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Forum Donations & Running Costs
I have just renewed our yearly forum hosting & domain, in recent years our donations have declined considerably & we no longer have the generosity once showed by certain members that are no longer with us, which means I myself have to mainly meet these costs.
I thank those of you who have donated recently, but having said this, in order for the site to continue in its present form I need more assistance to help cover these costs in future. So if you can help, then all donations are gratefully appreciated.
If you do donate help us further by selecting ‘Pay Friend’ to avoid the heavy PayPal fees being taken from what we actually receive.
Click Link Here To Donate: http://paypal.me/EdWatts
Thank You
Ed (Admin).
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Donation sent with thanks
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I'm sure when I've made donations in the past this hasn't been necessary. I'm happy to make a direct transfer to a bank account, if you can let me have the necessary details - by private message if you prefer not to publish them here.
Really appreciate your work in keeping the forum running.
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If others find the forum helpful and would like to contribute it’s greatly appreciated. Without these donations the alternative is to have sponsors or many adverts across the site which would be a last resort.
If you do donate please remember to add your username with your payment so I can tie your payment to your account in order to update your forum account to show you are a Donator, Thank you.
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IanH wrote:I'd pay a hell of a lot more to never see another advert as long as I live Ed!!!!
Yes indeed Ian hence why we’ve never gone down this route
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Many thanks for all your good work and efforts.
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As always, thanks for all your efforts
did before I read your Donators name request
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But thanks very much for running the Forum, Ed. Long may it continue to thrive!
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Same for me with problems with PayPal. Will happily contribute if there is another way to pay.Rocky wrote:Ed - I am the same as Roger. Had a bad experience with Paypal in the past and am not prepared to signup again. If you are unable to turn guest payments on, please PM me with BACS details and I will happily contribute.
Regards,
Rocky
Thanks
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rogerblack wrote:Attn: Ed (Admin)
Further to my earlier post regarding not wishing to have to create a Paypal account, it seems that there is an option for the account requesting payment to be set to allow Guest Payments - should be something like "Select ON under PayPal Account Optional".
I'd guess this has been disabled at some stage on the forum donation account since I have definitely made donations before but I closed my Paypal account many, many years ago.
I would love to continue to donate but will not be able to do so if it means creating a new Paypal account - maybe worth checking the Guest Pay setting as this doesn't currently appear on the page linked to for payments?
Hi Roger
Thanks for thinking of us.
As far as I’m aware you don’t need an account with PayPal to send money to someone like you used to, unless it’s changed of course unbeknown to me? You could pay using a debit card or credit card via PayPal without having to create an account.
Having just looked it appears you can send payments still without creating an account with PayPal here https://www.paypal.com/va/webapps/mpp/send-money-online
I have replied to the message you sent me, sadly PayPal is the only way we accept payments as it just simplifies things for us, it allows us to keep a history of payments all in one place and we use PayPal to pay our expenses like hosting and domain renewals so it just makes things easy for us.
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I see what you mean by not going through the link you don’t have the email address, don’t want to publish this publicly so will message you with these details. Thanks Ed
Donation sent by original link but forgot to say who I was.
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Hi EdAdmin wrote:Hi Roger
I’ve tried both the PayPal app (which I use all the time) as well as logging in online via a browser, but can’t see anything like you describe sorry.
Regards
Ed.
If you private message me with your bank details, I can do an online BACS transfer.
If you're not happy to do that, then maybe you could let me have your postal address -
I'd be happier to trust sending cash* in the post rather than using Paypal.
*I haven't had a chequebook for years!
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rogerblack wrote:Hi Ed
If you private message me with your bank details, I can do an online BACS transfer.
If you're not happy to do that, then maybe you could let me have your postal address -
I'd be happier to trust sending cash* in the post rather than using Paypal.
*I haven't had a chequebook for years!
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