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Message 468386 - Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 20:58:59 UTC
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I don't feel like filling out that big ol' form.

https://colt.berkeley.edu/egiving/mainform.asp

Paypal = Click, Login, Enter Number, Click.

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Message 468434 - Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 21:31:46 UTC

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.

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Message 468435 - Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 21:31:59 UTC

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.


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Message 468438 - Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 21:36:20 UTC

keep the good ideas coming though
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Message 468459 - Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 22:07:51 UTC

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). :-)

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Message 468557 - Posted: 29 Nov 2006, 23:57:29 UTC - in response to Message 468446.  

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.

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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? :) )
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Message 468581 - Posted: 30 Nov 2006, 0:30:19 UTC - in response to Message 468446.  

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.

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Message 468630 - Posted: 30 Nov 2006, 1:46:24 UTC - in response to Message 468581.  

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.

Umm, that is an enormous tax liability for Matt.


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Message 468898 - Posted: 30 Nov 2006, 12:37:15 UTC - in response to Message 468386.  

I don't feel like filling out that big ol' form.

https://colt.berkeley.edu/egiving/mainform.asp

Paypal = Click, Login, Enter Number, Click.


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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