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About TVWB & Amazon.com |
Originally
posted: 05/28/2008
Last updated:
03/30/2010 |
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What Is The
Relationship Between TVWB & Amazon?TVWB is a member of the Amazon.com Associates Program.
Using the Amazon links on TVWB for all your Amazon shopping generates a referral fee that helps offset the cost of
publishing TVWB.
Do All Items I Purchase At
Amazon Help Support TVWB Or Only Certain Items?
Everything
you purchase at Amazon.com—books, movies, music, games, computers,
electronics, home & garden, groceries, toys, apparel, tools, and even
gift certificates—helps support TVWB.
How Can I Make Sure
TVWB Gets Credit For My Amazon Purchases?
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To begin your
shopping, you must enter Amazon.com using one of the Amazon links
on these pages:
- All items added to your shopping cart during the next 24 hours
will be credited to TVWB.
- If you leave Amazon without completing the checkout process,
make sure to re-enter Amazon using one of the links on TVWB.
This starts a new 24-hour clock and ensures that any additional
items added to your shopping cart will be credited to TVWB.
- You must complete the Amazon checkout process
before your shopping cart expires—usually within 90 days. TVWB gets the referral fee for your purchase only after you go
through the checkout process, accept delivery of your items, and
pay Amazon in full.
What Common Mistakes
Prevent TVWB From Getting Credit?
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Mistake #1: You
add items to your Amazon shopping cart first, then go to back to
TVWB and click one of the Amazon links. TVWB gets no credit for your
purchases in this case. You must always enter Amazon.com using one of
the links on TVWB before adding items to your shopping cart.
Solution: Delete the items from your shopping cart, go to
TVWB and click one of the Amazon links, then add the items back to
your shopping cart. TVWB now gets credit for your purchases.
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Mistake #2: On Monday you use the Amazon link on TVWB to add
items to your shopping cart, but you leave Amazon without checking
out. You return on Friday by typing "www.amazon.com" and add more
items to your shopping cart. TVWB only gets credit for the items
on Monday, not the items on Friday.
Solution: Always make sure to re-enter Amazon using one of the links on TVWB
before adding items to your shopping cart.
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Mistake #3: On Tuesday you use the Amazon link on TVWB to add
items to your shopping cart, but you leave Amazon without checking
out. You return on Saturday using an Amazon link from a barbecue
website other than TVWB and add more items to your shopping cart.
TVWB only gets credit for the items on Tuesday, not the items on
Saturday.
Solution: Always make sure to re-enter Amazon using one of the links on TVWB
before adding items to your shopping cart.
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Mistake #4: Someone pastes an Amazon link from their browser
into a bulletin board post. You click the link and add items to your
shopping cart. TVWB does not get credit for your purchase because
the Amazon link was not coded to give credit to TVWB.
Amazon
links on TVWB always contain the
phrase thevirtualweberb or tvwb-20 within the URL. If you don't see
one of these phrases in the link you're about to click—especially in
posts on the bulletin board—TVWB
will not get credit for your purchase.
Solution: Click one of the Amazon links on TVWB first, then
click the link in the bulletin board post and add items to your
shopping cart. TVWB gets credit for all items added to your cart
during the next 24 hours.
Once I've Entered Amazon, How
Can I Tell If TVWB Is Getting Credit?
Unfortunately, you
can't. Once you
enter Amazon.com using a link on TVWB, the phrases thevirtualweberb or tvwb-20
begin to disappear from the the URLs you see on various Amazon pages.
Rest assured that as long as you enter Amazon using a link on TVWB, the
Web site is getting credit for all purchases.
Can I Save TVWB's Amazon Link
To My Browser Favorites?
Great idea! Just start
all your Amazon.com shopping by clicking this link in your browser
favorites and TVWB will get credit for all your purchases, every time!
If using the Internet Explorer
browser, click this link
to add TVWB's Amazon.com link to your Favorites
list:
Add TVWB's Amazon.com link to IE Favorites
Otherwise, right-click this link and click "Add to
Favorites" or "Bookmark this link":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/thevirtualweberb
Can TVWB See What I'm
Purchasing?
No. TVWB can see
what items are being purchased, but not who is purchasing
them. Only Amazon.com knows your identity.
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