Council-of-Elrond Affiliate Accounts:

All of the banner ads you see on the Council-of-Elrond are affiliate accounts. No money is made by clicking on the banners. Money is made by making purchases from the companies represented on the banner ads. Affiliate accounts include Allposters.com, Tolkientown.com and Amazon.com. Percentages made from sales are as follows:

Allposters.com

The C-o-E earns 25% on all purchases. In order for the C-o-E to get credit for the sale, you need to click on one of the Allposters.com banner ads, or go directly to the Council-of-Elrond.com Allposters.com Affilate Poster Store.


Tolkientown.com

In order for the C-o-E to get credit for the sale, you need to click on one of the Tolkientown banner ads, or go directly to the front page of Tolkientown.com using this link and browse to find what you want. The C-o-E affiliate information is embedded in the code. Percentages for Tolkientown are as follows:
17% Posters
16% US Edition Books and Audio Books
12% General Collectibles
11% Rings and other Jewelry
11% Maps, Wallscrolls, Bookmarks, Postcards
11% UK Edition Books and Audio Books
8% Toys and Games
5% Videos, DVDs, CDs

Amazon.com

The Amazon affiliate account include purchases made at Amazon.com, the ToysRUs.com store , the BabiesRUs store, the Target store, the Marshall Fields store, and the Office Depot stores located at Amazon.com. Percentages are as follows:

5% of the sale price for most Amazon.com Product purchases, and 2.5% of the sale price for most Marketplace Product purchases. An individual item link to an item sold by Amazon.com will earn an incremental premium of 2.5% in addition to the base referral rate if the purchase is a direct sale. A direct sale occurs when the customer adds the individually linked item to his or her shopping cart upon clicking through to Amazon.com. Additional qualifying Amazon.com items purchased during the same shopping session earn a referral fee of 5% (2.5% for qualifying Marketplace items). Please note that all items other than books, music, DVDs, Consumer Electronics (until Q2 2004), New Categories (Apparel, Sporting Goods, Gourmet Food and Jewelry) and videos are subject to a $10.00 maximum referral fee per item sold. They do not pay referral fees for gift certificates, Auctions items, zShops items, and Hotwire.com items.

In order to receive the incremental premium in addition to the base rate, you should find the product in one of the Amazon stores:

Amazon.com -- United States

Amazon.co.uk -- United Kingdom

Amazon.ca -- Canada

Get the ISBN/ASIN number for the product. What's an ASIN/ISBN? "ASIN" stands for "Amazon.com Standard Identification Number." Every item in the catalog (books, music, DVD, VHS, toys, consumer electronics, etc.) has a unique ASIN. The ASIN is the same as the ISBN for books. You can find an item's ASIN on its detail page. You can also find it in the page URL. When you have the number, come back here and enter the ISBN/ASIN in the appropriate box below, and click on submit. You will then be taken back to that item's page at Amazon where you can make your purchase.

ISBN/ASIN -- United States

ISBN/ASIN -- United Kingdom

ISBN/ASIN -- Canada

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