For reference, this is the content requesting donations at the bottom of every one of Erin's text reviews (I admit, I hate youtube- watching linear content is so cassette tapes, haha!), and below that the donations page from ASR, which you link to with a single sentence at the end of most newer reviews. For the record I am perfectly fine with both of these requests and happy to contribute knowing how much work goes into all this. The text notes in Erin's youtube videos pretty much repeat all of the request below, while ASR videos only provide a one line link back to the relevant ASR forum post for the review.
Erin:
Contribute / Support
If you find this review helpful and want to help support the cause there are a few ways you can do so below. Your support helps me pay for new items to test, hardware, miscellaneous items needed for testing and costs of the site’s server space and bandwidth. Any help is
very much appreciated.
Join my Patreon:
Donate via PayPal:
Or using my product affiliate link below to buy this speaker or
anything they sell that you want to try out. This will earn me a small commission at no additional cost to you. You can use these links anytime, now or in the future.
You can also join my
Facebook and
YouTube pages if you’d like to follow along with updates.
ASR:
ASR is relies on goodwill of the visitors and members of the site to cover its expenses and enable testing of more products. There are no sponsors. No adds. No nothing.
If you are interested in supporting us using donations, you can use one of the following four methods:
1. Patreon. This is an external service that accepts monthly donations. You can change/stop payments anytime you want. Just go to this page:
https://www.patreon.com/audiosciencereview
Patreon takes its cut from donations you make. It is a good option if you want to spread your donations over time, or
if you are not a member of ASR.
There is no linkage between Patreon and the forum software. So if you wish to be recognized as a Patreon donor, please contact me and I will do so. Alternatively you may want to wait a bit to see if I catch and update it.
2. ASR members can upgrade their membership to support us using one-time payment. This is the process:
To donate, click on your alias on top right of the forum. In the drop down select "Account Upgrades."
Once you click that, you are presented with three
one-time options. I have set them to $25, $50 and $100 per year.
There is no auto-renewal. It just expires after a year and you can then choose to donate again or not.
When you click on the option you like, you are taken to Paypal. You can use your paypal account if you have one. If you don't, just tell it so and you can enter any credit card you like.
Paypal is supposed to notify the forum software that you have made a donation so that your title gets upgraded here. Unfortunately it doesn't always work. So if after you donated you don't see a "Patreon donor" under your avatar, let me know and I will fix it.
3.
Direct donation using Paypal. If you don't like to use any of the above options, use this link to make your own custom donation amount:
https://paypal.me/AudioScienceReview?locale.x=en_US
EDIT: I do not use the Amazon Affiliate program (even though I am qualified to do so). So please use the above two methods.
4. Amazon affiliate. I am set up as an Amazon associate meaning that if you go to Amazon using a special link and buy things there, some percentage of the purchase amount gets sent to me as commission. The amount of commision ranges from zero to 8% I think. Sadly the highest amount is for fake jewelry and such.
To avoid appearance of bias, I do NOT currently provide links to products I review. I have a single link I have setup for a Topping D10: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...9P3X3&linkId=90d5ba32c12c3c2980eb1eb288a17f4d
You can use the above link to buy anything from Amazon and theoretically I get commission based on that. Simply navigate away from the above link to find whatever you want inside Amazon and we should be good to go. The price to you will be the same whether you use this affiliate link or not. So might as well use it so that something good comes out of it at Amazon's expense.
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This is a good time to
thank the many of you that have donated. It puts a huge smile on my face every time I see a notification that a donation has been made. Not as much for the money which is appreciated, but the fact that there is no better acknowledgement of the value of this site than someone spending hard cash on it.