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I want Paypal-equivilant easiness for donations
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Alinator Send message Joined: 19 Apr 05 Posts: 4178 Credit: 4,647,982 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I'm sure the project would too and they did look into it, but various political, proceedural, and policy issues made it a non-viable option for them. Alinator |
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They tried, but because the school is a Not For Profit, and the costs of the Paypal account, etc. are not feasible. They would have to have a separate checking account just for the Paypal. It's not going to happen. ![]() My movie https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/502242 |
Astro ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Apr 02 Posts: 8026 Credit: 600,015 RAC: 0 |
keep the good ideas coming though |
Alinator Send message Joined: 19 Apr 05 Posts: 4178 Credit: 4,647,982 RAC: 0 ![]() |
LOL... Didn't know you actually went that far! PPP will kill you every time (and we're not talking Point-to-Point Protocol here). :-) Alinator |
Dereka_k Send message Joined: 20 Apr 00 Posts: 82 Credit: 549,979 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Trust me.. I'm rather annoyed that we are unable to utilize Paypal. I even had all the code in place to do so, but the bureaucratic hoops to jump through made it impossible. The University is a large entity with many legal/fiscal protection mechanisms in place, and Paypal doesn't fit in with their big picture... yet. Thanks Matt, I hope this gets works out. I'd like to be able to use Paypal to support Seti as well. Good things come to those who wait... (alien signals maybe? :) ) D. |
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Trust me.. I'm rather annoyed that we are unable to utilize Paypal. I even had all the code in place to do so, but the bureaucratic hoops to jump through made it impossible. The University is a large entity with many legal/fiscal protection mechanisms in place, and Paypal doesn't fit in with their big picture... yet. - Matt Hey, just do it to you and then you send the money to Boinc. We trust you. ![]() |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Trust me.. I'm rather annoyed that we are unable to utilize Paypal. I even had all the code in place to do so, but the bureaucratic hoops to jump through made it impossible. The University is a large entity with many legal/fiscal protection mechanisms in place, and Paypal doesn't fit in with their big picture... yet. - Matt Umm, that is an enormous tax liability for Matt. ![]() ![]() BOINC WIKI |
tombew Send message Joined: 12 Apr 00 Posts: 111 Credit: 12,182,261 RAC: 0 ![]() |
I don't feel like filling out that big ol' form. As a possible workaround, you might consider letting "form filling" software fill in the Seti-Donate for. RoboForm does a pretty good job of filling in the form - I only have to add/correct a couple of fields (and I probably could customize RoboForm to fix this if I took the time. I have also used CitiBank "Virtual Account Number" software (kind of a 1-time-use Credit Card number that is billed to your "ral" CC number). Tis will fill in the form OK, but will only fill in the "virtual" number in IEm not FireFox. In FireFox, the user has to manually fill in the CC number. I havenever looked for free Form-Filling Softwarem but it would not surprise me if it existed...... |
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