In response to whoever said the likelihood is that you'll get funding from
.1% of members each of whom contributes more than $1, personally speaking,
the value I've gotten out of this group (as a noob to oscopes and
electronics) greatly exceeds the amounts we're discussing here. I will
gladly contribute $1 if getting $1 from 100 members works. But if in
the end, it's just
a whole lot easier to go to the .1%, please put me down for whatever is needed
up to the full amount (at least for the next turn of the crank if not longer.
I'm not interested in credit. Just more of the same education
and help that I've been getting and which would have cost significantly more
than $100 to acquire anywhere else.
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On May 1, 2018 1:43:24 PM "Artekmedia" <manuals@...> wrote:
I don think you can sell a "membership" on Ebay. As I recall the rules
state that it must be a physical item that ships via UPS, USPS or FEDEX
as an example. I know they wont let me sell "downloads" ..gotta be a CD
... as an example. Even at $1 eBay collects a listing fee and commission
fee for every sale plus the PayPal tax so you can end up sending 20% or
more of your "sales" into the bonus plans for the senior pirates at Ebay
Corporate
-DC
manuals@...
On 5/1/2018 1:22 PM, Jack Reynolds wrote:
I believe that Stefan has hit the nail on the head twice as shown below:
The"contributing membership" thing can be an annual event whenever the
bill is about to come due. Therefore it could be done by either
Dennis or Michael. Raise the cost of a membership to $5 so that
whoever is collecting it can deal with a minimal no. of eBay
responses. Make the first year sufficient to cover what has already
been paid and the coming year as well as eBay and Paypal fees.
Contributors will receive a confirmation from Paypal with no hassle
for Dennis or Michael. If there are people who need recognition on
the list for their contribution, DON"t BOTHER! Save the bandwidth for
something important like Jerry's bull and electric fence controller!
There will be no excess funds to deal with. The annual free for all
to get one of the "contributing memberships" will be something to look
forward to. It will be open to all who use eBay and Paypal already
and that likely is a very large majority(despite all of the acid
remarks about eBay!). The eBay posting will make it obvious to
everyone the total which is being collected by the no. of shares
offered and the cost. (Think of it in terms of Ohm's Law)
Jack Reynolds
On 5/1/2018 12:40 PM, stefan_trethan wrote:
Now I don't have a problem with that, if you guys want to sponsor this
thing for the rest of us that's fine.
But Dennis seems to have a bad case of the decency. Probably caught it
from his parents, quite easy to pass on if you aren't careful. Luckily
it's not fatal, only instills this weird craving for fairness. You'll
also die poorer and obviously can't ever have a job in politics, sorry
'bout that.
ST
Maybe you can simply sell 150 "contributing memberships" on Ebay as $1
buy it now items and if someone wants to donate say $10 they can just
pick up 10 pcs? This would cap the funds coming in and almost
auto-generate a list.
Patreon or any of the countless gofundme type of sites would likely
work too, but I don't really want to singn up somewhere new. I expect
most members use Ebay already.
I don't think anyone is too concerned about fees or what happens to
excess money, the goal is to reimburse you with the least hassle for
you, but I understand why you do not want to be saddled with a large
sum that you don't know what to do with.
--
Dave
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