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LOL, it has absolutely nothing to do with that. I live like 40+ miles away from that and I use Amazon all the
time.... It has everything to do with the fact that, using conventional retail, for boring items (eg, stuff that isn't extremely special or expensive) that aren't time sensitive... is a horrendous waste of time.
Think of the transaction costs. Amazon sells a rice cooker I bought for like $28 + ma tax. That means its probably $29.75. Think of the alternative to that. I work 50+ hours a week. I'm not going out on a weeknight to a retail store at 8pm to buy that shit, that's just not f***ing happening. I might get to a grocery store once a week on a weeknight but I even hate doing that, because that's a total f***ing waste of time, too. So that means if I want the rice cooker I have to burn up a half an hour, to an hour of my time, on a weekend, to buy a $29 rice cooker. That's just f***ing stupid, like, on it's face- between the time, the gas, the higher probability of my car getting dinged up by the teeming retard masses at retail, catching a cold, disease from people hacking and yewing, or snotgobblers and toddlers leaving disease goo on everything, etc. Then on top of all that shit, by the time I get back to my car I've purchased that rice cooker for exactly the same as the amazon price, plus all the risk, and the costs of my wasted time, etc. It doesn't make any sense when I can press a button and the "thing" appears at my doorstep in 2 days. IMHO generic-market retail is mostly hell on earth.
-Mike
Not to mention using the affiliate link for comm2a gets them I think around 8% or your purchase as donation.
It is kind of unclear 100% how their affiliate purchases work as far as if you have to use the link to shop and add to cart or if just checking out with the link is enough. As well as there not being any verification that the purchases counted towards it, however I just use the shop.comm2a.org link for when I do any of my shopping and hope for the best.I have heard about that, how exactly does it work? 8% of what I order from Amazon is quite a tidy sum, lol.
It is kind of unclear 100% how their affiliate purchases work as far as if you have to use the link to shop and add to cart or if just checking out with the link is enough. As well as there not being any verification that the purchases counted towards it, however I just use the shop.comm2a.org link for when I do any of my shopping and hope for the best.
If you post the actual link I may just try it. Adding www. got me nowhere.