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Just realized - we used to spend a significant amount of money each month with #amazon and it was easy to justify because of #AmazonSmile. With that gone our purchases through Amazon have dropped to about 1/10th of what they were. That little perk held so much justification for not finding alternatives.
#idea: a browser plug in that shows you local shopping options when viewing product pages or search results on #Amazon
Since Amazon discontinued their #AmazonSmile program I've been making an effort to shop their site as little as possible, but I still use it to browse before shopping as locally as possible. Are there any existing browser extensions or other tools that make this approach easier?
Amazon has announced that it is discontinuing its #AmazonSmile program, which allows a portion of every purchase to go to charity. The inability to #Smile comes as no shock to #Amazon employees.
I guess now #AmazonSmile is going away I can finally turn off push notifications and the regular “we thought you’d like …”
If they offered me a new #RaspberryPi sensor each time I’d be down for but they seem oddly interested in supplying me mundane household stuff (a symptom of my mundane purchase history probs)
Sad that Amazon’s philanthropic arm, AmazonSmile, will be closing down later in February. It was such an easy way to support nonprofits. Right?
#AmazonSmile #philanthropy
It's sad to learn that #AmazonSmile is stopping donating to charities. It's even more depressing to learn that the program was never designed to be as generous as it was presented, but to fuck over Google and have to pay that company less in referral fees.
Amazon stellt die Unterstützung von gemeinnützigen Initiativen durch das Programm AmazonSmile ein. Auch das KOM-IN-Netzwerk hatte daran teilgenommen.
Auf unserer Spenden-Seite sind jedoch auch andere Möglichkeiten zu finden um unsere Dienste für blinde Menschen zu unterstützen. Besonders dankbar sind wir für regelmäßige Spenden. Auch Lastschriften sind möglich. Kontaktiert uns bei Fragen gern.
https://www.kom-in.de/spenden
#Support #Unterstützung #Spenden #Gemeinnützigkeit #Amazon #AmazonSmile
Amazon has announced that it is discontinuing its #AmazonSmile program, which allows a portion of every purchase to go to charity. The inability to #Smile comes as no shock to #Amazon employees.
Since Amazon announced the end of the #AmazonSmile program, I've been turning to eBay for some online purchases. It turns out that eBay can be quite good for used books!
For purposes of detaching more from Amazon, I'm wondering what other vendors people like, especially for books and #used goods.
So #Amazon are shutting down their #AmazonSmile at in Feb. So many charities are going to loose out. - Bad news - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64397651
Hey folks. I’m interested in everyone’s suggestions on their favorite alternatives to shopping on #amazon. I should have stopped shopping with them a long time ago, but I didn’t. However, their recent decision the eliminate the #AmazonSmile program has me pretty disgusted, and I don’t think I’m going to renew my Prime membership when it’s up soon. I try to shop local when I can, and I don’t mind paying a little extra, but any recommendations on comparable alternatives would be greatly appreciated, even if it means going to Site X for housewares and Site Y for electronics, etc.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my poll about #AmazonSmile. I was trying to figure out how it could have, in their own words, “not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped.”
Turns out either not enough people used it or not enough people started browsing from the smile.Amazon.com link and instead bought from Google searches. When that happens, they have to pay Google the affiliate fee…so no charity donation.
#IndieAuthorNews #LatestNews #AIaudiobooknarration #AmazonSmile #chatGPT #DigitalBookWorld #DungeonsandDragons
Self-publishing News: KDP Select paid $522m in 2022 – so just how big is the indie ebook market?
KDP Select paid $522m in 2022. Wizards of the Coast Agrees to Dungeons and Dragons Creative Commons License.
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Self-publishing News: KDP Select paid $522m in 2022 – so just how big is the indie ebook market? https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-kdp-select-paid-522m-in-2023-so-just-how-big-is-the-indie-ebook-market/ #AIaudiobooknarration #DungeonsandDragons #WizardsoftheCoast #DigitalBookWorld #AmazonSmile #LatestNews #chatGPT
@charityjen at our non profit, we are time/people poor, not money poor. We don't use #AmazonSmile but if we did I'm sure we could easily find equivalent funding elsewhere - as long as we have the people with time to go look for it (which we do).
Question for #noprofit staffers: #AmazonSmile will be discontinued on February 20.
How does this affect your work?
Please #boost. I am very curious about this topic!
