Help The WW&F Whilst You Shop

[Ed Lecuyer]

With the Christmas shopping season here, I'd like to remind everyone about an easy way to help the WW&F.

If you do ANY online shopping, please use one of the following "portals":
http://smile.amazon.com
http://www.igive.com
http://www.goodshop.com
http://givingassistant.org

Basically you create a free account at any of these sites (or use your existing Amazon account at smile.amazon.com.) Specify the Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum as your charity of choice. Then click on the links on those sites to launch into your favorite online stores. Amazon, Staples, AbeBooks and thousands of other sites are available. Not all shopping sites are listed on all three of the portals, so check all of them out before giving up.

Since we've started doing this a few years ago, we've raised thousands of dollars for the WW&F - and that has been with just a few participants.

Its free, easy, and there is absolutely no catch. Some sites offer "search bars" to make it easier. I've never tried them and I don't generally recommend random browser plug ins. All you have to do is launch your favorite shopping site from one of these portals, and the WW&F gets a commission check based on your purchase. A couple of bucks here and there don't seem like a lot - but they really have added up over time.

Thankful for all my friends at the WW&F,

-Ed

[Ed Lecuyer]

I updated the first post in the thread (and the "sticky" topic) to reflect the change from Amazon participating with iGive, to starting their own charity portal, smile.amazon.com

Almost every e-commerce site is linked from iGive and/or Goodshop, and Amazon is on their own. It's really super-duper easy for the WW&F to make "free" money and it only "costs" you a few extra clicks.

And, coming very soon, there will be a new way to help the WW&F announced. Stay tuned...