Re: PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO
At the risk of extending this engrossing
conversation further ... you can send
money via Friends and Family. The
Sender pays the Fees.
73, Dick, W1KSZ
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Richard Solomon <dickw1ksz@...>
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Re: PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO
You pay listing fees? I get a number of free ones every month. Final value fees are 10% tho. Perhaps the PP donate button is the better bet tho with those restrictions.
Vince.
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Vince Vielhaber
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Re: PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO
I am a bit surprised that no one has mentioned Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/) as a donation management solution. They accept PayPal as well as credit cards. Another donation broker platform is
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guy.r.thomas
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Perhaps the valuable digital item needs to be a scan of a Thank You card!
Jack
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Jack Reynolds
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ST
Your right :-)
If I was willing to jump through all the hoops Evil-Bay would recognize and allow me to sell downloads for some manufacturers manuals for which we have hard copy licenses and
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Dave / NR1DX
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Re: PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO
Hi Dennis,
How do we reply just to you??
73,
Bill, WA2DVU
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Bill Riches
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Well, perhaps Ebay didn't agree that you hold any copyright to those
Manuals Dave. ;-)
Just pulling your chain! Please let's not get into that again.
Looks like the Ebay policy is quite restrictive
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stefan_trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
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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
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David Berlind
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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"
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Dave / NR1DX
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I sent a message to groups.io to ask if they will be banker.
I did NOT mention TekScopes in my message to them.? I will
report back here when they reply.
The concept is groups .io accepts PayPal
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Larry DeVito
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Re: PAYING FOR GROUPS.IO
[email protected]> wrote:
+1 for PayPal "Donate" or something like it, and +1 for simplicity. Having
donations to cover a few years running of the group sounds quite sane.
Perhaps groups.io will
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Sigur?ur ?sgeirsson
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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
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Jack Reynolds
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I have been reading and glad I waited to chime in, my initial thoughts are just as Rick stated.
KISS principle.? Having been treasurer for a few groups in the past, Rick is pretty much on the
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Ren¨¦e
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I'm sure they already have all that and more, it's a Paypal company.
#2 Just says you need a US phone that can do text messages.
Probably how the money transfer works, I've heard of a similar
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stefan_trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
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Vince
I happen to be in the NON -excluded group .. I would just like to know ST's #2. I have a lot of (good) experience with ST's opinion and past judgement. Next time I will be more direct about WHO
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Dave / NR1DX
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If this method is chosen, I can offer up web space. I already do webhosting so the servers are already there and running.
Vince.
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Mi
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Vince Vielhaber
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The PayPal "Donate" button is a simple and effective method. https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/fundraising All you need to do is find a place to host that donate button and tell members where it
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machineguy59
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Don't need #2, #1 excludes a large portion of the group.
Vince.
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Vince Vielhaber
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And #2 ???
Do they collect ANY personal information ? Name? Address? Bank or Credit card number?
-DC
manuals@...
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Dave / NR1DX
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So far I think this is the best idea. If someone doesn't do ebay they can always get an ebay gift card, I've seen those at the grocery store. This idea is simple, easy to do and accomplishes the task
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Vince Vielhaber
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