coming. I can remove them again, it seems to make no difference. I can turn off email notifications, I haven't tried that, but then I'd miss deals but I may go that route... or who knows? Remove the extension entirely if I figure it's just a PITA overall.