Let's Get It Started

Okay, this is a little long, but the basics are very easy so stick with me. We're going to get Moddy Christmas started right now because of all you early shoppers. So read on and I'll explain what it is and how you can participate.

If you hang out in the Splitcoast forums much, you know our moderators and group leaders are a hard-working bunch. They're here everyday, answering Private Messages and e-mails, approving group memberships, approving gallery uploads, breaking up cat fights, and keeping threads and posts organized and orderly. They don't get a lot of recognition, even though the forums (and largely the entire site) couldn't run without them!

Many people buy online during the holidays, and no one is bigger than amazon.com. Splitcoast is part of the Amazon Associates program, whereby we benefit from every Amazon purchase made in the name of Splitcoaststampers. So what we did last year and we're doing again this year, is taking all the proceeds from these holiday sales and giving them to our moderators and group leaders, in the form of Amazon gift certificates.

Give the mods a Merry Christmas!
Would you like to participate? It's extremely simple and no hassle, just two quick steps.

1. Click the Amazon graphic on our home page.
(You'll find the graphic at the bottom left of our home page. Clicking it will forward you to the Amazon site. Everything will look normal but don't worry, Amazon will recognize that you've come from Splitcoast. Don't see the graphic? Read on for a link you can use.)

2. Shop as normal, and complete your purchase.

For any purchase you make in the 24-hour period after you clicked the link, Amazon will pay us a referral fee, typically 6-9%. We'll split up the proceeds between all the moderators and group leaders as a special thank you from the rest of the Splitcoast community.

That's it! Stay tuned to the home page for updates all through the holidays.

No strings
There's no requirement that you be logged in here, or even that you be a Splitcoast member, just that you access Amazon through the link on our site. Any purchases you make will be credited to us, and gifted entirely to our moderators.

Thank you, mods!
Our forum and gallery moderators spend countless hours here, helping make the community a better place. Leaders of the Random Acts of Kindness (RAK), Stamp Out Fat (SOF), Divine Secret Siblings and Stampin' Flybabies groups answer innumerable inquiries and pleas for help. Thank you to all our mods!

Personal gifts
If you'd like to make a direct gift in any amount, you can do that too. Your gift will be added to the referral fees we earn from Amazon, and gifted to the mods.
I wanna make a cash gift!

Payments are processed through PayPal. If you don't have PayPal or don't want to use PayPal, simply indicate that you don't have a PayPal account when asked to login. You'll then have your choice of credit/debit/charge cards.

Share a link
If you can't see the Amazon button on our home page (bottom left) or you want to tell someone else about Moddy Christmas, here's a link you can use:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=splitcoaststa-20

For the nerds among us
There's also a way that you can make your purchase go even further. To increase the portion of your purchase that comes back to Splitcoast, you can follow an alternate set of instructions. It's more steps and a little more difficult, but it increases the percentage that comes back to us:

1. Find a product you want on Amazon.

2. Look on the page and find the ASIN#.
(this number can be found directly below the product listing, included with the shipping and sales rank information, and usually looks something like this: B000B6MLUA)

3. Plug that number into this address link:
(take out the x's in the address below and put the ASIN# in their place)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/XXXXX/splitcoaststa-20

4. Reload the Amazon page using this new address, and complete your purchase.
(by using this direct link, Splitcoast gets a higher percentage cut than using the standard link from off the home page.

To the Canadianders
We're working on making this same arrangement possible through amazon.ca. So far it's been a bit of a problem signing up for the Canadian associates program, but we've got a note in to Amazon tech support and anticipate hearing back later today or tomorrow. We'll make an announcement and provide a link when all you crazy canucks are able to join in.

*UPDATE* We're now official members of the Amazon.ca referral program. If you're from Canada, use this link to make your purchases and have the referral credited to Splitcoaststampers:
http://tinyurl.com/y5qrdx
No, this doesn't look like an Amazon link. But the one they gave us is so long that we've used TinyURL, a service that makes long addresses more usable. Use or share this link and you'll be jumped right to Amazon.ca.

Posted by: daven on Nov 16, 06 | 4:46 am

Let's Get It Started

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