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Offline clubex

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« on: 2012/02/08, 11:58:22 »
I tried this morning to make a donation via PayPal but I had to gave up. It's bad enough that the donation site is only in German but even with google translate I couldn't find how to make a donation. Also Iceweasel reports that the site can't be authenticated which will make people think twice about donating to what appears to be an untrustworthy site.

I think there is an urgent need for improvement. Aptosid has a much easier method of making a donation so it can be done.

Offline devil

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« Reply #1 on: 2012/02/08, 12:09:28 »
What is so easy about paypal with aptosid? donating to a private paypal account of one of the devs? Not saying, something is wrong there, but ffis hadles big amounts of money for debian and i know the guys there personaly, they have been involved in debian for ages. For example Joey Schulze: http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/Debian/

As for an english donations-page: http://siduction.org/index.php?module=inhalt&func=view&preview=1&pid=3&lang=en

The donation-sprint news also links to that page.

greetz
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ian_s

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« Reply #2 on: 2012/02/16, 17:37:15 »
I too have tried to figure out how to make a pay pal donation, with no success. Please supply an easy step by step guide or provide a page similar to aptosid.

ian_s

Offline clubex

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« Reply #3 on: 2012/02/16, 18:31:41 »
I found that you must forget the usual Paypal dialogue that you see when buying something on line from say Amazon.

As far as I can remember I logged into my Paypal account and used the donation@ffis.de address as the payee. It wasn't difficult except for finding where to put the subject "siduction" which was resolved on the last page of the Paypal procedure where there is a subject box.

What did throw me somewhat was finding that the money had gone into a personal rather than a business account. But I took that on trust after reading devil's post.

Definitely not easy if you are not used to it.

Having worked for a local charity for 5 years I know from experience that people have 'busy lives' (actually mostly they're just lazy) and  if there isn't a quick and straight forward method of making a donation they don't donate.