MetaTalk posts tagged with paypal

Paypal update

mathowie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:05:26 -0800

Paypal update: after two weeks of stalling, it's off to final review. Results should come in a few more days. Just wanted to give an update to the Paypal/100k user charity drive raffle thing. Roughly in order, here's what happened: 1) throwing the raffle part violated the AUP at paypal, a limit was put in place to remove paypal from the raffle within one week (November 18) 2) I ended the raffle early to make sure it was done before the week was out 3) A second limit was put on the paypal account (November 20) for acting as a nonprofit/official donation channel for the nonprofits (proof required in order to lift) 4) I said that yes, our app violated the AUP and I'd never do it again, so limitation #1 was lifted on November 23. 5) the second limit still stood awaiting official nonprofit status documents from me, or letters from every nonprofit saying I was a designated agent (neither of which I can produce) 6) Limited account means no money can go out to charities, cannot be withdrawn by me, and cannot be refunded to donators. So basically we're in the last stage limbo, as a paypal rep pushed it to final review today and says a decision will happen within 5 days (weekend days count). I figure there are few possibilities: - all donations go back to the donators, then we ask you all to donate as you stated - we are cleared and allowed to donate to the charities to complete the project - the mefi paypal account is locked/canceled with funds either returned or allowed for withdraw, we convert to Google Checkout in the future for new users/tshirts That's about it. I really hate being stuck in limbo for three weeks, I hate having to hold onto everyone's money, and I really wish and hope we can get the donated money to the charities next week. I've emailed and called Paypal several times to no avail, and I'm pretty angry with them.

How ya gonna pay for that there server?

vytae — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:47:03 -0800

The status blog says that new hardware is on the way. Is this putting a financial strain on MetaFilter? Should we take up a collection? I don't know whether this is even needed, but I'm sure there are plenty of people here (myself included) who would be happy to chip in a bit on paypal to help pay for our shiny new hardware that keeps the bad guys out and the sites chugging along. I'm certainly not flush with cash, but I like to contribute what I can to make sure the things that matter to me can stick around.

Will you take a credit card?

Optimus Chyme — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:22:51 -0800

I see MeFi still only accepts PayPal. I was going to buy a friend an account tonight, but I stopped using PayPal a long time ago because I think they're pretty hideous and unethical. Will you ever accept credit cards, Matt? Is there not enough demand to make it worthwhile?

Music donations

beniamino — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:55:13 -0800

I would like to see a mechanism whereby MetaFilter Musicians were encouraged to accept donations (PayPal links?) and listeners were encouraged to donate. I would far rather donate to my favorite artists here than prop up Sony Corp.

Pony: alternate payment methods

delmoi — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:06:29 -0800

Can we get another way to pay for accounts then paypal? I'd rather pay $20 for an account through another service then use them. There are several, relatively cheap credit card transaction services out there.

A user's experience with PayPal seems to have made him snap.

b1tr0t — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:04:52 -0800

There have been numerous constructive product support requests, and frequent incidental product slams in both the green and the blue. NortonDC experience with PayPal seems to have made him snap.