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Re:Amazon Closing AmazonSmile by iso1631 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:21AM (#34437963)
Amazon in my country has an image problem. Sure people use it, but people hate it for "killing the high street" and other such nonsense.

Facebook adverts picking random local charities and showing how much they've raised is far better, run them on amazon's front page too.

The local hospice I choose has raised £3k via amazon smile. That's far better PR than them giving £1m novelty cheques to some remote city based charity.

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Re:Amazon Closing AmazonSmile by TheCraiggers on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:06PM (#34443454)
>That's far better PR than them giving £1m novelty cheques to some remote city based charity.

How is it better PR if hardly anybody knows about it?

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Re:Amazon Closing AmazonSmile by iso1631 on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:57AM (#34451371)
Amazon runs a news story in local paper about how smile is benefitting $list_of_local_charities

The email they sent to me was they are going to take the money from my local charity and instead give it to ex Prime Minister Gordon Brown

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