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As I think, it's safe. Try one of your rarely used Amazon Associate ID - make a freeassociatestore.com's link with this id, add any item to shopping cart and start to checkout at amazon, but do not complete it. Tomorrow you can check amazon stats and try to find your ID in clicks list.
Now we close our Free Associate Store for update. We have a little problems with shopping cart functions. We will be online soon.