Yes, the holidays are coming, and that means…Amazon!
[BUMPED UP]
It’s that time. Again.
It’s almost Thanksgiving. And that means that Christmas, Chanukah, and whatever other holiday might suit your diverse fancies are all coming up sooner than you think.
So I’m encouraging you to feel their hot panting breaths on your neck, and to solve all your gift-giving dilemmas by turning to that online colossus, Amazon.
And if you use those widgets on my right sidebar to click through for all your Amazon purchases (now and at any other time of year) you will also be giving a small but still not insignificant gift to neo-neocon (it adds up, folks), and all without spending any extra money yourself. What could be more wonderful?
I thank you all in advance. And I’ll be bumping this up and/or re-posting it every now and then until Christmas.
[NOTE: In case you have ad blocker or something of that sort, and the Amazon widgets don’t show up on your computer, go here. You can also click on any Amazon book link within a post and anything you order during that click-through gets credited to me. I believe it’s true even for things you put in your cart but don’t order till a bit later, although there’s a time limit on how long they can be there and still get credited when ordered (I’m not sure what that limit is, though, so best to order sooner rather than later).]
I promise to send a direct donation in December. (I don’t use amazon.)
PS: Your well researched blog is much appreciated by all persons of high quality, and even me. 😉
Just unblocked and used the portal, neo. Not a big-budget buy, but one I think you’ll approve of – Bloom’s “Closing of the American Mind.”
Dammit… I just ordered two expensive Samsonite suitcases from Amazon. Is there anything that you can do to highlight your Amazon link. Us old folks need some help with our memories from time to time
John Dough:
Well, next time.
I haven’t a clue how to highlight it, though.
Neo. Consider this. Can you get the Amazon link to slowly “surge” when we come to the site? When I click on my local newspaper, an ad pop up for for 3 to 5 seconds on the main page. Perhaps you could do the same with your website…just a thought.
FWIW, here’s what I did maybe a year ago:
I accessed Amazon using the portal link provided by Neo, then logged into my Amazon account, then bookmarked that page and named it “Neo’s Amazon”. I usually use Mozilla Firefox and it’s right up there on my bookmarks ribbon along with my other bookmark folders for ‘Blogs’, ‘Banking’, ‘Weather’, etc.
Whenever I open Amazon I just hit that bookmark (because it’s right there and easy to see) and it takes me directly to my homepage on Amazon.
I can’t be sure that she’s still getting her “vig” from my purchases made this way, but I think she is; we ran a test last year on one purchase and it worked then.
I use the same method as Carl, since it’s easy to forget using search engine + amazon. Neo’s blog isn’t mentally categorized by me as a search engine or a shopping site.