Love it or hate it, online shopping is pretty essential when you live in rural France.
These are ALL things that I have bought and found useful, good value for money and would buy again.
Enjoy!
Check out this page from francemadesim https://amzn.eu/d/0hG6B6Au
Ethiopian cookbook!!! Apart from that an interesting link. I buy a lot of stuff on Amazon and can feel my credit card sweating when I look at my list of past orders.
So, if we bookmark this link to enter Amazon for our purchases, do you get a small commission on the purchases? Does the link via Dickies shirts still work? Does this link replace it?
Sounds like a painless way to support the forum.
Exactly that. And all the Amazon links continue to function , so yes re the dickies shirt!
It is a very easy and painless way to support SF so if you shop at Amazon, please do go via my storefront. And you never know, you might even want an Ethiopian cookbook…(it was a Christmas present for someone!)
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I am surprised there has been no reaction to Cat’s post!. This is a excellent way to support the site at no cost to yourselves. It is so easy to bookmark the site and do your Amazon shopping from there.
I know there are a few Amazonphobes on the site but, for the more practical of us, it is a no brainer.
Rather than add yet another bookmark I have put the site directly on my home screen. If you have an Android 'phone, you simply click the three dots for a menu and choose “add to home screen”. If you are on Windows, right click on the desk top and choose select "shortcut " then copy and paste the URL . Next time you want to shop on Amazon the icon is there in front of you ready to go.
Please support Cat and the site.
Edit: I was only joking about the Ethiopian Cookbook but my curiosity is piqued now.
I do use amazon, but always forget to go through SF. Must try harder 
. Maybe a (permanent) link on the home page would help.
Or just a bookmark on your browser - I’ve put mine next to my SF bookmark and called it SF Amazon.
So does clicking the link in your first post place a cookie that, say, counts you as the link for anything purchased for the next month? some cookies work like that. If so then I’ll just set up in my calendar a reminder to click your link just in case every 1st of the month.
Or must the link be used each time? I have a monthly Amazon subscription for pet food which is most of what I buy from Amazon, not sure if that could then count as using your link?
I buy a lot from Lidl though, not aware of any affiliate links on Lidl orher than cashback.sites. I would switch all my Lidl purchasing via you immediately if you do have a way of getting an affiliate link set up there. I know they have some sort of parrainage but think it’s via cashback.sites I saw it - and that wouldn’t be just Lidl but anything bought via the cashback.site.
I understood Amazon lasted for 24 hours, but it applies to all purchases, so if Cat links to some socks, you click the link, don’t want the socks but then buy a TV, the TV should count even though it was something you found independently. If you put the socks in your cart, don’t immediately buy them but buy them a week (or up to 90 days) later, the affiliate link still registers. But this isn’t my area of expertise so this may not be accurate.
Yes that is pretty much it - thank you @kirsteastevenson ! It may be up to 48 hours but Amazon constantly move the goalposts (bless!) so 24 is probably safer!
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I think a button on SF (if possible) would be useful, especially for new arrivals to the site.
Shortcuts are a good idea unless you are like me and have far too many that meant something once.
I find putting an icon on your desktop or home screen (as mentioned in my last post) is a very useful tool. Only a single click and you are instantly shopping on Amazon
A quick calc shows I have spent over €45 000 at Lidl…