2007 donations already arriving...

DeVore

Just to let people know, there have already been a bunch of donations and yer cash is now sitting in the paypal account awaiting removal in time for the shopping spree!
All systems 100% green lighted!

Thank you for your generosity.


DeV.

Santa Claus

DeV,
A mate of mine works for a charity in the US and paypal waive their commision on money received by the charity through paypal.
Just a thought as I know they take between 3%-5% out of my ebay sales so maybe if there's a boardsie who works for paypal they could find out about this as I'm sure every little helps !!

DeVore

I'll look into this!

DeV.

Santa Claus

DeVore wrote: »

I'll look into this!

DeV.

Hey, if it means more money for the kiddies then it can only be a good thing. I know in the US you need to be a registered charity so might be the same here and you'd need a CHY number but worth checking anyway.

the_syco

The UK does it https://www.paypal.com/uk/charity

Orion

A mate got them to wave fees for personal fundraising for a disaster charity a couple of years ago. Talk nice to them.

Santa Claus

From a bit of digging on their site, here's what you need to do

Of course, if there was a paypal/eBay employee on boards who could fill them in on what SSF is then we'd be half way there. Perhaps they'd even like to make a nice big corporate donation

MattKid

If you know anywhere in the Galway area that could use a 25" Tv in good working order, as I'm buying a new tv this weekend.

oleras

DeV, Im trying to contribute but keep getting

This payment cannot be funded with a credit card at this time.

Any ideas ? And no, the wife has not maxed it out behind my back.....;)

oleras

oleras wrote: »

DeV, Im trying to contribute but keep getting Any ideas ? And no, the wife has not maxed it out behind my back.....;)

Sorted, tried it again this morning and worked fine.

DeVore

Weird, dunno what that was. Something to do with your card I expect, as others are getting through.

I'll action that charity waiver this week. thanks for doing the leg work!

DeV.

Just curious, how's it going this year?

DeVore

heheh, I just wrote an update early this morning about it. Its going great, we've topped 3k from online donations which is very good and we still have the poker tournie (on thursday) and the boards beers tonight still to produce donations.

Being a charity in Ireland is bloody hard I've discovered. Its almost impossible to be philanthropic in this country, the bureaucracy simply has a fit and explodes. For various reasons I have to become registered for vat, for example.
Vat, which we don't (and shouldn't) charge. We don't employ anyone, which makes PRSI/PAYE very suspicious, lol...
Try filling in online forms which say "number of employees" : 0
and see how far you get

DeV.

Agent Smith

will donations be acepted tonight?