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Trailer, RV, and mobile home living is experiencing a huge resurgence, largely because of the 10k baby boomers a day entering retirement. Unfortunately, while

Trailer, RV, and mobile home living is experiencing a huge resurgence, largely because of the 10k baby boomers a day entering retirement. Unfortunately, while many of those boomers are just wanting to check out the experience, many have found that their "retirement plans" aren't able to include a regular home. This is partly the subject of this book: Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century http://a.co/htj0AfR http://a.co/htj0AfR

a3n 9y ago
I took one for the team, and clicked. It goes here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/039324931X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_t7NrAbC0JXDVZ https://www.amazon.com/dp/039324931X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_t7... Interesting that the shortened link is http, while the destination is https. Is that usual? Ah, and I just noticed that a.co goes directly to amazon.com, so I suppose it's their own shortner. Of course I didn't know that before I clicked.
- gruez 9y ago
  it's shortner that adds the poster's affiliate link.
  - mikestew 9y ago
    Or a shortener that hides the referral link, depending on one’s perspective.
  - ceejayoz 9y ago
    There's no affiliate link in that shortened URL, unless AWS has changed the parameter lately. ref= in an Amazon URL isn't a referral, it's something internal - referrals are all done via a tag= URL param.
- banderman 9y ago
  You can also use a URL expander, such as http://urlex.org/ http://urlex.org/
  - a3n 9y ago
    I suppose that's better than clicking, although now I'm leaking information to a fourth party (and keeping it from a third, unless my identity/data is already embedded in the shortened URL).
- creeble 9y ago
  Sorry, I just used the link from the little email icon Amazon shows. Didn't realize it had an affiliate link (I don't have an affiliate account that I know of).
creeble 9y ago
And to comment more on my own post, and make the Amazon link even more ironic(?), there's the whole Amazon "Camper Force"[1] thing, which Wired[2] did an article about a couple of months ago. It seems Camperforce is a combination of retirees just wanting to pick up some spending money in exchange for a (seasonal) job, and near-desperate retirees who live in an RV/camper because it's the only thing they can afford. [1] http://rvlife.com/camperforce-at-amazon/ http://rvlife.com/camperforce-at-amazon/ [2] https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic-retiree-army/ https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic...

a3n 9y ago

I took one for the team, and clicked. It goes here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/039324931X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_t7NrAbC0JXDVZ https://www.amazon.com/dp/039324931X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_t7... Interesting that the shortened link is http, while the destination is https. Is that usual? Ah, and I just noticed that a.co goes directly to amazon.com, so I suppose it's their own shortner. Of course I didn't know that before I clicked.

gruez 9y ago
it's shortner that adds the poster's affiliate link.
- mikestew 9y ago
  Or a shortener that hides the referral link, depending on one’s perspective.
- ceejayoz 9y ago
  There's no affiliate link in that shortened URL, unless AWS has changed the parameter lately. ref= in an Amazon URL isn't a referral, it's something internal - referrals are all done via a tag= URL param.
banderman 9y ago
You can also use a URL expander, such as http://urlex.org/ http://urlex.org/
- a3n 9y ago
  I suppose that's better than clicking, although now I'm leaking information to a fourth party (and keeping it from a third, unless my identity/data is already embedded in the shortened URL).
creeble 9y ago
Sorry, I just used the link from the little email icon Amazon shows. Didn't realize it had an affiliate link (I don't have an affiliate account that I know of).

creeble 9y ago

And to comment more on my own post, and make the Amazon link even more ironic(?), there's the whole Amazon "Camper Force"[1] thing, which Wired[2] did an article about a couple of months ago. It seems Camperforce is a combination of retirees just wanting to pick up some spending money in exchange for a (seasonal) job, and near-desperate retirees who live in an RV/camper because it's the only thing they can afford. [1] http://rvlife.com/camperforce-at-amazon/ http://rvlife.com/camperforce-at-amazon/ [2] https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic-retiree-army/ https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic...