I've also signed up, and have probably bought a few hundred dollars worth of stuff since then. .5% is not huge, and is probably more helpful to Amazon (via publicity) than to AMSAT, but it can't hurt.
I would add that usually I go directly to the Smile page with my link, but on the rare occasion when I might follow another link or even type in amazon.com, Amazon reminds me that I am signed up for Smile. Not bad.
Burns
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Bryan Herbert ke6zgp@gmail.com wrote:
I also signed up and have bought a few things but it is my understanding only 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products goes to AMSAT. So if you buy a DVD worth $19.99 and it's eligible for AmazonSmile, roughly $0.10 of that $19.99 will go to AMSAT but I think Amazon waits until something like $100 is collected before sending any money to AMSAT.
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