Thanks! You paid $429.99 for that Champion Power Equipment product via our Amazon Associates links, which provided me a $30.10 commission. Shopping at Amazon is a win-win, with low prices for readers and blog revenue to help keep things cranking here. Instapundit occasionally reminds his readers how this works:
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That pretty much sums it up, but from time to time I like to provide more specific examples — from the monthly sales report — of how this works: A reader bought a $179 Kindle, and I got a $12.53 commission. Another reader bought Adobe Premiere video-editing software for $84.99, and I got a $6.30 commission.
For more than a year, I’ve been trying to get some reader to buy a $20,000 diamond ring via Amazon, because if I could just sell one . . .
Well, no takers on that deal yet, but it’s coming up on the holidays, and so I’ll encourage you to shop our Amazon links for great bargains.
The downside, unfortunately, being that they’re probably someone in the northeast who’s in their third week of having no electricity due to Sandy. Thanks, FEMA and JCP&L.
(I had to travel 2 hours one way to buy my generator at Sears; by the time I got home the power had been restored, but damned if I’m going to be put in that position again.)
I bought a lot last year and credited it all to you, I did it through your Amazon links, never know if you get credit.
When I buy from Amazon, I always buy through you. Just bought about $150 bucks worth of stuff, so you should see about $10 or so coming your way soon.
Remember to run the generator on a regular basis, including putting a load on it, like a space heater, to make sure it works. Just sitting there, unused, is a bad thing. I’ve seen big generators go ka-blooie under similar circumstances.
Also……pick up some fuel additives, say, Star Tron. That damned ethanol in gasoline is bad for generators. And maybe a fuel stabilizer (like Sta Bil) so that any stored fuel doesn’t de-stabilize (gasoline has a definite shelf life, Hollywood apocalyptic movies to the contrary).
For the same reason, run the generator dry. It makes starting the engine a pain, but better than having varnish in the fuel lines.
Better than a portable generator is a whole house generator which runs off of natural gas (or propane). Originally we had a portable but we hated having to buy and store gasoline. My son had a hard time finding gasoline when they lost power for 6 days during Sandy.
Agreed. But that takes a whole another level of planning and investment. I have a tri-fuel generator myself, just no way to get natural gas or propane to it.
Couldn’t you at least hook up a propane tank for a gas grill to it? I’m looking for one of those because storing half a dozen propane tanks in the garage would be a lot safer than half a dozen 5 gallon cans of gasoline.
Most tri-fuel generators require a minimum pressure to operate properly. Mine takes at least a 100 pound LPG tank. I’ll probably pick up one up, if I can work around the logistics of storing that much LPG safely.
Man, I feel really bad !!!
Bought $125 of Amazon stuff the other day and did not go through a page link !!
Next time I will, I promise !!!