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Donations
- Thread starter warren
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Richard Dye
master brummie
I signed up for the monthly subscription, even if you can’t/don’t want to do that, please try to make a donation of some kind. It is unfair to let it fall mostly on Warren and it is for such a good cause!Just a little note to say we are running a little low on funds we have enough for the next few months, but anything you can give to help keep the site going is always appreciated.
either way even if I pay the site won't go down
thank you as always
BHF
Mark Tooze
master brummie
Agreed - I also signed up.
Just looking at the home page we seem to have lots of guests and very few members on line at present:-
Is there anything we can do to encourage the 409 guests to become members I wonder - assuming they are not all bots of course!
Richard Dye
master brummie
Good point! Is there something we can do to show why it’s better to be a member than a guest?
Richard Dye
master brummie
No, but if we don’t try we will see no change!
Mark Tooze
master brummie
On most sites (ie: 28dayslater) you have to become a member to see the vast majority of content. I think that is fair enough. Its not like we are asking for the earth. If all 409 guests joined and donated a pound a month that's nearly £5K extra per year coming in.
Richard Dye
master brummie
Yes, I think that is more than fair! Even if you could be a non paying guest for a month (or something like that) then make a modest contribution and go from there. To Marks point a £1 per month would help (or more).
warren
Administration Team
and again thank so much to all who have donatedit certainly would! I'll have a think might make the site restricted to none members so they can only see a few bits of the site.
ill sort this the weekend when I've got a bit of time
warren
Administration Team
just wanted to be a little bit more cheeky to get that last £80 we need for the license, i appreciate everyone who has dontated of course! but with this last bit i can pay in advance and not have to worry about it for a little while 
thank you as always we couldnt keep going without you and it means the world to me.
ill add the last month then we have 6 months running costs sorted as well the we wont need another drive until next year yay!
thank you as always we couldnt keep going without you and it means the world to me.
ill add the last month then we have 6 months running costs sorted as well
the we wont need another drive until next year yay!I’m having a nightmare today around PayPal. Set up an account to donate, not sure what I’m doing wrong but thought it would go out of my bank account straight away via PayPal. It’s not showing up in my pending or any activity in paypal.
However, thought the donation was accepted.
Spoke to by bank nothing in pending which I knew. They t said it usually shows in pending almost straight away
PayPal have take 1p out to I guess access my bank.
I’m sure I’ve set up PayPal wrong
Any suggestions.
I’ll leave it a few days to see if the the donation goes out of my bank .
If it hasn’t any ideas how to donate directly from my bank
However, thought the donation was accepted.
Spoke to by bank nothing in pending which I knew. They t said it usually shows in pending almost straight away
PayPal have take 1p out to I guess access my bank.
I’m sure I’ve set up PayPal wrong
Any suggestions.
I’ll leave it a few days to see if the the donation goes out of my bank .
If it hasn’t any ideas how to donate directly from my bank
PayPal wiil send you a email confirming payment
Or log on to your account and checkout your Activity
You may have entered the details incorrectly
which i did a few times when i first started using Paypal
Have you validated your Bank card to your account?
the fact they took a Penny is a good
sign
Good Luck
I think I know what I’ve done regarding the donation.I donated before i was linked to bank.
Then I linked to bank had second thoughts because I’m in a joint with husband, but have my own log in and bank account number.
Thought as I’m away not sure if my hub wants his card link.so I withdraw the link to my bank
All very complicated.
I have a credit card in my own name, so I’m waiting to see if by anything goes out this week, and if not will use my credit card I think on paypal
Then I linked to bank had second thoughts because I’m in a joint with husband, but have my own log in and bank account number.
Thought as I’m away not sure if my hub wants his card link.so I withdraw the link to my bank
All very complicated.
I have a credit card in my own name, so I’m waiting to see if by anything goes out this week, and if not will use my credit card I think on paypal
Richard Dye
master brummie
That is the best way to do it. We have a joint account with our own cards tied to the account (didn’t plan it that way) but it works!
Richard Dye
master brummie
I think you could be right Janice, I had to use PayPal because I am in the US. Transferring directly from a card should also work.