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Amazon ending the "Amazon Smile" charity effective Feb 20

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its a "cost cutting" move  because its "ability to have an impact was spread too thin"

This kind of sucks, 0.005 might not seem like much but I know its helped a lot of charities, especially during covid.

 

I give my own donations to my charities of choice every December, but this was a nice help to the smaller ones.

 

 

At least that will save us from that occasional frustration when we discover after the fact that we used the regular site on accident. 

just removed another reason for me to shop through Amazon 

3 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

At least that will save us from that occasional frustration when we discover after the fact that we used the regular site on accident. 

So many times. Shouldn't they just have let us opt in? I'd always forget to switch over. 

I have a feeling the vast majority of organizations were probably one or two people who thought it’d act like an affiliate program for them.   Or the organizations got in and then didn’t do enough to promote it to their followers.  

It sucks. They’ve still got wishlists and a few other ways organizations can benefit.  

Just got the email for that. Fuck you Amazon.

Guess they weren't getting a big enough tax write-off.

24 minutes ago, Deej said:

So many times. Shouldn't they just have let us opt in? I'd always forget to switch over. 

That was a feature, not a bug. 

So many times. Shouldn't they just have let us opt in? I'd always forget to switch over. 

There’s a Chrome plugin that’ll redirect any Amazon url to smile.Amazon.com so you don’t have to think about it. Not that it matters now.

I cancelled Amazon last fall.  Price kept going up and I realized all their shows were dad TV trash.  Felt real good.  And it turns out, of you order enough and are patient for slower shipping, they ship it free anyway.

A local historical society was my designated charity.  With my and other members' contributions I think they were netting a couple hundred bucks year.

I'm sad to see it go.

Kids school was getting decent money from them.  I'm sure we will survive.

Wait.  So this is supposed to be a smile?

Amazon Logo

 

I thought everyone knew that it was a penis.

We gave to Helping Hand Home for foster children in Austin. Wife volunteers time to read to kids there. We give them annual donations. But yea, the Amazon check helped too.

Fuck Amazon for this. Guess that $1 trillion market cap was in jeopardy.

2 hours ago, Ten Bears said:

Wait.  So this is supposed to be a smile?

Amazon Logo

 

I thought everyone knew that it was a penis.

The blue origin rockets make so much more sense now.

15 hours ago, Parliament said:

I cancelled Amazon last fall.  Price kept going up and I realized all their shows were dad TV trash.  Felt real good.  And it turns out, of you order enough and are patient for slower shipping, they ship it free anyway.

I think the algorithm assumed you wanted dad trash tv based on your shopping and web browsing profile and pushed it forward for you.  Plenty of great content on there that doesn't fit that profile.  I still don't think cancelling was a bad idea, though.

I used to be involved with a non-profit and this will kinda suck for them.  We had some cash flow from the Randalls card, but it was declining along with Randalls.  The Smile proceeds were a hockey stick during COVID and they had already replaced our Randalls revenue and were becoming significant.

It was easy revenue compared with other fundraisers.

23 hours ago, crash_davis said:

We gave to Helping Hand Home for foster children in Austin.

At my previous gig we would collect money & buy Christmas gifts for a couple dozen Helping Hand Home kids every year.  That's an awesome place.

9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

At my previous gig we would collect money & buy Christmas gifts for a couple dozen Helping Hand Home kids every year.  That's an awesome place.

Many many years ago, my daughters went to Lee Elementary. They became friends with some of the foster girls from Helping Hands. It was sad because eventually the kids would stop attending Lee. Never heard reasons why.

After getting to know the kids, you just want to help that place. The kids so want to be part of a normal family. It's heartbreaking to see how wonderful they are. It's sad to see that didn't have much of a chance or say in their situation. I get sad thinking about some of my daughter's friends, wondering where they are now.

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Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children has been my designated charity since I found out about Smile. This sucks. How about you quit with the penis rocket shit and give that money away instead?

10 minutes ago, RPM said:

 How about you quit with the penis rocket shit

How else is he going to feud with Musk?

1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:


By not going bankrupt?

you win the internet for today. 

1 hour ago, RPM said:

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children has been my designated charity since I found out about Smile. This sucks. How about you quit with the penis rocket shit and give that money away instead?

Same. Just logged in to check. This is not a ton of money for an organization like TSRH, but it's not completely insignificant either.

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Your current charity
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
has received

$36,207.22
as of November 2022

 

 

Edited by HamsterHookah

On 1/18/2023 at 9:45 PM, Deej said:

So many times. Shouldn't they just have let us opt in? I'd always forget to switch over. 

Can't, would fuck over affiliates who drive a lot of traffic to Amazon.  Smile breaks affiliate links

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