Lets say you go to Amazon directly and put some items in your cart.  Then you remember, I want the commission on these items to go to charity.  So you browse to giveness.com select a charity and go to Amazon.  The items are still in your cart from before, but this is the problem!  Because you went directly to Amazon and put the items in your cart they will NOT earn commission.  You must make sure that you add all the items to the cart after you have browsed to Amazon by ...

Several people have mentioned that it has been a while since my last blog, well you asked for it...I saw an article on digg.com about this crazy item on Amazon.  It is a replica of a vehicle from Star Wars.  It goes for $20k (that would generate some sweet commission for some charity wouldn't it).  I tried to recomend it on Giveness but couldn't.  Some third party products are tricky to find through Giveness.

Sitting on my right should is little angel Jeremy saying "You should do something good for somebody, why don't you make a donation to charity."  Well making a donation to charity would make me feel good, but that doesn't seem like enough motivation to make me go through with it.  I could scratch an itch and I would feel good too.  Then the little devil Jeremy sitting on my left shoulder says "Hey the new Chimaira cd just came out yesterday."  Oooh, that would make me feel good, and buying a cd ...