I haven't had a chance to check out Buy Happy yet, but it seems to me that displaying competing prices on product pages rather than when adding to cart might be a better experience. I use price as one of the deciding factors on whether to buy, and there have been a few times where the lower price that Invisible Hand found convinced me to actually buy a product.
Perhaps both approaches are useful.
The reason the cart method is powerful is because shipping can be compared (FS on $X+) as well as promo codes or other cart-based deals.
Not trying to be trollish, but I genuinely dislike this sort of monetizing and wish these extensions were at least more upfront about it.
Do you have a reason for feeling this way, aside from not wanting someone else to earn money from your action?
They are providing you with a service that saves you money, so I don't understand the hesitation.
It's the third item on their FAQ (http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/faq). That's hardly hidden. I don't even use these services, but it seems like a reasonable way to make money.
> Buy Happy retail partners will soon be giving you deals to share with friends and family via social media. And we’ll be adding more powerful features to Buy Happy as well — while building a fun community along the way. Isn’t it time to add Buy Happy to your browser?
Basically, this is a data-farm.
At the moment, the best price we've found on this product is on Best Buy. If you add it to your cart and view your cart, you should see a best price confirmation.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/radar-laser-detector/1470022.p?i...
You only see a confirmation if we could find a match. Otherwise, we stay out of your way.
This Blu-ray player is cheaper elsewhere:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+Smart+Blu-ray+Player/7829...
Add it to your cart and go to your cart and you'll see a better offer.
Updated the comment to be more clear.
Our Zinc Save [0] extension takes a slightly different approach. We add a button on at checkout that guarantees a fixed, better price. If you use it, we then do the price shopping for you and place the order on your behalf. If we don't get the price we promised, we keep or eat the difference.
[0] zincsave.com
I get this error code in the console when the extension is turned on:
Denying load of chrome-extension://amplgponnfkfhnbgojhehcaaiocgmpam/jquery.min.map. Resources must be listed in the web_accessible_resources manifest key in order to be loaded by pages outside the extension.
(I'm using Chrome Version 33.0.1750.146)
As far as we know, that error is harmless. It has never affected us negatively before.
Can you give more details about which extensions stopped working?
Thanks
If you're not in the US, you can give a try to our extension Shoptimate [0]. It does not compare in your cart but at the product page.
