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Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
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Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#12There's a catch... It only works if you go to http://smile.amazon.com, using the regular amazon won't do anything.
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#13Amazon may be making more profit on these purchases, rather than less--utilizing the potent marketing skills of non-profit organizations to direct more dollars to Amazon without Amazon having to pay higher affiliate fees. I'm not an expert, but I think Amazon's affiliate fees can be as high as 10% of the purchase price. 0.5% is a 20x cheaper customer acquisition cost.
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#14Errr, out of 1 million eligible 501c's how many are "controversial"? as in political shills or fronts for religious nut jobs?
I wonder how Amazon plans to deal with the inevitable "why did you donate to a charity supporting / opposing $ISSUE?
Edit: well kids that's what happens if you comment before coffee - a negative take on something that has a decent potential to up the level of giving USA wide by a huge margin. Visit givewell.org and choose your favourite.
may as well make that prime account count - let me know when the UK can join in too.
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#15The first thing I thought when I saw this was awesome!
The second thing I thought was that I'd never remember to use it.
Just whipped up a tiny little chrome extension that will always redirect you to smile.amazon.com when you go to Amazon. It's not well tested, so could screw you up a bunch, but figured I'd share.
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#16yup that's also the amount of taxes amazon's paying in europe
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#17I wouldn't expect it to be too difficult to incorporate one's own charity these days.
A 0.5% effective rebate on everything you purchase on Amazon is better than many bank accounts offer...
Re: Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your purchases to the charity of your choice
#18Amazon may be making more profit on these purchases, rather than less--utilizing the potent marketing skills of non-profit organizations to direct more dollars to Amazon without Amazon having to pay higher affiliate fees. I'm not an expert, but I think Amazon's affiliate fees can be as high as 10% of the purchase price. 0.5% is a 20x cheaper customer acquisition cost.
One reason why they axed down socialvest.com and aflattr.com support and started doing smile. Nothing new, but cheaper.