Six years ago, I wrote about my initial suspicions, and later wholehearted embrace, of the PriceBlink add-on for my Web browser. Whenever I shopped online, it automatically searched other sites for the same item at a lower price, making comparison shopping easy. It could even locate coupon codes for me to save me more money at whichever site I was using.
I continued to use this browser extension for several years, but when I installed the latest version of Firefox on my computer, I could no longer get it to work. Every time I tried to install it, I got a "connection failure" message. So, for a while, I gave up and went back to comparing prices and finding coupon codes the (somewhat) old-fashioned way, hunting them out one at a time for each item. It was still a lot easier than comparing prices the genuinely old-fashioned, pre-Internet way, by physically going around to different stores, so it didn't bother me much.
But recently, Money Crashers invited me to write an article about a new browser extension called Honey, which appears to do many of the same things PriceBlink used to do for me. It can't compare prices across different sites, but it can compare prices from different sellers on Amazon, as well as automatically tracking down coupon codes and, on many sites, giving you cash back. After a little discussion with my editor, this proposed piece turned into a roundup of nine browser extensions that save you money online in a variety of ways. They compare prices, find coupon codes, provide cash back, track Amazon prices over time so you can see when you're getting a good deal, and warn you when online reviews of a product appear to be fake.
For me, Honey appeared to be the best of the bunch, so I'm now running that on my browser, and it has already saved me nearly $20 on a pair of winter boots. Check out the article, and you might just find a browser add-on (or several) that will work equally well for you.
8 Best Browser Extensions to Save Money While Shopping Online
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