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10-30-2013, 01:51 PM | #1 | |
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AmazonSmile: Amazon will donate to charity of your choice with each purchase
From Amazon Launches AmazonSmile – A Simple, Automatic Way For Customers To Support Their Favorite Charitable Organizations:
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From then on, make your purchases at smile.amazon.com, and the charity of your choice will receive 0.5% of the purchase price. Be sure to update your browser's bookmark if you use that when buying at Amazon.com. |
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10-30-2013, 02:47 PM | #2 |
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Thank you for pointing this out. As much money as Amazon brings in, this could end up really helping a lot of charities.
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10-30-2013, 03:00 PM | #3 |
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Yes! For example, 0.5% of $1,000 is only $5, which doesn't seem like much, but when multiplied by purchases made by millions of customers, the amount donated to charities could really add up.
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10-30-2013, 03:50 PM | #4 |
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My daughter's school's PTA was already doing this, I think via an affiliate link. So isn't this the same as the affiliate program, but only for non-profits? How much do affiliates make? 0.5%? I see our PTA is listed in the smile program. I guess the benefit to this, as opposed to the affiliate program, is that it's more "exposed." Previously I could use the affiliate link, but it wouldn't say on the site that I was shopping to benefit the PTA. I still have to remember to go through a special link!
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I wonder how you give out a persistent link with the charity attached? Charities don't want to say "go to smile.amazon.com and search for us," they want to give out a LINK. I tried the Facebook share (well I previewed it, I didn't actually post it) and it didn't look like the charity was attached.
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Note that the charitable organization needs to register with AmazonSmile in order to receive donations allocated to them. There's more information about that here (AmazonSmile Org Central). You can find contact information there, too. Quote:
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10-31-2013, 12:46 AM | #7 |
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I don't get it. Does this replace affiliate links, or does an affiliate still get a percentage? I think affiliate links pay more than 0.5 percent.
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Well, if I was feeling paranoid and all, I'd say it was so Amazon could get lots of goodwill from the anouncement but not have to give much money to the charities.
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I expect that most customers won't regularly purchase through AmazonSmile, especially since so much traffic is driven to Amazon via affiliates whose links will generally lead to Amazon.com. It would be better if Amazon either gave this option at Amazon.com checkout or allowed customers to choose one charity through the regular Amazon site. As MikeB pointed out, Amazon probably has their reasons for not doing it that way. But for those of us willing to change the way we buy at Amazon, it's a painless (and no-cost) method to direct a little extra money to charity. I changed my browser bookmark to go directly to smile.amazon.com (with my preferred affiliate tag attached) instead of Amazon.com, so I don't think it'll be a big adjustment for me. |
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When I click through from a promo email I got from Amazon, it goes to the "smile" url with my charity attached. This is different from the affiliate program, and a very nice touch by Amazon, IMO!
I am still curious about the percentages for smile vs affiliate, though. eP |
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I'm very happy about this. We do a ton of shopping at Amazon, especially at this time of year.
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Wow, that's a first. Amazon are notorious for not giving to charity. Well, I guess they'll do it if it increases revenues. But it's a good thing if it helps someone in need.
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