Time Well Spent — See prices in hours

Name: Time Well Spent — See prices in hours
Rating: 3.1578947368421053 (19 reviews)
Author: gregrgreiner

Replace all prices with time based on your hourly wage.

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Time Well Spent — See prices in hours is a practical Chrome extension that transforms your online shopping experience by converting product prices into the equivalent amount of working hours needed to afford them. By inputting your hourly wage after taxes, the extension dynamically replaces prices on popular shopping sites such as Amazon, eBay, and Target with the time you must work to earn that amount.

This intuitive tool helps you better gauge the real value and affordability of products, promoting smarter spending decisions and increased financial awareness. Ideal for budget-conscious shoppers, Time Well Spent empowers you to evaluate purchases beyond mere numbers and truly understand their impact on your time and income.

Productivity Financial Services Shopping

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3.0 Last updated: 2023-12-28

Creation date:

2018-05-12

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68.52K

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gr*****@gmail.com

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

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a day ago

Ranking

# 38,104 ▲ 1,866

Other rankings

#1297 in Shopping ▲ 3 #8 in prices keyword 51 #16 in spend keyword 25 #145 in price keyword 56 ▼ 11

User reviews

Users appreciate the innovative idea of translating prices into hours worked to promote mindful spending. However, many report critical issues: the extension primarily supports only US currency and tax systems, limiting its usefulness abroad; usability is hampered by glitches, input problems, and slow responses; and price conversions are sometimes inaccurate or inconsistent. Additionally, it replaces actual price numbers entirely, which some find frustrating. Overall, while the concept is praised, technical and regional limitations significantly affect user experience.

Pros

Great idea that helps users rethink purchases by converting prices into hours of work
Helpful mental framing for understanding the time cost of purchases
Generally converts prices on many websites

Cons

Only supports USD and US tax/income systems; lacks multi-currency and international support
Bugs and glitches causing usability issues such as shaking screen, slow saving, and input difficulties
Inaccurate or inconsistent price-to-time conversions on some sites
Does not work on some popular sites like Amazon outside the US
Replaces price numbers completely, preventing viewing of actual price
Unclear or inappropriate calculation methods (e.g., gross vs net income)

Recent reviews

This implementation replaces the number completely so you are not able to see the actual price It does not recognize text strings such as thousand, million

Matthew Kowal, 2022-12-13

Love the idea but its a shame its unexcetionaly buggy :(

Michael HaZe, 2019-11-04

I think this extension is so helpful, HOWEVER, it would be super great if you could also enter the number of hours in your typical workday for very large purchases. For example, I had something up that said it was only going to take 132 days of work to pay off, but multiplied by the typical # of hours in a workday (8), it actually came out to 1056 days! From ~1/3 of a year to almost 3 years! Huge difference in mental framing.

Troy Brennan, 2019-09-24

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Time Well Spent — See prices in hours requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

Time Well Spent — See prices in hours has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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