What? I totally use Honey. I mean, I haven’t been using it long — but I did fall for it and install it! It has come out that Honey is basically just a giant scam. Here’s where I’m getting my info. I first saw it here:
But he’s getting all his info from this guy that did the actual investigation. So I recommend you watch THIS video:
Basically, Honey only exists to steal affiliate links. And as a bonus, if shops partner with it — they can have Honey only display low coupon codes — even if you can google and get way better ones. It’s fucking everyone!
Oh damn, Paypal (who owns Honey), that’s DIRTY.
So basically if someone sells you on a product and you go buy it, they should get a little kickback for the commission. They were your sales-person so they get a commission. BUT, Honey is canceling them out and taking the full credit. Meaning Honey gets all of the commission and the original person who sold it to you gets nothing. But they’re also fucking YOU.
YOU downloaded Honey so you can stop googling for coupon codes. I did too! So now you’re not googling for sales codes anymore. Well, that’s a damn shame, because you’d be saving a lot of money if you were still doing that. If the store has partnered with Honey, they can have Honey control what you see. If you had googled, you might have found a good or better code (even if Honey shows nothing) — but the store doesn’t want you to see that coupon code so Honey doesn’t show it to you.
Even if the Honey window just pops up and says it has nothing, if you click it — THEY GET YOUR COMMISSION. Even if you don’t care about anyone getting a commission, do you wanna give it to PayPal? A percentage of almost every single purchase you make online? Just toss PayPal some of your money for free.
God forbid you were trying to support a business too — cause you could have given them your business, but now Honey is taking a commission on that sale.
HA. That’s so fucking shady.
Sooo… You’re gonna want to uninstall Honey and go back to looking for your own coupon codes. Go to settings > Extensions > My Extensions > UNINSTALL THAT SHIT.
That’s pretty damn epic. It only exists to steal money.
You know in Office Space where they just skimmed percentages of a penny off each transaction? Honey’s getting a LOT MORE than that! WHAT?
Low key kinda props for being that evil. That’s balls.
Let me get my popcorn and watch the epic fall of this company. I can’t believe all of the people who have been promoting this scam that’s been fucking them over the whole time. It’s using the people it’s fucking over to sell it! EPIC! Did Satan design this?
“Well, my days of not takin’ ya seriously are certainly comin’ to a middle.” — Bonus for anyone who gets the ref. Seriously, Fuck Amazon. I’m tired of their Chinese knock off over priced scammy bullshit.
Review: BigMouth Floats are the BEST – Hands Down
BigMouth floats are my favorite. I love them. They send me spam emails. I clicked a spam email about a Memorial Day sale. I mean, I did lose an eggplant last year and the replacement sucked and didn’t hold air well. So I needed at LEAST one new eggplant cause those are my besties favorites.
And the watermelon ring (MY personal favorite), is a few summers old.
This is our 9th summer and I’m only on my second Watermelon — the first being replaced the summer I tried the float holder outside and it faded to yellow. And the flamingo ring’s head doesn’t hold air and the other ring is the Butterfly wings which is so Instagram worthy (LOVE the picture of mom with it!) but not practical. So, like, I need a new mesh float and ring or two.
Holy shit, BigMouth has mesh floats! They have a Pineapple, a Strawberry, and an Ice cream cone! (Edit: Looks like they used to have a Wiener Dog and a Popsicle too.)
Six feet of lounging! SCORE! I’m so tired of buying the eggplants because they’re not a brand, so you get what you get – different nozzles, different quality vinyl. Hell, even the mesh sewn on different sides. So fuck the eggplants, we’re switching. Ice cream is off theme, so I’ll take the two fruit please.
Now, I needed to grab my watermelon. Four feet of swim ring greatness. The float that led to my love of BigMouth. One, it’s huge — not just for adults, but fat adults too. Two, EXCELLENT quality shit. Their floats are a “reinforced PVC” — whatever that means. So they kinda have a matte finish and they’re a nice thick material. So let me just get my watermelon. They have a fuckton of cute swim rings, BTW — most in normal sizes and kids sizes. This year they have a brand collab with squishmallows. Adorable shit. After a few years, I’m over the adorable picture-worthy ones that have heads or trees or mushrooms sticking off them. And the jellyfish was instagram worthy but so so so non-functional. So, just a four-foot ring please…
Ooooo. This year there are tons of big rings! There’s a black and white checkerboard, the watermelon, a rainbow, a red and white lifesaver that says “for vibin’ use only,” a pink lemon(ade), a lime/lemon, and a BOMB! Fuck me, the fuse on the bomb is a cup holder. Oh my god. I know that floating cup holders are in NO WAY functional, but fuck that is adorable. I’ll take a rainbow and a bomb! (Yeah, it says “cannonball,” but cannonballs don’t have a fuse ON the cannonball. I get you though, can’t call it a bomb.)
So I put everything in my cart on the bigmouth site. Now, they have shipping fees. So lets see if Amazon can do better. I make sure I’m purchasing the floats that say “Official BigMouth Store.” The “Shipping From” section says “Amazon.” So we should be good. Free shipping means Amazon is like $5 cheaper. OK, lets do amazon.
FAIL.
So three arrive as expected (in two different shipments):
And then I had to wait on the third without an exact delivery date. Not a good sign. And here we have…
Amazon will happily send you to a third party seller to scam you without telling you about it.
One of these things is not like the others. The H2OGo Fun Lounger! Seriously, Amazon? What the actual fuck? So OK, lets start the return process, I’ll drop it off at UPS and order from the real site — it’s cool. Only, it’s not cool. Since I ordered this from a third party seller, I am not eligible for a refund from Amazon without trying to resolve it with the seller first. WHAT? So I click on message seller and it’s “JellyRoo2.”
WHAT THE FUCK, AMAZON? I made sure I was ordering from the BigMouth store and shipping from Amazon — but you hooked me up with some bullshit third party seller? Why? How? Why didn’t I know?
So I go through the third party seller return process and now I have to package it, print my label, and mail it. Then, when they receive it and verify it is the correct item (hint: IT’S NOT) — I can have my refund.
Let’s call these motherfuckers because typing this has me riled up again.
I just got off the phone with Amazon. I wanted to know how my order went to a third party seller. She told me that I purchased a similar item from a third party seller. I said no I did not. When I click on the item in my order, it takes me to the CORRECT item and look — it says I’ve already ordered it! So this product is exactly what I ordered! It says sold by BigMouth and delivered by Amazon. NOTHING ABOUT JELLYROO2.
So we back and forth. I’ll back and forth all day. And after a while, she explains that sometimes if there is a low stock (in this case 4 units), you will be connected to a third party seller for that item.
So let me get this straight.
I DID, in fact, order this from the legitimate store. When I clicked it and when I checked out, it was the legitimate store. But Amazon decided to fulfill it through a third party. Without me knowing.
…
Let me say that again in like BIG FONT:
I DID, in fact, order this from the legitimate store. When I clicked it and when I checked out, it was the legitimate store. But Amazon decided to fulfill it through a third party.
So, here you have proof of me ordering FROM THE CORRECT STORE. In the first image, you’ll see it says “purchased twice” — that’s because I’ve purchased it again — from Amazon BECAUSE NOW IT’S SOLD OUT ON THE REAL WEBSITE.
See that? And when I move over and click the strawberry, you’ll see I purchased it:
So, yes, I purchased it correctly. From BigMouth’s Amazon front. Two items on THE SAME PRODUCT PAGE from the correct store. One fulfilled correctly and one diverted to a third party seller without my permission for fulfillment.
Ok. I just. I’m stuck on that. I’m stuck. Like. What the fucking fuck? And Amazon won’t refund my money until I go through JellyRoo’s return process. All they can do is guarantee that they will not connect me to a third party seller in the future. I don’t know how they’re gonna DO THAT. Is there a software flag in there about who they scam and who they don’t? Did my account get the “open to scams” box unchecked?
All she could say was that I had to go through the third party seller, they’re sorry, it won’t happen again. I asked if Amazon would return my money if the seller doesn’t. She said yes.
So…
FUCK AMAZON. FUCK THESE CHINESE SELLERS ON AMAZON. FUCK JEFF BEZOS IN THE ASS (unless he likes it like that, in which case make him EAT SHIT. Unless he likes that too, in which case send me an email and we’ll figure something out for that MOTHER FUCKING BASTARD).
Amazon has become completely overrun by chinese bullshit knock offs. And they don’t even care. And now, no matter how careful we are to order FROM THE MANUFACTURER, we might get the knock off anyway. AWESOME.
Putting this out there for all the fellow gardeners. seednerds.com is a scam. They present as a legit company based in California. They fooled me. I made purchase and was notified that I had made an international transaction on my credit card. This is the only indication I had that they were not CONUS.
I called the number to cancel my order. Fake number. I googled the address. Real address — I did street view — it’s a shipping warehouse.
Yeah, that is not an image of a “50-acre farm […which also…] partner[s] with local beekeepers to set up honeybee hives and with free-range chicken farmers to provide help with pest control and composting.”
I sent three emails to cancel the order. They just stonewall and ask for more information. After a few weeks, I get a shipping notice. So I wait for my seeds so I can return them. After all, they have a return policy:
I just need to email them and they’ll send me a shipping label. False. One, they informed me they moved their warehouse to china so I will have to pay to return them. OK, bitches, give me the address. Now I’ve sent six emails with continuous stalls and asking for more information and pictures. Pictures like this of seed packs with NO LABELS EVEN:
When I googled them back in early march, I didn’t find a lot of negative information. Now there is tons:
Please call us from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday, Pacific Standard Time
IS A SCAM. FRAUD. FAKE. CHINESE ASSHOLES.
***********Update on my Lemongrass************
So out of the THREE packs of seeds I’ve ordered from people — ONE is doing well. The plants came up quickly but do not seem to be growing much — unlike the first set of fake lemon grass that shot up like… well, regular old grass. The third contender hasn’t sprouted a single plant. And obviously, I can’t even plant this chinese shit.
I fear I will not have nearly as many plants as I had hoped.
I got a good one for you today, folks. I got SCAMMED. I got scammed hard and hilariously. Meet Rhaegal:
I ordered Rhaegal from the scam website freshyness.com (*Clicky* but NOTE IT’S A SCAM SITE). He was to be K’s house warming present. A regal dragon to stand in front of her new house and be decorated for various holidays. An epic creature of grace and fun.
Instead I received Rhaegal: the Inflatable Dragon of Majesty and Scams.
I saw that Rhaegal was being delivered today on USPS’s delivery dashboard. I was so excited that I showed him off to people at work. I was going to hide him in the storage closet and have K fetch a pool float from the closet when she comes over Sunday. I was so excited! Then I got home and had this awesome pool float in my mailbox. I thought someone sent me a fucking sweet pool float as an anonymous surprise! It’s not unheard of, I send my friends little gifts and sometimes they send me little gifts. And I mean, look at it — that has me written all over it. But when I contacted everyone who might have sent it, they all denied it. That’s when it slowly began to dawn on me… this is Rheagal…
Jokes on those bitches because I love it! I would totally have bought this for the pool at a reasonable price.
Thank god for credit cards. I already contested the purchase and will have my money back in 15 days or less. FREE POOL DRAGON, bitches!
To be clear though, the website freshyness.com is a complete scam. It’s a chinese company that sells expensive awesome shit and sends you cheap, but still kinda awesome shit. Don’t buy anything from them. And always use a condom. I mean Visa card.
