Doing any Xmas shopping? Help raise money for libcom.

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Nov 17 2008 00:14
Doing any Xmas shopping? Help raise money for libcom.

Dear all, if you were planning on doing any of your Xmas shopping on Amazon.co.uk, please visit this site via one of our specially formatted links such as this one:
Amazon.co.uk

5% of the price of all of your purchases will be given to libcom.org at no extra cost to the buyer. All you have to do is access Amazon using the link above.

You can access this link any time via http://libcom.org/notes/donate

To clarify, we are not encouraging people to shop on Amazon, but if people are going to already then please do so via this link. This deal runs all year round, not just at Christmas time

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Oct 20 2009 19:33

Is this deal continuing or will it eventually have a end date?

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Yorkie Bar
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Oct 20 2009 19:36

Lol, libcom pimps itself to Amazon.

New low.

~J.

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Oct 20 2009 19:49

it's been doing this for years!
I actually use the link every time I order.

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Oct 20 2009 20:38

Is it worth encouraging the Freedom bookshop or Housmans do do schemes as well?! grin

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Oct 20 2009 20:52

You are all selling out. *is disillusioned*

~J.

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Oct 20 2009 20:57

Is it possible to have an arrangement with other amazons as well, or are youse limited to the Uk one? Because I would totally go through your "shop" on the rare occasions when I can afford to buy shit online.

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Oct 20 2009 22:23

btw, this: www.libcom.org/shop doesn't work

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Oct 20 2009 22:24
Vlad336 wrote:
Is it possible to have an arrangement with other amazons as well, or are youse limited to the Uk one?

more limey anti-american snark.
fine, no pennies from me then.

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Oct 20 2009 22:28
petey wrote:
Vlad336 wrote:
Is it possible to have an arrangement with other amazons as well, or are youse limited to the Uk one?

more limey anti-american snark.
fine, no pennies from me then.

I think it's time for...
TEABAGGERS AGAINST LIBCOM! DON'T TREAD ON ME YOU LIMEY BASTARDS!
We are also against Obama, from an ultra-left perspective

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Oct 23 2009 15:29
Vlad336 wrote:
btw, this: www.libcom.org/shop doesn't work

thanks, now fixed.

At the moment this only works with the UK site. We would like to have a similar setup with ones in Canada or the US, but we would need a trustworthy person there to hold a bank account for us. If any one wants to do that let me know.

We did used to have a similar deal with a radical online bookstore as well, but it's shut down. If any other radical publishers could set up something similar, we would definitely sign up.

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Nov 20 2009 01:01

surely asking for donations is better than advertising for amazon?

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Nov 20 2009 05:47
TragicTravisty wrote:
surely asking for donations is better than advertising for amazon?

Please read the thread.

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To clarify, we are not encouraging people to shop on Amazon, but if people are going to already then please do so via this link. This deal runs all year round, not just at Christmas time
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Nov 20 2009 07:57

I know it's old news but:

http://www.princeton.edu/~greens/wg/labor_freetrade/amazoncom/oldindex.shtml

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Nov 20 2009 09:53

The link is not working Steven?

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Nov 23 2009 09:00

The links in the original post work.

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Nov 3 2010 19:00

bump!

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Nov 3 2010 20:25

This still working then?

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Nov 3 2010 20:29

it never stopped working

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Nov 3 2010 22:22

I'm just curious, how much cash has been raise from this?

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Nov 3 2010 22:25

yeah i still use this link all the time as I shop on amazon anyhow

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Nov 5 2010 10:35
ncwob wrote:
I'm just curious, how much cash has been raise from this?

it's not a huge amount, but it is an okay percentage of our total outgoings, something like £90 per year. Our hosting costs are something like £1200 a year. so we don't depend on it, but it helps as break even ( well , not break even because at the moment admin subs and user donations are exceeded by our costs, but help us lose less money each month)

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Nov 5 2010 10:42

sounds like libcom is a 'capitalist website', just like Wikipedia.

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Nov 5 2010 16:51

do you have a similar link for amazon.ca?

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Mike Harman
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Nov 5 2010 16:53

We'd need someone with a bank account in Canada to set that up.

Oh wait!

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Nov 5 2010 16:58

are you asking? I mean I can set up an account for youse...

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Nov 5 2010 18:04

I've still got a french bank account, but I don't think there are any libcom posters in France apart from samotnaf.

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Nov 14 2012 20:11

Bump. As its Christmas shopping time again!