"sf" wrote in message ...

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:19:36 -0600, "MaryL"
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> "sf" wrote in message ...
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> On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:26:03 -0600, "MaryL"
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> > "sf" wrote in message
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> > On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:45:41 -0500, Cheryl >
> > wrote:
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> > > On 2/11/2015 10:35 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
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> > > > I'm a Prime member and I have been shopping at Amazon Smile for a
> > > > while now. I love that every purchase I make sends a bit of money
> > > > to
> > > > the charity I have designated.
> > >
> > > Same here. My charity must get quite a bit from me, but I've never
> > > been
> > > able to find out what percentage of your purchase goes to them. My
> > > charity is a local cat rescue, they are also my charity of choice
> > > through payroll at work.
> >
> > If you read the link, it tells you:
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> > The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from
> > your eligible AmazonSmile purchases.
> >
> > ~~~~~
> >
> > Yes, it clearly shows that 0.5% will be donated, but there is no way to
> > learn at the end of the year (or quarter) how much the total is. I
> > spend
> > far too much on Amazon, but I do not keep a running tally that would
> > enable
> > me to know how much my charity receives. I do the same thing with
> > Kroger,
> > but they do provide a way to learn the total. This would not change my
> > spending habits, but it would just be nice to know how much my charity
> > receives from AmazonSmile.
> >
> I don't care. I'm not writing it off, so I don't need to keep track.
> If I really wanted to, I could go to the past purchases and figure it
> out - but I'm not interested in doing that.
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> Oh, no, I don't write it off. In fact, I don't think the individual could
> legally do that--it's Amazon that can probably get a tax write-off. But
> it
> would be interesting to see just how much we are able to help.
>
Please explain why you think you can't figure it out yourself?

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Because I make a great many purchases from Amazon, and I do not keep a
running tally. If it were important enough, I could go through the entire
list at the end of a year and multiply by 0.05%, but it really isn't that
important. It would simply be "nice" if Amazon released these figures at
the end of the year (as Kroger does), but it certainly is not something that
I am going to stress over.

MaryL