Re: Forum Donations & Running Costs

[sussextravellers]

Hi ED , Thanks for all you do in this great forum . Donation sent
kind regards neil Sussextravellers

[BobK]

ED...Admin  :   tried to make a donation today and went through the paypal procedure and when I was asked to confirm the payment on my phone  banking app....  the payment came up as "Payment to Rocketman   ???   I aborted it .     Is this your paypal name, ED???

[Admin]

ED...Admin  :   tried to make a donation today and went through the paypal procedure and when I was asked to confirm the payment on my phone  banking app....  the payment came up as "Payment to Rocketman   ???   I aborted it .     Is this your paypal name, ED???

Hi Bob

I have a couple of email addresses connected to my PayPal account hence the confusion, but yes if that comes up I will receive it, sorry for the delay I’ve just come back from two holidays, was home for a couple of days in between breaks but was so busy with other stuff I had no time to get on the forum. 

Apologies to anyone waiting for their forum member status to be updated, bare with me while I try to catch up with anything requiring my attention.

Regards

Ed

[groundhog]

Thanks for maintaining this great forum Ed, slap my wrists for not having sent a contribution recently. Now done.

[Admin]

Thanks for maintaining this great forum Ed, slap my wrists for not having sent a contribution recently. Now done.

Thanks Groundhog much appreciated, as always donations are completely voluntary for those happy to help out with our costs. Best Regards Ed.

[MickyG]

Donation sent, keep up the good work!

[Bonniegirl]

Hi.  Donation just sent.  Had no idea of what would be normal so just guessed.  Hope its ok.  

Thanks for running the forum.  We have found it to be very useful/informative.  Thanks

[Admin]

Hi.  Donation just sent.  Had no idea of what would be normal so just guessed.  Hope its ok.  

Thanks for running the forum.  We have found it to be very useful/informative.  Thanks

Many thanks for supporting us, much appreciated.

Also I have just picked up your message regarding change of username so will do this for you now.

Regards

Admin.

[Nain]

Donation made 

[Dynamic]

Donation sent, sorry for the delay!  Thank you so much for all you do.   This forum has helped me so much to enjoy my camper.   I would be lost without it!  Sue

[Admin]

Donation sent, sorry for the delay!  Thank you so much for all you do.   This forum has helped me so much to enjoy my camper.   I would be lost without it!  Sue

Thanks for your support Sue. 

Yes we are blessed with an active, knowledgeable, friendly and helpful bunch of members, glad to hear it’s been a help to you. 

Admin.

[gassygassy]

I want to make a donation, but paypal has got me stuck. They send a security code to my old phone number, which I don't have any more so I tried to get to my personal data, which is more difficult for me to do than it is for them. Can anyone tell me how to change your registered phone number with paypal?
I should add that I have now spent 45 minutes going through the Paypal web site advice on how to add a new phone number - you cannot do that unless you can send them a verification number which they have sent to your old phone number. Apparently you are supposed to add a new number while you still have your old number. Since I don't have my old number I cannot add a new one.

[The Bargee]

I have the same problem with PayPal. It tries to send texts to my landline, which I no longer have. Changing it involves lots of hoops. Ridiculous!

[Mike187]

I want to make a donation, but paypal has got me stuck. They send a security code to my old phone number, which I don't have any more so I tried to get to my personal data, which is more difficult for me to do than it is for them. Can anyone tell me how to change your registered phone number with paypal?
I should add that I have now spent 45 minutes going through the Paypal web site advice on how to add a new phone number - you cannot do that unless you can send them a verification number which they have sent to your old phone number. Apparently you are supposed to add a new number while you still have your old number. Since I don't have my old number I cannot add a new one.

If you log onto PayPal website, not the app. At top righthand side you should see a cog next to the log out button, pressing the cog should take you to a page with your details. On the right hand should be your phone number there is a button above it to add a number and to the right of the number is a button to change it, press that. Big caveat I have not used it myself so I don’t know process it takes you through. Apologies if you have already tried that and it doesn’t work.

Mike

[Paulmold]

These are the instructions on phone numbers on PayPal website. I've just tried to remove my home number as I no longer have a landline and the 'remove' it refers to is not there so I don't think their instructions are correct.  Perhaps an email/contact form may be needed.

[Paulmold]

I've had my landline number removed by contacting PayPal through their contact page and using the message-us system. They sorted it in a couple of hours.

[gassygassy]

If you log onto PayPal website, not the app. At top righthand side you should see a cog next to the log out button, pressing the cog should take you to a page with your details. .....

Mike

I tried that, it doesn't work. I tried www.paypal.com and www.paypal.co.uk, they are both the same. The home page doesn't show a cog, just a 'join' button and a 'log in' button and the obligatory smiling happy brown and pink persons feeling great joy over holding a dog and a cup of tea. The log in button obviously takes you back down the 'we'll send you a security code to your phone' route, which doesn't work if you don't have that phone number. I'll try Peter's method . . . .No that doesn't work either, I have tried the 'contact us' route, the 'Ive got a problem' route, and every single button that can be pressed has been pressed. Apparently I have a '2 step verification' process and one of the steps is to send a verification code to my old number, which I then have to enter in the space provided. It doesn't matter which series of buttons I press, it always comes to a grinding halt when they send a verification code to a number that doesn't exist. And they have no system that tells them that the number has not responded. If you dialled a non existent number through a Strowger telephone exchange you would get a continuous
 'number unobtainable' tone. Now we are so advanced we can buy a car or a house using a phone, you can get a university degree just using a phone, but apparently if you dial a number that ends at a router as in my case, you don't know you have dialled a router and not a phone.
I'll get some more minutes credit on my phone and go down the 'your call is so important to us that we don't employ enough staff to actually answer you' route.

[Paulmold]

If you can get to the page I highlighted 3 posts earlier, scroll down to this....



Use the message us link to post your problem, they will get back to you in a couple of hours, or use the other contact method ie phone them.

[allanwbrown]

All done. Many thanks for all you do Ed.

[gassygassy]

At that page I get:
Message us
Please log in to send us a message
Having trouble logging in?

After a couple of clicks and new pages it sends a message to the old phone number with a verification code.

I tried another route:

1. Go to your Settings. (this won't work. I can't go to settings because it requires you to log in , to access Settings. I can't log in because they send a verification number to my old number)
   
2. In the Phone Numbers section:  
   

• Click + Add New to add a new phone number. Enter the details then click Add phone number. (Remember to confirm it). So in theory at this point you have two phone numbers registered. However you cannot add a new phone number unless you have logged in, which requires the verification code they have sent to your old number.
  
  
• To edit your phone number, click Change next to the number. Make your edits, then click Update Number. 
  
• To remove a phone number, click Remove beside the number. (You can only remove a phone number if you have at least two added to your PayPal account.)
  

Anyway I will have to phone them and see how long it takes. What I do understand is that any Joe Scammer could phone them to change a number and they do need to verify that I am in fact me and I am not a scammer so I guess they will want lots of information.

[tysoncat]

Thanks Ed , money sent.
Keep up the good work we all appreciate what you do for the forum.
Thanks again.
Mick = TYSONCAT.

[Delboy]

Thanks to everyone involved in running the forum, it is a very useful source of information. Delboy

[Gatcombe740]

Wanted to make donation but do not use Paypal
Can you let me know of alternatives

[Admin]

Wanted to make donation but do not use Paypal
Can you let me know of alternatives

Hi Gatcombe740

Thanks for wanting to support us, as stated several times previously PayPal is our only method of accepting payments as it’s simple & allow us to keep an easy record of payments in. 

You may not be aware but you don’t even need to have a PayPal account to send money. 

Regards

Ed

[rogerblack]

Wanted to make donation but do not use Paypal
Can you let me know of alternatives

Hi Gatcombe740

Thanks for wanting to support us, as stated several times previously PayPal is our only method of accepting payments as it’s simple & allow us to keep an easy record of payments in. 

You may not be aware but you don’t even need to have a PayPal account to send money. 

Regards

Ed

"You may not be aware but you don’t even need to have a PayPal account to send money." 

Can you please advise how to do this?

If I go to the page linked from your original post and click the Send button, it then goes to a second page that requires me to either Log In  or Sign Up, no other options are offered . . .