Want to know who contributes to Handgun Control, inc?

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[glockmeister40]

Want to know of some merchants that contribute to Handgun Control, Inc? Please check out the following website:

http://www.progressivefunds.com/hci/index.html

This is the Handgun Control, Inc. Online Shopping Mall

The page begins with the banner:

"raise money for handgun control, inc. every time you shop online"

Handgun Control, Inc. Online Shopping Mall

"Be sure to bookmark the Handgun Control, Inc. Online Shopping Mall as one of your favorites. Connections to commercial websites must be made immediately from this links page for Handgun Control, Inc. to receive its share!"

Beauty and Fashion

Boutique Beverly Hills

eve.com

First Jewelry

Frangrance Net

iBeauty

ingredients.com

Jewelry Spotlight

Jewelry Web

LaParfumerie

Merlite Jewelry

Perfumania

Smallflower

Yves Rocher

Books

1bookstreet.com

1800Gifts

AllBooks4Less.com

Borders

Britannica Store

Business Book Review

hooloo.com

Reader's Digest

Seek Books

VarsityBooks.com

Clothing

All Together Leather

Bugle Boy

Clark's Register

dELiA*s

Designer Outlet

Esprit

Frenchtoast.com

Gordmans

Jos. A. Bank

Last Best Place

Moret Online

Paul Fredrick

Shades.com

Sharper Image

Simply Dresses

Underneath

weeGEAR

Computers & Accessories

Crucial Technology

Dell

Fragcity

Got It Direct

Hardware Street

McAfee

OmniPlayer

Outpost.com

Entertainment

CD Universe

CheckOut.com

DVD Express

Express.com

Hifi.com

Humongous Entertainment

K-Tel 70's Compilations

K-Tel 80's Compilations

K-Tel Boxsets

MusicYo - Musical Instruments

Next Planet Over

Sony Music Direct

Food

Ackerman & Cooke

A.G. Ferrari Foods

Cajun Grocer

Coffee Direct

Cooking.com

eDelights

Fulton Street

Great Coffee

Hickory Farms

Le Village

Omaha Steaks

Palm Beach School of Cooking

Sweet Lobster Company

Wire A Cake

Gifts

1-800-Flowers

Arizona Gifts & Souvenirs

AshLane Gift Baskets

Bellamondo

Brainstorms

Flooz.com

Florist.com

Flower.com

Flower Farm

FTD

Gift Paks

Go Shopping

GreatFlowers

Hallmark

Spencer Gifts

TheGift.com

Via Bonita Gifts

Health & Fitness

All Herb

Discount Nutrition

eDiets

eNutrition

Mass Quantities

More.com

Natural Body Bar

Optical Site

SelfCare

SmoothEase

VitalCast

Hobbies

American Historic Society

Bead Room

Cigar.com

eHobbies

Franklin Mint

Hollywood.com, Inc.

Home Craft Show

International Collectors Society

Sessions

Swiss Army Depot

WWF ShopZone

Home & Garden

Art.com Virtual Store

Burpee Seeds & Plants

Brylane Home

Decals By Csuray

Discover Nature

Furniture Online

Gardener's Supply Company

Hardware.com

Heather Ann

Illuminations

Landscape USA

Martha Stewart Living

Petopia

PetQuarters

Ross-Simons

Terry's Village Catalog

Wicks End

Money & Finance

American Express® Gold Corporate Card for Small Business

Office Supplies

New York First

OfficeFurniture.com

OfficeMax

Shop One to One

Total Office Supply

Sporting Goods

Angler's

beOutdoors.com

big deal snow/skate/wakeboards

Custom Golf

Fusion

Gear.com

GigaGolf

Golf Warehouse

International Golf Outlet

MVP.com

Shop CBS SportsLine

Snowtraders

TSI Soccer

Toys & Games

GamePro Superstore

KB Kids

Oriental Trading Company

SmarterKids.com

Miscellaneous

800-Trekker.com

"As Seen On TV" products

Auto Accessory

Bulldog Store

City Stuff

Disney Store

ePrintPress

GaZoom

Green Marketplace

Hoopla, Inc.

iBaby

Light Impressions

Sunbelt Direct

Tendollars.com

Warner Bros. Store

Widerview Village

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[lelio]

This doesn't necessarily imply that these companies support HCI. progressivefunds.com looks more like a clearinghouse for referrals, where if you click on one of their links the company you bought something from will pay progressive, which will then pay the non-profit that listed the company.
A company might not even know who ProgressiveFunds is paying out to, but they could peruse the site to see who they want to be associated with.

[B4Ranch]

If you believe in America and the Constitution, especially the 2nd Amendment, now is the time to show some prejudice and not buy a damn thing from any of these companies!

Join the fight. Join VetsCor !!

[bandleader]

Dear Fellow Freepers,we can play the same"Game"those bums on Left play!I'm making a list of all of these donors and am boycotting(as Mr.Cheney once said)"Big-Time"!!!!!!!!!

[glockmeister40]

At the top of the web page it states: "raise money for handgun control, inc. every time you shop online". I believe this means that when you buy from a listed merchant, they give some money to HCI. To me, giving money implies support.

[Holden Magroin]

If I ever have a son, all I can say to him is, "Dude, your NOT buying a Dell!"

[Grampa Dave]

gm thanks for this post!

GR for your info and your bump list!

I know that some conservatives get their panties in a bind when we talk about boycotting companies like these anti gun companies. However, withholding our $'s from these companies and advocating a boycott is our first amendment right!

Most businesses are still in a recession. Pi$$ing off millions of gun owners is a very stupid and maybe terminal business tactic.

Look at the quick reversal Jeep/Chrysler did re their PETA pro Deer and anti hunter ads in January.

A quick scan didn't indicate any companies that we do business with.

[jabonz]

With the exception of sharperimage, I never bought one thing from any of these companies; nor will I ever. Bump & Bang

[glc1173@aol.com]

There is no way that purchases of "ordinary" merchandise through some "affiliate program" is funding HCI.

First, HCI just doesn't have many grassroots members - a fact openly admitted to by its sycophants at the Washington ComPost.

Second, HCI's Web site just doesn't get that much traffic; it is rated 107,854th of all Web sites! The nominally-separate "Million" Mom March Web site is even far-lower-ranked.

It is difficult to make significant profit on "affiliate programs" - as many of us who are webmasters know! Maybe HCI gets enough from its "affiliate program" to pay its ISP - but it sure couldn't make enough to pay even one full-time staffer on a site ranked so low.

Also, look at what HCI's "affiliate program" sells - computers, dresses; this is all the kind of merchandise most people either prefer to "test-drive" at the local mall or just order directly from the merchant itself. I doubt if HCI makes enough to pay its ISP out of this.

HCI recently begged its few actual members for cash, remember - saying that it was in a financial crunch? My gut feeling is that HCI is financed by grants from leftist foundations; HCI has said it has received major gifts from individual leftists within the past year (one a bequest from a well-known newspaper cartoonist).

Scandals of antigun activists and politicians!

[real saxophonist]

Bugle Boy's been out of business for a couple of years.

[JerseyHighlander]

Badjoe, just pinging you because you're on top of the fundraising issues. Mr. Robinson, put this your way because I don't know who takes care of legal questions on an issue like this. I have no doubt that this idea has come up before.

Is it possible for FR to sign up with one of these referral schemes? Would it make some easy money for the site.

http://www.progressivefunds.com is probably not the best place to go for the referral service. Considering that FR's resident boycotters, I mean it kindly, are always boycotting, there must also be a large number of Freepers and Lurkers who are not happy about the referrals, and would love to help FR when doing their regular webcommerce, use these websites for purchases, and would utilize a FR referral service.

[JerseyHighlander]

In your opinion, does FR have enough through traffic to warrant signing up for a referral service?

[proudofthesouth]

I wish I had known about Dell contributing to them before I bought a computer from them last year.

[What Is Ain't]

It might be interesting to write to each of these companies and ask if this listing represents an accurate view of their attitude toward their gun-owning customers.

[supercat]

//I wish I had known about Dell contributing to them before I bought a computer from them last year.// I've seen no evidence that Dell contributes anything to HCI other than purchases explicitly made through a referral-link service. If you wanted to have a portion of Dell purchases go to FR, it would likely be possible to have FR set up the same sort of referral thing. On the other hand, I suspect that the total amount of money FR would receive as a result of such a thing would be under $1000 [not that I expect HCI to be doing any better].

Actually, I would suspect FR could do much better than HCI, especially if they were to promote the referral link program. On the other hand, that could weaken FR's case that it is a purely user-supported non-commercial site.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"In your opinion, does FR have enough through traffic to warrant signing up for a referral service?"

I don't know FR's traffic rating (I get mine from Alexa).

What I do know is that the "personality" of the Web site would matter a lot. IOW, is it the kind of site with lots of room in the "margins" on each page for clickable picture ads? Personally running a Web-based dissident newspaper (Alamance Independent), I can tell you another problem FR would have. The only real opportunity for a page-long list of clickable links on FR would be as a "greeting" page for Freepers every time we check in - rather than using every page to sell; that is unless the FR site were radically reconfigured.