[News] Amazon prime account?

[Hillian1]

Anyone with an Amazon account can now sign up to Amazon Smile.

Essentially, for every purchase you make Amazon will donate 0.5% to your allotted Charity.

Make it so.

 

[BNthree]

Albion in the Community is one of the many charities you could choose.

 

[Hillian1]

Please click on the Amazon link

 

[Goldstone1976]

I’d rather they paid their UK taxes than try to bribe public opinion by offering a 0.5% of spend donation to a charity, tbh.

That said, given I have little ability to make them be a decent corporate guest in our country, I might as well take the 30 pieces of silver.

 

[beorhthelm]

I’d rather they paid their UK taxes than try to bribe public opinion by offering a 0.5% of spend donation to a charity, tbh.

That said, given I have little ability to make them be a decent corporate guest in our country, I might as well take the 30 pieces of silver.

0.5% of their revenue is probably more than 20% of profits attributable to UK, if everyone took up the offer.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I always make Amazon purchases through the NSC link

 

[seagulls4ever]

According to this link (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/node/topic/202049200), the Amazon Associates program can exist alongside the Amazon Smile program. Perhaps [MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] can change his affiliate link to begin with smile.amazon.co.uk (instead of amazon.co.uk), which will mean both NSC and charities will benefit from purchases made after clicking on the link.

 

[Goldstone1976]

0.5% of their revenue is probably more than 20% of profits attributable to UK, if everyone took up the offer.

You think they’re making less than 2.5% net margin? Ok then.

 

[beorhthelm]

You think they’re making less than 2.5% net margin? Ok then.

maybe not that low, i didnt think the actual numbers through so "probably" is wrong word. its worth considering though, they are a high volume box shifter, so not high margin. i did read that ~70% of their revenue comes from AWS.

 

[Goldstone1976]

maybe not that low, i didnt think the actual numbers through so "probably" is wrong word. its worth considering though, they are a high volume box shifter, so not high margin. i did read that ~70% of their revenue comes from AWS.

The standard commission they offer through their affiliate programme goes up to 10% of revenue for some categories of goods. I know a couple of website owners that are part of their affilate programme - they reckon they get an average of 5-7% back. One can only assume there’s still money being made by Amazon...