# Amazon.com collecting donations online for the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987 "2001-09-12T02:14:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dentarthurdent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dentarthurdent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dentarthurdent)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/1 "2001-09-12T02:14:21Z")
If you want to help, but don’t know how… this is a good place to start [www.amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com) ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/2 "2001-09-12T03:00:09Z")
Thanks for posting this. They’ve had $50,000 in donations in the last 90 minutes. Makes me proud of people. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/3 "2001-09-12T03:07:15Z")
I just made a donation, as I can’t give blood at the moment. It’s over 80,000 now. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/4 "2001-09-12T03:11:04Z")
Nice to see the funds flowing in. I just donated, and will attempt to donate blood in the next few days (I have issues with those needles). ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/5 "2001-09-12T03:22:07Z")
I just donated too. Thank you for the site. I’m severly angry at myself that I just got a tattoo, can’t donate any blood today. This makes me feel a little less useless. 800 dead in the Pentagon. Holy god. ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/6 "2001-09-12T03:23:13Z")
[slight hijack] Does anyone know where to donate to the families of the emergency personnel killed responding to the tragedy? I would really like to do so. ---
**Author:** ![OrganicMatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/898d66/32.png) [@OrganicMatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrganicMatter)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/7 "2001-09-12T03:31:58Z")
dentarthurdent, Thanks for making this info available. I feel a tiny bit better now, having done something. ---
**Author:** ![dentarthurdent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dentarthurdent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dentarthurdent)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/8 "2001-09-12T05:23:27Z")
it’s up to over 150,000 collected now ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/9 "2001-09-12T05:28:06Z")
$152,796.50 I have to wait to give blood, but they say they’ll be needing donations for at least a month ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/10 "2001-09-12T05:33:42Z")
Thanks for posting this thread. I’ve alerted my friends on other boards. ---
**Author:** ![LazarusLong42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LazarusLong42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LazarusLong42)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2001, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-collecting-donations-online-for-the-red-cross-disaster-relief-fund/80987/11 "2001-09-12T05:54:34Z")
I just wanted to note a few other options: 1. Paypal is also accepting donations for the ARC, if you don’t have an Amazon account set up but do have a Paypal account set up; 2. The American Red Cross is also accepting direct donations through its website ([http://www.redcross.org](http://www.redcross.org)), which will be just as easy to use unless you already have credit cards set up at Amazon or Paypal; 3. Many Coinstar machines accept donations directly to the ARC. Consider taking your spare change jar to the nearest machine, if you have them in your community. From the ARC site, on how spare change makes a difference: 66 pennies: Allows us to give a child any one of 11 “after the disaster” coloring books and a box of crayons. I read that, and for the first time today, cried. LL