Amazon ending the "Amazon Smile" charity effective Feb 20

[AUS-97HORN 11,813]

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.

 

 

[Prepuce of Doom 21,100]

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

[Rimbo 26,038]

just removed another reason for me to shop through Amazon 

[Deej 76,887]

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. 

[atomheartbevo 89,776]

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.  

[Sam Lin 3,560]

Just got the email for that. Fuck you Amazon.

[Deej 76,887]

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

[Biff Tannen 45,704]

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. 

[CooterBrown 18,022]

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.

[Parliament 14,283]

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.

[27-25 2,047]

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.

[huge 3,795]

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

[Ten Bears 2,483]

Wait.  So this is supposed to be a smile?

 

I thought everyone knew that it was a penis.

[crash_davis 23,114]

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.

[Prepuce of Doom 21,100]

Currently have rung up $110.89 for the greyhound adoption group we got our dogs from. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4,976]

2 hours ago, Ten Bears said:

Wait.  So this is supposed to be a smile?

 

I thought everyone knew that it was a penis.

The blue origin rockets make so much more sense now.

[Samson's Wig 3,194]

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.

[Texas Jeff 1,945]

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.

[jimmyjazz 46,059]

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.

[crash_davis 23,114]

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.

Edited January 20, 2023 by crash_davis

[RPM 26,339]

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?

[crash_davis 23,114]

10 minutes ago, RPM said:

 How about you quit with the penis rocket shit

How else is he going to feud with Musk?

[CooterBrown 18,022]

How else is he going to feud with Musk?

By not going bankrupt?

[crash_davis 23,114]

1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:

By not going bankrupt?

you win the internet for today. 

[HamsterHookah 112]

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 January 20, 2023 by HamsterHookah

[JesusSweatDuck 17,803]

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