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The very first time I saw an ad for Honey I knew there had to be a catch. Nothing is ever free.
It wasn't immediately obvious how they were going to make money, though. I figured they'd just sell gather and sell user data. I had completely forgotten about affiliate links. But they probably also sell your data for good measure.
The only thing truly free are those little pencils at IKEA.
Those are priced into the products IKEA sells.
I only go there for the free pencils and make my furniture out of the pencils. Checkmate
You can cut down on your pencil quota by also adding free FedEx boxes to your furniture.
Edit: Remembered why I thought of this: http://web.archive.org/web/20060821064958/http://www.fedexfurniture.com/pictures.html
No purchase required, though. You can just take all the pencils and paper rulers you want!
That just means the actual customers are paying for you.
Heh, sucker's more free pencils for me
Do they still exist? In China and Malaysia where I've been living for the last 10 years there are only QR codes at the items that you can scan with the IKEA app.
If you don't want to install the app, all you can do is take photos of the labels, or bring your own pens.
Still exist in UK as of last year, short wooden pencils stacked in a plastic cube, free for as many as you can take before security gets angy
Yeah that's what I'm used to from Germany as well, but seems like they either never implemented it in Asia, or got rid of it a long time ago.
They certainly exist in Ikea here in the Philippines. I've been there a few months ago and the free pencils and paper tape measures (rulers?) are still there and being used.