MyCatholicSource.com - 'Quick Help' Page: Supporting Us Via Purchases On Amazon

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Regarding the 'bland' Amazon link, we settled on that page for use as a general starting point because we found it less likely than some other pages on Amazon.com to contain offensive/inappropriate images. For example, links to clothes may include images of immodestly dressed people. As I recall, when we first started linking to that page it didn't include any images at all (which we liked). In any event, when someone visits that page using our link and purchases an eligible product, we should receive a portion of all applicable sales. Although it's not the most glamorous page to land on, we found it to provide the best balance between showing something (hopefully) not offensive vs. offering a wide variety of items to choose from. And again, we do earn 'referral fees' from any applicable items that people purchase after clicking on the link (although this is limited to a certain amount of time – perhaps 30 minutes or so, but I'm not entirely certain of the time period).

Regarding not being found in Amazon's list of charities, this is correct. According to their site, I see that an 'eligible organization' is one that is "qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Code", which we are not. Also, to be eligible, Amazon's terms do not permit organizations that they deem "engage in, support, encourage, or promote" what they consider "intolerance, discrimination or discriminatory practices based on...religion,...sexual orientation...", so, unfortunately, they may have issues with tradition minded-Catholic sites such as ours that condemn false religions/'churches' and maintain the immorality of certain acts (even though such teachings can be found in Scripture, and even though Amazon sells bibles).

Help this helps. Thank you so much for your support!

Update: We changed the above referenced link to instead go to the Amazon.com home page in February, 2022. While we prefer the previous link for reasons indicated above, Amazon recently began redirecting the link to their home page (WITHOUT our associate's tag), and the old page seems to be currently unavailable. We therefore changed our link to go directly to Amazon's home page (WITH our associate's tag). We apologize if this causes any issues.

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