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DVD   Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood
DVD   Watchmen: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
MP3 Downloads   Elephunk
MP3 Downloads   A Magical Celtic Christmas
MP3 Downloads   Tron: Legacy (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) [+digital booklet]
MP3 Downloads   A Skaggs Family Christmas
MP3 Downloads   And Winter Came
MP3 Downloads   Christmas Album
MP3 Downloads   Dig That Crazy Christmas
MP3 Downloads   Sigh No More
MP3 Downloads   The Cars
MP3 Downloads   The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies)
MP3 Downloads   Bluegrass Christmas
Toys & Games   The Settlers of Catan 5-6 Player Extension
Toys & Games   Dominion Big Box 2010 Amazon Exclusive
Two gifts and a crapton of music and games for me. :ninja:
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According to this list, OO is populated by a bunch of geeky parents. That actually seems pretty accurate.
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That list is great and has to be turned into a monthly feature. :)
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Tscott wrote: Is there something wrong with using this link when bookmarked?
Affiliate tracking is generally accomplished through cookies. I don't know the relationship between those and bookmarked links, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's some disconnect between a cookie and a bookmark. The vendor pays for direct referrals.

Although I don't entirely understand how they measure it, as a retailer I know that vendors count referrals that arrive directly from the referring site.

Or maybe that's only true of users who block cookies. Those people screw up everything.
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I changed my bookmark to whatever the current link is. I hope it'll start counting my stuff better now. Before, I think the above link immediately forwarded me to a url that ended with something like ref=null, and that's the page that was bookmarked, which could be why some of my items weren't showing up.

The link I'm currently using takes me to the video games page and has "octopoverl" in the url, so I think stuff I order through my bookmark should work now. Should be a Logitech USB Mic ordered Christmas day, and a Logitech mouse ordered today on your list if my bookmarks are working.
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Blackhawk wrote:I need to remember this myself. I generally go to Amazon through the Firefox search utility, so I never actually use a link.
In an effort to support OO, I am giving up my search utility and just using the OO link, dragged to my bookmark bar, to go to Amazon. The only problem is that every time I click it, it takes me to the video game section, and I have to manually change it back to 'All Departments' before I can search, which is a pain. Why is this when so much of what's on the lists above includes books, DVDs, toys, mp3s, and so on?
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Blackhawk wrote:
Blackhawk wrote:I need to remember this myself. I generally go to Amazon through the Firefox search utility, so I never actually use a link.
In an effort to support OO, I am giving up my search utility and just using the OO link, dragged to my bookmark bar, to go to Amazon. The only problem is that every time I click it, it takes me to the video game section, and I have to manually change it back to 'All Departments' before I can search, which is a pain. Why is this when so much of what's on the lists above includes books, DVDs, toys, mp3s, and so on?
I use http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=octopoverl-20" target="_blank and it goes to the main page, with my purchase showing up this Christmas season.
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Just curious - is our addiction still paying the rent?
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stessier wrote:Just curious - is our addiction still paying the rent?
It more or less covers it, my wife doesn't glare at me too much.

Q1 2011 - $220 earned (server is $240 for that period)
Q2 2011 - $276 earned (Same cost as above)
Quarter to date - $84
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And tha't with me forgetting half the time. :doh:

BTW, do you know if subscriptions count?
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Yeah, I always forget myself. Although I'm shopping for a new TV, so I'll do all I can to remember that one. :)
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FishPants wrote:
stessier wrote:Just curious - is our addiction still paying the rent?
It more or less covers it, my wife doesn't glare at me too much.

Q1 2011 - $220 earned (server is $240 for that period)
Q2 2011 - $276 earned (Same cost as above)
Quarter to date - $84
If you ever get into a position where cash is an issue, send me a pm and I'll help if I can. Especially if it's an emergency or something. Otherwise soak these other suckers during a fund raiser. :D
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