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  • Show your support for Brickset

    Posted by Huw, 26 Sep 2007 04:00. Filed under shop.LEGO.com (General).

    The more observant among you will have noticed the colourful S@H adverts on the left-hand-side of this page. Brickset is now a LEGO affiliate which means that, if you access S@H by clicking on the ads to get there, Brickset will get a small commission on every item bought.

    Having two ads for different markets is a bit messy, and what about the rest of the world, I hear you ask? Well, it seems the different regions of LEGO do things separately and at the moment only NA (US and Canada) and UK have affiliate schemes. I'll put some country detection code in place soon to show only the relevant one when I have worked out how.

    I'm hoping to put direct product links on the relevant set pages, if I can get the data in a usable format from them. There are at present 590-odd different sets listed on S@H and I'm certainly not going to add them manually!

    Show your support for Brickset by clicking on the link and buying something today!


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Posted by garet6, 26 Sep 2007 07:22

Thats great! Next time i go and purchase something, i'll remember to go through Brickset first. I mean, this is such a cool site and i'm supprised you have'nt done this with lego before...

Posted by Keshal, 26 Sep 2007 09:24

Great idea!
But its pretty....sad the link doesnt work for every country :(

Posted by Sci-Fi, 26 Sep 2007 10:24

Cool Idea but why this works only in U.S. and Canada ? We here in Germany wan´t it too :-(

Posted by Imperial13 in United States, 26 Sep 2007 10:59

cool...

Posted by Paul007 in United States, 26 Sep 2007 11:33

An official affiliate of the lego company, eh? Good for us!

Posted by marcussmithAFTERTHECRASH, 26 Sep 2007 16:07

This is great! I will be buying through you guys when I buy my next sets. But the flashing yellow is kind of annoying when you are browsing sets.

Posted by bigz123 in United States, 26 Sep 2007 16:43

does this mean we can now buy things from you guys?

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 26 Sep 2007 17:45

No -- toy buy from LEGO S@H as normal. We just carry their ads.

I'll see if there's a less distracting ad I can use.

Posted by bigz123 in United States, 26 Sep 2007 19:09

thanks Huw oh and how can i contact you

Posted by Doctor Sinister in United Kingdom, 27 Sep 2007 03:58

I saw these ad's yesterday and ordered something via the link straight away!

Dr. S.

Posted by Skut in Australia, 27 Sep 2007 06:39

Fantastic, but such a shame it isn't available to Australian/New Zealand buyers! I would definitely use it!

Posted by Imperial13 in United States, 27 Sep 2007 10:43

go down to where the privacy policy is, there's a link that sais contact us

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 27 Sep 2007 12:12

I have toned them down a bit, LMKWYT...

Posted by marcussmithAFTERTHECRASH, 27 Sep 2007 16:10

I just looked at MOC pages and it seems that they are linking to lego.com like brickset. I do not know if they are being paid for this, but I think they are.
Thankyou for fixing the ads in the lefthand corner Huw.

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 27 Sep 2007 17:24

Looks like MOCPages are doing the same. I hate big ads and won't let them overpower the site, so be sure to buy through my links and not theirs :-)

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 27 Sep 2007 17:37

Oh, and I have now implemented country detection. UK visitors see the UK ad, everyone else see the US one. I have no idea what happens if someone outside NA clicks the link and buys something; guess we'll find out if someone tries!

Posted by Keshal, 28 Sep 2007 12:13

Click on the page if u re in Germany and u see the S@H main page

Posted by Huffy1968 in United Kingdom, 28 Sep 2007 17:40

Guess I'd better delete my S@H bookmark... :-)

Posted by Ovid07 in United States, 28 Sep 2007 19:25

Good idea!

Posted by Deinonychus in United States, 30 Sep 2007 21:42

Do you get any credit for click-throughs?

Posted by exo-builder59, 01 Oct 2007 19:53

my next set I but i will buy it through here.

Posted by martinlegokitty4n5, 07 Oct 2007 11:29

Yea! Brickset helped me decide what i wanted to buy, (and others). Why didn't brickset do that years ago?

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