Forum Funding

This is a temporary thread to keep you posted on the financial situation of the forum. Loki and I, in cooperation with Wraith, will work out a somewhat more structured way to do that in the future and let you know the details of that.

The current amount we have in cash is $149.83, donated by 7 members of the forum. We don't have a system yet to show who contributed what, or even a decision if we want such a system, but we're greatly thankful for the donations so far.

The current target is $285 for the purchase of the vBulletin suite for the forum, so additional funds are still very welcome. The donate-button with which you can contribute to the funding of the forum is located here.

For those of us who refuse to use paypal, what are the other options for sending in a donation?

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Originally Posted by Hazir

We don't have a system yet to show who contributed what,

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Don't make one. Just don't. It will only end in tears.

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Originally Posted by Illusions

For those of us who refuse to use paypal, what are the other options for sending in a donation?

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You can use a credit card from the same screen.

Nessus, agreed.

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Originally Posted by Loki

You can use a credit card from the same screen.

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Okay, go there, see how the website address is still Paypal? Yeah they can go fuck themselves hard. Do we have an option for not using Paypal?

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Originally Posted by Illusions

Okay, go there, see how the website address is still Paypal? Yeah they can go **** themselves hard. Do we have an option for not using Paypal?

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Yeah, but it charges straight from the credit card, and as far as I could tell, it doesn't even charge a fee.

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Originally Posted by Illusions

Okay, go there, see how the website address is still Paypal? Yeah they can go **** themselves hard. Do we have an option for not using Paypal?

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Another member without a CC asked me to donate on his behalf later today, he'll deposit his donation in my bankaccount.

Yes, Paypal is evil and probably just a ploy of Satan. We're still figuring out how much they are skimming from our hard-earned money. It seems that we've lost somewhere between around $7 to them so far.

The better news is that so far 7 people have donated to a grand total of $181.- That's really a great result I think for such a small forum in such a short time. We have decided not to mention individual donations, if people feel they want their donations to be more public they should feel free to do so themselves. But regardless of all that; know that your money was very welcome.

However; the target is to enable a switch to vBulletin, which means more people can help us to get there. So get yourself to the blogpage and click that Donate Button

Did you guys get mine? Cuz paypal is being a bit bitchy to me.

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Originally Posted by Hazir

Yes, Paypal is evil and probably just a ploy of Satan. We're still figuring out how much they are skimming from our hard-earned money. It seems that we've lost somewhere between around $7 to them so far.

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https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd= ... es-outside

Fees are 2.9% + $.30 per non-paypal/paypal credit transaction... :|

Almost any company that will process credit cards will take a similar amount. I don't think we should try collecting checks by snail mail either.

Flixy: We got it.

Just to be clear, there is absolutely no alternative to pay-pal here?

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Originally Posted by Steely Glint

Just to be clear, there is absolutely no alternative to pay-pal here?

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Not for the time being.

Turns out I had a PayPal account. Just put down some cash money.

For the time being the Donations button has been taken down. We can debate placing a permanent one for running costs in a different thread.

As things stand today the target of $285 for the vBulletin has been reached.

There all in all donations by 10 people with a total of $297.52.

For 9 donations a total of Paypal fees was deducted to the amount of $12.52

I would like to congratulate the forum on this result and am looking forward to see our money well spent.

I thought I had gone mad. I was looking around for the donate button and didn't find any. Let me know if you need more later.