Target honeyfund?

My thoughts on it would be that Honeyfunds are a huge scam. People don't need to be told it's okay to gift money. Everyone knows that. Honeyfunds steal part of the gift money so it's a lose lose situation.

Not a fan of asking for money in any form.

I don't think you get cash, I think you pick a travel thing and it only goes to the vacation

The company Honeyfund partnered with Target so people can add it to their Target registry instead of going to a separate site. I watch Shark Tank every week and Honeyfund is a Shark Tank company and that information was shown on last weeks episode. I am not having a Honeyfund and think they are tacky just passing along the information on why it’s available on the Target registry now!

Plus they take a percentage which is shitty for your guests. If I want to gift you $100 I would be annoyed if you only got $93 or whatever the difference is. Your guests are paying their fees.

There isn't necessarily a fee for this service. If you use it to book travel with one of their providers it is free, and you also have the option of taking digital gift cards for no fee. To cash out to.your PayPal account is where they start to charge fees.

I'm not condoning honeyfunds, just trying to correct some misunderstandings about them.

Asking for money is not socially appropriate. Wedding gifts are not mandatory. Please don't ask people for money. If you can't afford a honeymoon, don't go on one. Many many happy and long marriages didn't have a honeymoon

View Quoted Comment

No, you actually get the money. It is deceptive because your guests think they are giving you an "experience" on your honeymoon, but instead they're paying a middleman to give you money when instead they could have just given it directly to you without a fee taken out.

View Quoted Comment

I also saw this on Shark Tank and since Kevin is behind it, I feel like it may be some kind of scam. I have never looked into it myself but I have heard they take a cut of your cash gift so it would be better to just let the person write you a check or gift cash if that is what they chose to do.

My fiance and I registered at Hotel.com for our honeymoon instead of a regular registry. We've been living together for about 9 years so we don't need any of the traditional things people register for.

View Quoted Comment

I have a Honeyfund and it's definitely not a scam. I don't think Target would have partnered with them if they weren't an upstanding company. They have a zero-fee option to redeem your funds which is great if you want to avoid using WePay. Other than that they're no middleman. I also don't see the different between asking for things vs. an experience. Personally, my experience has been great with Honeyfund and my fiance and I looking forward to traveling rather than getting China that would never see the light of day.

View Quoted Comment We 100% think it's a scam after the whole process of shutting down our Honeyfund. You don't ever ask for anything a registry is a list of suggestions. I personally find the whole scheme of Honeyfunds silly and unnecessarily complicated.

wanna guess how much in fees I paid to open cards filled with cash and checks? $0. I dont use WePay so that's another reason I'm not using a Honeyfund. When we visit foreign countries we use cash and one credit card. Im not using another service to avoid a fee for a complicated service which just makes gifting cash "seem" like gifting an experience.

I never got China either. I registered for useful items.

We are having a blast with it. We decided to do a European Adventure for our honeymoon, and we already agreed that cash gifts were going to be used for that purpose. We've customized to let people know they things we are doing instead of using just the pre-set options (Surprise you can make it ACTUAL ADVENTURES). We thought it of it as a cute way to let people know what we were doing and makes the thank you cards more fun to write. I.e.

Aunt Susan we are thrilled to look forward to our adventures at the Louvre. Thank you so much for giving us that opportunity!

Instead of

Thank you Aunt Susan for giving us $100 cash we'll use it to go see the Louvre.

See what happened there? But honestly it is 100% personal preference so people should stop being such Judgmental Janets if it's not for you cool, but no need to get down on others.

View Quoted Comment Except you could still have written the above even without a honeyfund. "Aunt Susan thank you so much for your generous gift! We can't wait to use it on a visit to the Louvre and it is so kind of you to give us the opportunity to have this adventure!" Even DH thinks honeyfunds are ridiculous and his knowledge of ettiquette is sketchy at best. They are dishonest- you do not get the actual thing your guests pay for, you get a check or a gift card or whatever for a certain amount, often minus a fee, because that is how these companies fund themselves. People have been sticking cash and checks in a card for decades without this. And it is different from a traditional registry, which is designed to help give ideas and prevent duplicate gifts. Pretty sure no one has a problem getting duplicate cash gifts. Sorry Aunt Kathy, but Aunt Sue already gave us $100, so you have to pick a different amount. Yeah, not a thing.

View Quoted Comment

You literally just pointed out its the same exact thing so why is one way better than the other? And quite frankly modern times calls for modern etiquette. I don't understand why people pick and choose which etiquette rules must stay and which etiquette rules are ok to ignore. I have yet to have anyone respond on why it is tacky to utilize a gift set up in the way I detailed, yet it is not tacky to assume that your guests should just give you cash instead? Or its not tacky to ask for a $500 espresso machine, but its tacky to register for airline flights? If you care to give an explanation I am happy to discuss.

View Quoted Comment I’m on the same page. But I also think traveling is extremely important and Americans don’t prioritize it enough, so I’m happy with people actually going on vacation. If you don’t need stuff, it’s a great idea. I don’t get the judging and I think the same people need to stop just attacking these threads. If they don’t like it....move on! 👋🏼