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YO guys, how long does a payment by PAYPAL take to come off my Visa card, I clicked on make a donation 4 days ago but the $20 dollars has so far not been debited from my account.?
P.S. Do I need to create a paypal account.? or was I right the first time by clicking make a donation.?
p.p.s I have a debit card can i still make a donation with paypal.? :-0
[ This Message was edited by: MaximusPhonicus on 2002-12-16 10:31 ]
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Posted: 2002-12-15 19:55:00
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Maybe the problem is because Internet is too expensive !
A forum about high speed internet have been sold to TISCALI in Switzerland, because the passionate guy who did it was drawn by success.
Another forum, about mobile phones (http://www.mobilemag.ch) has almost been closed for same reason, and has just been saved, I don't know exactly how.
Laffen, can't you use some major group, or community like MSN or Yahoo ? They would probably be glad to have such an important forum... Won't they ?
Hope you'll find a way. I'm a bit scared with my own web site (classified ads). It has not yet a lot of success (450 visitors a day), but if, for any reason, traffic grows up, I will easily be in the same situation.
I will you good luck, and hope that Sony Ericsson will react. I'll send a mail in switzerland too.
Cheers
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Posted: 2002-12-17 00:34:00
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Although registered for quite some time I have not been an active participant. It looks as though I have missed much. Your problems are pretty much the same as most small independant sites of this nature. Click Ads are a nice addition, but they dont generate nearly the revenue they did 7-8 yrs ago and certainly wont be able to don anything to save you in the short period of time you have. I respect the input that WUZ gave, right at the beginning. You need operating capital NOW. You can write all the letters and come up with all the "great ideas", but your vendors, your Bandwith Providers want CASH now or soon. And the fastest and easiest are the people that use and benefit from the site, The members and the lurkers. And they have to wake up or lose it. And $800+ income means, maybe 40 people have given $20. Not gonna make it. In closing, I have noticed that many in this thread have stated that PayPal is not available at their location. May I recommend CITIBANK's C2it program. Its big and its very international. Worth a look at it.
www.c2it.com. There is also many European based companies. If you arent inclined or have the time, drop me a line and I'll be glad to look for you. I wish you the best of luck. Unfortunately , the bottom line is what others have found out over the years, YOU CANT GIVE IT AWAY ANYMORE! Good luck and I hope you can pull it out, sounds like you deserve it.
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Posted: 2002-12-17 06:11:00
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close down?... no way we must all do something.
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Posted: 2002-12-17 09:17:00
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Thanks for a superb site, there's no-where else like it!!
I've made a donation of $20, hope it helps!
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Posted: 2002-12-17 13:14:00
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it's great to see new posters joining in with the effort.
welcome to the community mate.
together we'll survive.
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Posted: 2002-12-17 15:11:00
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On 2002-12-17 09:17, galano wrote:
close down?... no way we must all do something.
donations button is top left mate
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Posted: 2002-12-17 15:12:00
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@laffen
Will be looking to make another donation at end of month (after payday again!). Have you set anything up yet for regular subscription payments?
How we doing money wise? How much breathing space have we bought?
Must keep this site going especially with the P800 due. Will need to read a lot about this phone before I give up my T68 and iPAQ.
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Posted: 2002-12-18 00:03:00
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I am willing to pay .. but I dun have a credit card nor I think Singapore supports paypal ...
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Posted: 2002-12-18 20:13:00
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Current balance is now $1216. Thanks to all who has donated so far. We have got our hands on a
HBH-10 
which we will give out to one of the donators. I have also thought of letting members which donate before December 30th have access to new services here at Esato. Some of these may include: New topics from WAP, possibility to upload images in posts, closed VIP forum, reply to PM via WAP, P800 friendly forum layout and more.
It's never too late
[ This Message was edited by: laffen on 2002-12-18 21:03 ]
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Posted: 2002-12-18 22:02:00
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