You could meet Pescado in a dark alley with a suitcase full of cash, or...
Hecubus:
I've been helping Pescado set up the Cheezeserver fundraising mechanism for this year; as many of you know, we had a horrible experience with PayPal in 2006, and it took a year to recoup the money. Hence, Pescado (and many of us) are loathe to go with them again to raise the $2500 needed this year.
We've been searching for alternatives to PayPal, but for various reasons, either the alternatives are dead, not open to US customers, or completely dodgy. One option we explored was so awful it makes meeting in dark alleys and exchanging suitcases of money sound HONEST.
Thus, I've been asked to pose the question to you: should we accept that PayPal is the behemoth of online money transactions and hope for the best? Should we open a post office box somewhere, have you mail money in and we'll manually process the checks and money orders? Should we offer both options? Or do you know of something we might not have found that doesn't have exorbitant fees and doesn't make us feel dirty (and allows for US customers)?
KellyQ:
While I've never had any cause to use it, have you checked into using Western Union?
J. M. Pescado:
I think the fees on that are positively murderous when transferring small sums.
Lorelei:
One kooky idea would be offering merch with a high mark-up via Cafe Press or some such.
The poor can afford a sticker. The better-off can afford a t-shirt or other stuff.
Checks go out after payment is processed and return deadline has passed. You get every penny of the price you set over the base price of the objects.
There are enough artsy types here to make designs and donate them to the cause.
HomeschooledByTards:
Quote from: Lorelei on 2008 August 07, 16:43:47
One kooky idea would be offering merch with a high mark-up via Cafe Press or some such.
The poor can afford a sticker. The better-off can afford a t-shirt or other stuff.
An anti comic sans store that doesn't use comic sans for their font?
I'd love a MATY t-shirt or a bumper sticker.
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