You've heard of "eat what you kill." This is only somewhat related.
As you have likely figured out, Constitutional Daily isn't much of a cash cow. So, what we're going to do is kill all our readers and drink their blood for nourishment.
Unless of course, we can scrape together some money for booze. Here's the plan:
We have an Amazon Associate account for Con Daily. That means whenever we refer readers to products on Amazon through one of our special associate links and a purchase is made, we get a very small piece of the action. It doesn't raise the price of your purchase at all, just decreases Amazon's share a bit. It also doesn't matter whether what you purchase is what we referred you to - you just need to have been sent to Amazon by us.
We send you to Amazon, you buy stuff you would have bought anyways, and we get a couple bucks.
But why should you bother helping us out at all? And why shouldn't you just set up your own Amazon Associate account and take the money yourself?
Well, first, Amazon doesn't let you do that, so you can't.
The better reason though is because you'll get an awesome prize if you use our account. The person who racks up the biggest bill between now and October 1 will win something totally awesome. We're thinking something like a Wine Woot or a bottle of The Balvenie 12. Something in that price range. Maybe just straight up $50 cash to save on shipping costs. It'll be up to whoever wins, so don't worry if wine or Scotch isn't your speed.
To participate, you need to do three things:
1. Go to Amazon through a link from this site. Such as this one. Most of the links here have our special associate tag embedded, but some older articles might not have been updated. To be safe, follow this link. Even better, bookmark it.
2. Make a purchase. It can be anything really, law school text books, office supplies, early Christmas presents, whatever. Perhaps even all the supplies your small law practice needs (thanks Namby Pamby).
3. Claim your purchase. Amazon will tell us what was purchased and when, but obviously not who the buyer was. To participate you'll need to e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the subject line "Drink What You Kill" and tell us what you got and the date you ordered it. You'll need to let us know within a week of ordering, though it's best to claim your order after the product has shipped. We'll then confirm the purchase on our end and enter it into our handy dandy spreadsheet. The information will be kept strictly confidential, but there's really no other way to do this contest.
Come October 1, whoever has the highest order total will get their prize. (Actually, October 8, to give people time to claim last minute orders.) It's that simple. Except for the caveats:
1. If for some reason we didn't get credit for the order, we can't count it. But, if you follow one of the links here (not the Wine Woot link, obviously) and make your purchase, you should be fine. Just don't go closing the window and then coming back a day later and complaining it didn't take.
2. The value of the order is based on what you actually pay. If you buy a used book from a third party vendor, you get the actual sale price, not the sticker price. If you cancel your order, it doesn't count.
3. Namby Pamby is not allowed to win. (Same goes for the rest of the Con Daily crew. Sorry, us.)
4. You can most definitely band together. Get your small law practice participating, or your study group, your roommate, whatever. You just need to contact us from the same e-mail address every time you claim your purchases.
5. Here's the caveat you'll like. If a lot of people are participating, we'll bump up the value of the prize. Either one big first prize, or multiple prizes for second and third place. And even better, we'll run the contest again.
Now get out there, and start buying some shit. You can win some booze. But more importantly, you'll help keep us at Con Daily liquored up.
