Reminder: Click through for Angie and YLF!

catgirl

Not sure if new members know that if you are buying from Angie's partner retail stores, you can click through from this site and help YLF get a few pennies to keep Angie in our lives! Maybe the more of that, the less noisy ads!

12 years ago

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Latest reply was from Greg

lyn*

(website)

Veteran

I read that as "help YLF get a few pennies and help Angie save lives!"

12 years ago

catgirl

Veteran

That too.

12 years ago

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

*touched*

Thanks, Una.

You crack me up, Lyn.

12 years ago

Suz

(website)

Veteran

Angie, I actually have a question about that. I have always wondered if this works for Canadians, too. For instance, if I go to the J Crew or the BR sites from here...does it work for you? I always try to do that when I order from these sites, but I'm never sure if it really does anything.

I wish I could be making regular Nordstrom's orders... alas, not yet!

12 years ago

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

Thanks, Suz. That's a thoughtful question. Absolutely. If you click through to any of our affiliate sites from anywhere in the world from the YLF site - we get a very small commission. If you click straight to BR or Amazon or Zappos or Nordies for example - thereby bypassing YLF - we get nothing.

12 years ago

Eliza

Veteran

I appreciate the head's up on this. Somehow I missed it. But not surprising since I only found off topic threads today. I am blaming it on my iPad mini. Thanks!

12 years ago

Suz

(website)

Veteran

Okay, then. I will try to be even more assiduous with this! YLF first FTW!!!!

And, just to clarify...that's clicking through from the store (finds) OR from the home page or other parts of the site?

I have ad blocking so I don't see ads any more on forum pages but try to make a point of clicking through from the YLF store and then navigating to wherever I want to be on the vendor's site. So, for example, if I know I want to buy from BR, I'll go to the store, navigate to a BR recommended item (even if that's not the thing I want to buy) and then click on to the thing I do want to buy...hoping all the while that this is working for you!

Anyway -- if this does work, I just thought I would let others who may have ad blocking know that it's my system.

12 years ago

Angie

(website)

Fashion Stylist

Suz, you are a gem. Clicking the retailers link from anywhere on this site will secure the YLF cookie (which means we get the commission). Be it from a blog post, forum post, from the home page, from the finds section - you get the picture. Heading to stores to purchase means we do not get commission. The SA gets that commission

Eliza, you are cute!

12 years ago

Caro in Oz

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I wondered about this too. I think I may have messed up. I did click through to buy my SE snakeskin booties but decided the duties were too much. Then I received an email from Nordstroms saying they were on sale so I went to the Nordstroms site from that email. Hope I didn't bypass YLF.

12 years ago

Suz

(website)

Veteran

Great! Really glad to know it helps in a small way and will try to ensure I do it always. It is quite easy, really, as long as one keeps it in mind.

12 years ago

Ariadne

Veteran

Suz, if you go to BR via YLF, do you get redirected to the Canadian site and then buy from them? Angie, if that happens and we buy from the Canadian site, do you still get a commission?

12 years ago

Diana

Veteran

Thanks for the reminder.

Quick question for Angie (or maybe Greg): Is there a direct YLF affiliate link for stores like Nordstrom? (For example, if I wanted to add a bookmark in my browser).

ETA: I think I may have found it. On the finds page, in the "partners" list on the right sidebar, if I take those links and make bookmarks, will YLF get credit for things purchased through those bookmarks?

12 years ago

Laura

(website)

Veteran

Well. YLF and Angie have actually been lifesavers in many ways so the misreading is not a total misreading

I always click through the store and heaven knows I have plenty of items purchased that way! It's a small way to support YLF for all the ways it's given to us!

12 years ago

Elizabeth P

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I had NO idea, darn! Cuz I would have saved about a dozen lives by now, I'm sure...

How do you "click through from this site? Right now I see an LL Bean ad, so that's easy. But what if I wanted to go to BR? When I've gone through the "finds" stuff, it takes me to the US site.

12 years ago

Suz

(website)

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Ariadne, that's what I was wondering about. Maybe we should flag this for Greg. I will send him a PM.

I get redirected to the Canadian site, too.

Elizabeth, there are a bunch of ways to "click through. "

1. On the home page there is a list of affiliates on the right hand side of the page if you scroll down. Click from there if you wish.

2. On the "Finds" section you will see recommended items from specific stores. Even if you don't want to buy that item, you can go to the store from there.

3. From the blog recommendations (on roundup posts, etc.) you can click through, or from images on the blog where Angie's discussing a particular item.

4. From the forum -- if someone links to an affiliate site, saying "I bought this xyz here" and you click from their post to buy the same item.

12 years ago

texstyle

(website)

Veteran

With the use of cookies, etc. it would be great if the stores could somehow "mark" us as YLF users. Like Nordies, if it weren't for YLF, I may not have begun ordering from them. At the same time, it's often things *not* on YLF that I end up buying from Nordies. That's just one example of course.

I would like for YLF to get credit from any item I buy from Nordies (personally).

12 years ago

Transcona Shannon

Veteran

Great reminder Una and Suz, I was wondering the same thing.

12 years ago

Elizabeth P

Veteran

Thanks Suz!

12 years ago

Greg

Administrator

Ariadne, I actually don't know the answer to that. I think they probably do credit us even though you were redirected.

We really appreciate that people are giving some thought to this. That said, please don't go out of your way or worry overly much about what generates a commission and what doesn't. More than anything else we want people to enjoy coming here.

Of course, questions about how things work are always welcome.

BTW, if you are interested in reading a little more detail on how we make money at YLF, there is a page for that.

12 years ago

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