Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $18.00 - via Visa - on 10/31/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $18.00
Your confirmation number is - 63920

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $27.00 - via Visa on 11/1/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $27.00
Your confirmation number is:63931

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $24.19 - via Visa on 11/1/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $24.19
Your confirmation number is - 63942

Thank you for your on going contributions Byron, but it makes me wonder if the merchant fees charged by the credit card companies are a flat fee or a percentage of each transaction.

Does anybody know?

Always by percentage of the total transaction - and sometimes an additional per transaction fee too.

My business accepts credit cards and they all operate the same.
Todd

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Always by percentage of the total transaction - and sometimes an additional per transaction fee too.

My business accepts credit cards and they all operate the same.
Todd

Universally both. First is a verification fee for checking that the card is good and giving the authorization number; the second is a percent of the transaction. There is also a minimum monthly fee but I'm sure that the Regents do more than the minimum.

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Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $10.46 - via Visa on 11/2/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $10.46
Your confirmation number is - 63954

Always by percentage of the total transaction - and sometimes an additional per transaction fee too.

My business accepts credit cards and they all operate the same.
Todd

Universally both. First is a verification fee for checking that the card is good and giving the authorization number; the second is a percent of the transaction. There is also a minimum monthly fee but I'm sure that the Regents do more than the minimum.

That's what I thought. I just wanted to point out to Byron that Seti@home would get more out of his donations if he made one large donation instead of several small donations that totaled up to equal the large donation.

It's not like the credit card companies need the transaction verification fees to survive.

Do you know this for a fact?

judging by his use of the word "probably" I'd say it's not a known fact.

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Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $23.78 - via Visa on 11/2/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $23.78
Your confirmation number is - 63965

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $23.78 - via Visa on 11/2/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $23.78
Your confirmation number is - 63965

Byron, I presume you have a system? Whatever it is.. I salute you!!

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Janice

thank you soft^spirit.

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $20.00 - via Visa on 11/3/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $20.00
Your confirmation number is - 63971

dude got himself banned again

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Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $30.00 - via Visa on 11/3/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $30.00
Your confirmation number is - 63978

Thank you Justin for working on this in my absence. Byron, I had to take the last stat from Justin, to be able to bring this up todate.

I do have a couple of questions. I just noticed Donald L. Johnson had two different donation confirmation numbers. So I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and add another $50 to his account.
Byron you show two different amounts in one of your posts. $105 and $125 I will take the higher figure, until I hear differently from you.

Neal, see my PM

$55 msattler
$550 Helli
$100 ryeomans
$50 Dorphas
$100 MJS
$10 SciManStev
$200 JohnDK
$20 jason_gee
$100 Geek@Play
$20 Niteryder
$100 Fourmyle of Ceres
$100 bill
$50 RoosStar
$20 perryjay
$175 Clifton L. Harding Jr.
$50 Albireo380
$75 dnolan
$2,175 MarkJ
$50 Bernie Vine
$100 rebest
$100 S@NL - Fred - www.efmer.eu/boinc
$50 Big Don
$1,437 Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan
$300 samuel7
$30 Silje
$100 Klurt
$150 Magnet
$25 Robert Ribbeck
$124.75 Zebra3
$200 soft^spirit
$100 Rabbit&Carrot
$25 gomeyer
$25 Tony DeBari
$50 Eve - Pyro nl
$20 Anthony Coleman
$250 Roman Wagner
$35 Chris S
$50.25 razamatraz
$25 Frizz
$25 dan
$25 tnmjr99a
$25 arkayn
$20 _heinz
$50 Eewec
$25 Philhnnss
$100 Anthony G. Todd
$108 Justin M. Morford
$250 RWZeitgeist
$15 SockGap
$50 Bearcat
$100 Donald L. Johnson
$20 Arjant2
$500 Orioneti
$50 Ingrid Brouwer
$50 The_bestest
$100 Thomas Arnold
$10 John
$200 David Anderson
$200 J. Mileski
$100 James Sotherden
$100 Egad Ivegoninsane
$50 yank
$12 VW Bobier
$50 Blake Bonkofsky
$50 Ocna
$15 CLYDE
$40 Area 51
$50 Terry & Laura
$20 Dean Sheaffer
$200 Claggy
$100 WendyR
$100 dcappello
$25 119FWMXS
$10 MJKelleher
$2,175 -ShEm-
$50 CHARLES JACKSON
$50 Spectrum
$25 Fuzzy53
$25 JimHilty2
$100 Tom Mehrens
$15 APCyberax
$25 [DPC] hansR
$10 Zeus Fab3r
$215 Doug vE
$25 KWSN - Xfer.cns
$10 Mike Bader
$300 Tony Baczynski
$50 Xeltrix
$10 Francis Noel
$100 Frederic Salve
$50 Lutz66
$50 Neal Chantrill
$175 Al
$250 PT
$250 owensse
$10 Eric Bigham
$10 B-Man
$50 tbret

Ok I come up with a total of $14,047.

Next time, I will just have to start a proper spreadsheet right from the get go.

Thank you all so much.

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Thank you Justin for working on this in my absence. Byron, I had to take the last stat from Justin, to be able to bring this up todate.

I do have a couple of questions. I just noticed Donald L. Johnson had two different donation confirmation numbers. So I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and add another $50 to his account.

Uli, if it makes a difference, I donated $50 in September to the "Oscar" drive, and then $50 in October to the "Mork Replacement" drive. At one point we were keeping the tallies separate.

Once I get some of the bills paid down, I'll probably be back with another donation - before Christmas I hope.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

thank you uli.

Dear Byron - Thank you for your gift of $40.00 - via Visa on 11/4/2010
Your gift was assigned to the following areas - SETI@home - $40.00
Your confirmation number is - 63991