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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
That wasn't deliberate. It's news to me that you get your own favorite charity when you click on such a URL. Thanks for that tip!
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Well, after rethinking what I had written earlier, if you copied the URL from another source, the smile.Amazon money would normally have gone to that other source. But, if you stripped the URL of the tags indicating what the source was, I see no way for the source to have gotten anything out of it.
You have to designate a source, of course. Since you didn't have anyone designated to receive the funds, I guess that they were just lost. I don't remember, now, if the book that you posted was free or not, but if Amazon charged for it, I think that the percentage that they donate is 2%. But, maybe I'm thinking 2%, because it is the percentage of purchases on my credit card that goes toward a cashback bonus. ha Of course, if it was free, the charity would get 2% of $0, which, of course, is $0.
The recipient doesn't have to be a charity,
per se, but it probably has to be a non-profit organization. I've designated my paltry amount to go to one of the colleges of which I'm an alum. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to make sure to put "smile." at the beginning of the URL's that I navigate to. Part of the reason is that the amount is usually so tiny that I don't bother to make a point to remember to do it. But, of course, pennies add up and if every alum did it consistently, it would amount to more than chump change.
I've probably stated something inaccurate in what I've written above. The best thing to do is to find the Amazon webpage that explains it all. And, it seems like there must be a way for the "smile." to appear automatically on every Amazon webpage that I go to, but it doesn't. I need to read up on that, myself, and find out how to get that to happen all of the time.