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New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-27
Not everyone can afford to waste money on donations, but nearly everyone shops online at some point.
Now you can show your appreciation & support for Southperry, at no extra cost to you, simply by including a referral/associate ID tag for Southperry in your Amazon.com purchases. You get the same shiny price you've come to know and love from Amazon, Amazon gets their money & attention and Southperry gets a tiny slice of what you were going to be giving to Amazon anyway.
This form of support is completely anonymous, available to members and lurkers alike, and relatively painless so for those of you who've lamented not being able to give back and show your support before, here's a quick and simple way. You can even ask family and friends to use the link to do their shopping - It's a completely transparent tracker that won't change anything about how they use or experience the Amazon site, just means SP will get a bit of a kickback at the end.
To participate you can use the support link at the top of the page to do your shopping (in a separate window), bookmark the appropriate click through link for your version of Amazon from the list below or replace your browser's Amazon search with our tagged version.
Browser Search Links
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Click Thru Links:
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Important Note
You must use one of the tagged links as the means by which you put the items in your cart, you can not put stuff in the cart then come to Southperry to do the check-out; the whole process has to have started here to get credited.
Additionally various terms throughout the forum may become Amazon hyperlinks to provide contextually relevant sales opportunities. Note that when following a Southperry link to amazon anything you purchase will credit us, you don't have to purchase a specific item or the item that you originally enter the site by.
Thanks for your support!
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Corn - 2010-10-27
Now to convince my dad to use this...
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-27
heh. I just reconfigured all the bookmarks and search links in various people's homes with their permission.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Kevo - 2010-10-27
Wow... I just ordered something from Amazon >.<
By the way, is Amazon.ca even eligible for this? I only see Amazon.com up there.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-27
Kevo Wrote:Wow... I just ordered something from Amazon >.<
By the way, is Amazon.ca even eligible for this? I only see Amazon.com up there.
No
Gets messy quick trying to support every region since they all have different IDs and addresses. I may go so far as to support the .ca and .co.uk as well but that's probably it.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Birdie - 2010-10-27
I just bought stuff yesterday too, used a giftcard though so i dunno if it would have worked. I'll keep this in mind if i get anything else from amazon.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-27
Supposedly method of payment doesn't matter, so even gift card purchases will count.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-27
Ok I've added support for co.uk and .ca as well and added the link to our quick-buttons.
Where it sends you will depend on your country being indicated in the user profile, with usa & default being amazon.com, uk being Amazon.co.uk and canada being Amazon.ca
And made a pair of tags;
Code:
[noparse]
[amazon]XBOX 360[/amazon]
[amazon="B003VUO6H4"]Playstation 3[/amazon]
[/noparse]Quote:[amazon]XBOX 360[/amazon]
[amazon="B003VUO6H4"]Playstation 3[/amazon]
The crappy thing about the latter format is the ASIN is region specific, so links created for .com will not work for .co.uk or .ca, they'll return product not found messages in most cases, but allow for the searching of the intended item from there while still giving credit for any purchases.
Those of you sensing some potential content-aware links in our near future get a cookie. The digital kind. From google. They're tracking your every move.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - ranmalover - 2010-10-27
Eosian Wrote:They're tracking your every move.
George Orwell 1984 or anywhere u live in the usa today.... BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-27
ranmalover Wrote:George Orwell 1984 or anywhere u live in the usa today.... BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
And broadcasting to youtube.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - 2147483647 - 2010-10-28
Do users get donator status from this?
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-28
2147483647 Wrote:Do users get donator status from this?
Let's use that deductive reasoning you expect the rest of the world to bless you with in answering your every whimsical question.
Eosian Wrote:This form of support is completely anonymous, available to members and lurkers alike.
So. Using those two bits of information, how exactly would that work?
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New Way you too can Support Southperry! - 2147483647 - 2010-10-28
I thought you meant that users can choose to be anonymous.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - rayhovite - 2010-10-30
Let me show you my Amazons. My Amazons let me show you them.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to do an extra couple clicks for SP.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - larmie - 2010-10-30
The links turn to "http://www.amazon.com/ref=nb_sb_noss_null/" followed by a bunch of numbers. I don't think this is how it's supposed to work...
Eosian Wrote:Those of you sensing some potential content-aware links in our near future get a cookie. The digital kind. From google. They're tracking your every move.
Great, now I have to disable cookies from Google, which means I can't uncensor my search results. Time to switch to Yahoo
Would opt-out be possible?
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Fiel - 2010-10-30
The google tracking cookie has been on here for well over a year. You're already infected, or so it seems.
For the content-aware links, can donors have it disabled? noadskthxbye
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-10-30
Fiel Wrote:For the content-aware links, can donors have it disabled? noadskthxbye
Maybe. They'd actually be contextual links, not content aware links, so if you mentioned an XBOX for example the word XBOX may hyperlink automatically. No where near as intrusive as the real ads.
Still in R&D though so we'll see if it becomes a reality or not.
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - ImagineAll - 2010-10-31
Eosian Wrote:Let's use that deductive reasoning you expect the rest of the world to bless you with in answering your every whimsical question.lololololololol
So. Using those two bits of information, how exactly would that work?
On topic: Wow, this sounds like such a good idea! /endpostingtoavoidspamminginfraction
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Zelkova - 2010-11-01
i buyed musiks for my dad using your linkie. It was only like..30 dollars or something, so maybe youll get a small chunk. ^^
New Way you too can Support Southperry! - Eos - 2010-11-01
Zelkova Wrote:i buyed musiks for my dad using your linkie. It was only like..30 dollars or something, so maybe youll get a small chunk. ^^
May I show what the report I get looks like so everyone who's curious/concerned can see there's no identifying information about who did it? It's just a list of product names/prices.