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Post by Rhubarb on Feb 25, 2021 0:03:37 GMT 1
Hi all.
You will have received a message asking for donations.
IGNORE IT
They don't accept paypal. It's in dollars and checkcard.swipe or whatever it's called has some iffy feedback.
I have messaged an Admin on the Proboards support forum about this.
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Post by Noberator on Feb 25, 2021 0:12:04 GMT 1
Hi all. You will have received a message asking for donations. IGNORE IT They don't accept paypal. It's in dollars and checkcard.swipe or whatever it's called has some iffy feedback. I have messaged an Admin on the Proboards support forum about this. I thought it was iffy hence me being uncomfortable with it.  Didn't somebody say they had made a payment before you deleted the other thread.  |
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Post by studabear on Feb 25, 2021 0:17:30 GMT 1
Valhalla said he had.
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Post by Rhubarb on Feb 25, 2021 0:22:15 GMT 1
Hi all. You will have received a message asking for donations. IGNORE IT They don't accept paypal. It's in dollars and checkcard.swipe or whatever it's called has some iffy feedback. I have messaged an Admin on the Proboards support forum about this. I thought it was iffy hence me being uncomfortable with it. Didn't somebody say they had made a payment before you deleted the other thread. Yes some Google feedback looked iffy. On the Proboards support forum at least 2 forum owners have donated through that system with no issues. I'm locking this thread and will re-open it when I hear back from the support team |
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Post by Noberator on Feb 25, 2021 0:32:14 GMT 1
I thought it was iffy hence me being uncomfortable with it. Didn't somebody say they had made a payment before you deleted the other thread. Yes some Google feedback looked iffy. On the Proboards support forum at least 2 forum owners have donated through that system with no issues. I'm locking this thread and will re-open it when I hear back from the support team Might be worth a PM to Valhalla Si just to keep him in the picture to see if he can withdraw his donation.  |
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Post by Rhubarb on Feb 25, 2021 10:11:20 GMT 1
I have received a reply from Proboards support team: Stripe is a major multi-million dollar payment processing company that we use. They are extremely reputable. See stripe.com for more details Hope this gives peace of mind  |
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Post by remmington on Feb 25, 2021 10:36:47 GMT 1
I am gonna donate. This ProBoards has been free - it works! Can it be noted as well: Rhubarb has been clearing/cleaning up our forum every six months or so data wise - to keep it free! (Cost free I mean not empty of data - well both if you think about it) A big thank you Simon - from all of us!  |
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Post by Noberator on Feb 25, 2021 12:34:05 GMT 1
Are members still getting Ads on their online devices?  I am and I would think most members are and this is how they make their income from. Ok adverts may be less than before the Covid outbreak but I'm still getting quite a few showing up on my laptop. |
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Post by Karl on Feb 25, 2021 14:20:27 GMT 1
I use a phone app for the forum
Not too bad for advertising
You can pay to have no adverts
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Post by valhalla on Feb 25, 2021 23:54:45 GMT 1
The donation I made appears to be fine : $5.00 was correctly translated to roughly £3.65, and that appears kosher on my card as-of this morning. I checked as soon as Rhubarb pm'd me to query this.
I have had dealings with "Stripe" before, and would agree they are big and reliable - many of my business transactions are handled this way.
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Post by studabear on Mar 4, 2021 23:02:25 GMT 1
I've just signed up to the $5 monthly donation.
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Post by valhalla on Aug 12, 2021 0:57:09 GMT 1
I have just un-signed from the $5.00 monthly subscription;
It seems that despite contributing directly to ProBoards, they didn't want to link this gesture to removing ads from my browsing - I run an Ad-Blocker anyway - and I still kept getting messages from ProBoards about paying a further $2.99/month to have these properly removed.
Given that I'm shelling-out circa £3.40/month to support the forum, I had hoped that there would be some recognition from ProBoards, but once again, just greedy Americans on the "take" as usual.........so I have cancelled the donations.  |
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