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

[zip]

This isn't some huge anti-gun conspiracy folks

Any pro-HCI issue is by definition an anti-gun issue. PERIOD

[dpwiener]

This has already been thoroughly investigated on at least a dozen other threads. A third-party web site, EduOrg.com, provides custom-looking affiliate sales web pages to Handgun Control Inc and other liberal organizations, as well as to conservative organizations (and any pro-gun group that signs up). If a computer is sold through one of those links, Dell pays a small percentage commission to EduOrg, which in turn splits it 50-50 with the organization that originated it. None of this in any way indicates Dell's political agreement or disagreement with the organization involved. And Dell is just one of over a hundred companies that have the same arrangement with EduOrg.

For more details, check out Section 4 of EduOrg.com's Terms & Conditions, which explains that it provides a virtual shopping mall for other organizations in three categories: Education Organizations, Politically Conservative Organizations, and Politically Liberal Organizations. (Obviously HCI listed itself under that third category.)

As an example, look at this site for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). Except for the computer-inserted name at the top, it's identical to the HCI site. If supporters of HCI go through the HCI link to buy a Dell computer (or any other product listed there), a portion (maybe 1/2% or 1%) of their money then goes to HCI. If supporters of the NRCC go through the NRCC link to buy a Dell computer (or any other product listed there), a portion (maybe 1/2% or 1%) of their money then goes to NRCC. Dell wouldn't even know who EduOrg was splitting the sales commission with.

[Free the USA]

Bump List

[PistolPaknMama]

kaboom!

[xm177e2]

I've had enough of these stupid boycott threads. Dell AND HCI both claim to have known nothing about "progressivemall.com" or whatever that place is. Would you just pull all of these boycott threads? It makes us look really bad, like reactionary idiots, to be starting boycotts any time someone sneezes and it sounds like "hci."

[xm177e2]

Dude, there's nothing wrong with Dell.

[omenseer]

There is a problem when a US citizen is discriminated against. A gun shop owner ordered a computer from Dell. When the delivery date came, the computer was not sent. Their reason is that they feared it might be used for illegal purposes. If the customer is in compliance of Federal Regulations and went through back ground checks, they should have not denied products and services. This is not right. This is not saying anything about their products, just business practices.

[xm177e2]

And do you know what eventually happened? Dell offered him a free computer.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Readers Digest??........GOOD GOD!!

[Cyber Liberty]

Why are you tracking this bullshit back in here? This was done to DEATH last week....

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

"Why are you tracking this bullshit back in here? This was done to DEATH last week...."

Some of us didn't see this list last week, if it is all the same to you....sheeesh! Change threads and be happy!!

[zip]

Here on FR we like our anti-gun conspiracies, and any information to the contrary must be planted by communist traitors

Now THAT'S great. ROFLMAO

[zip]

I had not seen it and am VERY PLEASED that it was posted again. Also was not aware of the ins and outs of the system. I appreciate cyber liberty and others that explained it.

If you've seen these before, just move on, nothing to see. etc etc.

[technochick99]

SAS has an affiliate deal with Omaha Steaks as well. These companies have neutral policies, for the most part, and are giving $$ based on referrals. Same as Amazon.

They're in business tomake money, and probably don't care about the politics of whom they are involved with...

[technochick99]

And much of this was explained and discounted already. It's similar to bringing up an urban legend...

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

If companies are paying referral fees to an anti gun org, they are WHORES. Coke dealers will tell you they are free enterprisers just filling a void.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"If supporters of HCI go through the HCI link to buy a Dell computer (or any other product listed there), a portion (maybe 1/2% or 1%) of their money then goes to HCI."

Here's the "math." No manufacturer or merchant can pay affiliates a commission greater than the price of the item sold; in reality, they must pay much less in order to pay all their other expenses and still break even. Some with low overhead can pay in the 5%-15% range - with the higher commission only to affiliates doing a substantial part of the sales work in some way.

Add to that another part of why HCI isn't making much at all out of any "affiliate program" - the design of its site itself. Unlike a dissident newspaper with daily article turnover or addition, there really is nothing to entice readers to keep coming back frequently to the HCI (or MMM) sites.

[ilgipper]

They just set up affiliate programs through an affiliate network. My company does the same thing. There is no implied support of the HCI organization. All you do is place links on the site, and make a percentage from any clicktrhoughs to access sites like Gap, Expedia, and more.

Maybe we should setup our own Freeper Shopping Network, so Freerepublic gets a few bucks from anything we buy online. It would all go towards the quarterly fundraiser.

[Lancey Howard]

Books:
I saw Borders, but I did not see Barnes and Noble.
I will be making no more trips to Borders.