[amsat-bb] Amazon Smile

[kb2m at comcast.net]

Easy Art....

I just went to smile.amazon.com to sign up. It also explains the whole thing...


73 Jeff KB2M

----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur Feller <afeller at ieee.org>
To: kb2m at comcast.net
Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:52:48 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Amazon Smile

Suggest explaining:

	[1] the nature of Amazon Smile,

	[2] how to sign up.

Hope this helps.

73, art…..
W4ART  Arlington VA


On 22-Jul-2014, at 01:50 PM, kb2m at comcast.net wrote:

> It just got me to sign up. I spend at least 10% of the total AMSAT smile amount every year on Amazon. If everyone signs up the total would be significantly larger...
> 
> 73 Jeff KB2M
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gus <gus at 8p6sm.net>
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:43:00 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Amazon Smile
> 
> It isn't a lot of revenue earned but it's one more capacitor on a 
> cubesat board, I guess.   The thing is to persuade more people to sign up.
> 
> On 07/22/2014 12:03 PM, Bryce Salmi wrote:
>> Thats actually an impressive total, the percentage for AMSAT Is small but
>> wow! Every bit counts.
>> 
>> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Brenton Salmi <kb1lqd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Wait, if my math is right that means a total of $13,324 has gone through
>>> Amazon smile in the name of AMSAT!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Brent
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Martha <martha at amsat.org <javascript:;>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> To date, we have received $66.62 from Amazon Smile
>>>> 
>>>> 73- Martha
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I've also signed up, and have probably bought a few hundred dollars
>>> worth
>>>>> of stuff since then.  .5% is not huge, and is probably more helpful to
>>>>> Amazon (via publicity) than to AMSAT, but it can't hurt.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I would add that usually I go directly to the Smile page with my link,
>>>> but
>>>>> on the rare occasion when I might follow another link or even type in
>>>>> amazon.com, Amazon reminds me that I am signed up for Smile.  Not bad.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Burns
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Bryan Herbert <ke6zgp at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>>> I also signed up and have bought a few things but it is my
>>>> understanding
>>>>>> only 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products goes to AMSAT.
>>> So
>>>> if
>>>>>> you buy a DVD worth $19.99 and it's eligible for AmazonSmile, roughly
>>>>> $0.10
>>>>>> of that $19.99 will go to AMSAT but I think Amazon waits until
>>>> something
>>>>>> like $100 is collected before sending any money to AMSAT.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Bryan Herbert - KE6ZGP
>>>>>> Newhall, CA. DM04RJ USA
>>>>>> http://bryanherbert.com
>>>>>> http://twitter.com/ke6zgp
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>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 73- Martha
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Gus 8P6SM
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