Dan, I think Argus is right. When I collected for the wedding gifts I had to open a Paypal acct.. (wow...wonder if it's still active or I can remember pw's?!) anyway, one thing that I found out was if anyone pays with a credit card or your balance transfered in goes over $100 in a month you need the premier acct. I don't recall if 2% is the amount of the fees, it may be that now. I seem to recall it being 1.66 or some weird fraction and that amount is deducted from all transactions coming in...might only be those over $20, I'm not sure.. but Paypal can tell you. In fact if your acct gets more than $100 in a month or someone pays with the credit card, they'll email you about it!

Cloudy

your gift's on its way to you

and I'm off to the banners too

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Cloudbringer:
Dan, I think Argus is right. When I collected for the wedding gifts I had to open a Paypal acct.. (wow...wonder if it's still active or I can remember pw's?!) anyway, one thing that I found out was if anyone pays with a credit card or your balance transfered in goes over $100 in a month you need the premier acct. I don't recall if 2% is the amount of the fees, it may be that now. I seem to recall it being 1.66 or some weird fraction and that amount is deducted from all transactions coming in...might only be those over $20, I'm not sure.. but Paypal can tell you. In fact if your acct gets more than $100 in a month or someone pays with the credit card, they'll email you about it!

Cloudy<hr></blockquote>

The 2% or whatever it is though is only deducted from what you receive. As far as I could tell there's no upfront/fixed cost to worry about. I would suggest bumping up to premier...with 5000 members based around the world it might be the cheapest and most efficient way to manage donations.

do you need ballons??? I.. I've got loads of them :D

Joke! Must be really hard on you Ziroc.. We will all do what we can!

Let's not forget to click the ads while we're here.
Every little click helps.

Ziroc, how much money does it cost to run IW?
Just a bit curious

Do you only have to click on the ads, nothing else, cos in that case I'll just click away!!

I Would Love To Ziroc, But I have Hardly Any Money As It Is, And I Live WAAY Over Here In England! When Im Rich And Famous I'll Send You Lots!

Sent! I got a message saying that you might need to upgrade your account to accept it though.

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by MILAMBER:
Sent! I got a message saying that you might need to upgrade your account to accept it though.<hr></blockquote>


That's what I meant by there being a limitation on credit card orders. If you use a bank account, it will go through. I think the card feature is $100 a month. I thought it was per transaction, but it may be overall. I do know that I can send to multiple users though and there is a limit of $5000 in that respect (over 6 months). I am not a seller, just a buyer, so don't know it completely.

Yeah, I upgraded the account, I guess I don't mind 2% or whatever.. ;)

Thanks everyone!

Ok, I finally added that Donation link at the top of the page--Thanks Mem for the Idea--should really help!!

PS: For those that didn't want to use paypal, I also added my address.

Thanks!!!

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Ziroc:
Ok, I finally added that Donation link at the top of the page--Thanks Mem for the Idea--should really help!!

PS: For those that didn't want to use paypal, I also added my address.

Thanks!!!<hr></blockquote>

Looks very good, mate. I just used it and it works like a dream! [img]smile.gif[/img]

C'mon guys! Let's not let Z handle all the financial burden for us here. Chip in if you can! Let's make sure the place we love is guaranteed to stand the test of time. Every little bit counts, because little bits add up. [img]smile.gif[/img]

*Bump*

BUMPING again. C'mon guys, do you care if Ironworks survives? Do you not care if it goes offline if things get financially burdened? Heck, if everyone just sent in five bucks or so, it would add up and ultimately help.

Please don't take this forum for granted and think it will always be there for you when you need it, cause it takes money to make a complicated excellent site such as Ironworks, and it also takes money to handle all the members posting here, and there are THOUSANDS of members now.

I know many of you don't have much money, but a few dollars surely you can afford? Please donate something guys.!

just bumping this up to support this site

I'll get my pay soon, I'll see what I can scrape together [img]smile.gif[/img]
Meantime, how about making this a sticky thread?

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Sir ReGiN:
I'll get my pay soon, I'll see what I can scrape together [img]smile.gif[/img]
Meantime, how about making this a sticky thread?<hr></blockquote>

Yeah! keep it sticky until after Jan 1st! :D

Ziroc, I sent some money for you via Brenda aka. DragonMage (French cash that she took when she left France, she should send it to you soon).

Oh and before I forget, one of my friends suggested a pop-up window at the forum.
That way everybody contribute [img]smile.gif[/img]
(wether they like it or not ;) )

[img]graemlins/smilebounce.gif[/img] ing for Ziroc

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Sir ReGiN:
Oh and before I forget, one of my friends suggested a pop-up window at the forum.
That way everybody contribute [img]smile.gif[/img]
(wether they like it or not ;) )<hr></blockquote>

I like this idea, one single pop-up at the main forum page would be easy to click away and with all of the people here it would add up to quite a bit [img]smile.gif[/img]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Moiraine:
Ziroc, I sent some money for you via Brenda aka. DragonMage (French cash that she took when she left France, she should send it to you soon).<hr></blockquote>

Yes, Dan, the check went out in today's mail so you should have it by the end of the week. :D

It is combined from Moiraine, Ramon^3 and me. [img]graemlins/bighug.gif[/img]

Hang in there, hon. We love you. [img]smile.gif[/img]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by DragonMage:


Yes, Dan, the check went out in today's mail so you should have it by the end of the week. :D

It is combined from Moiraine, Ramon^3 and me. [img]graemlins/bighug.gif[/img]

Hang in there, hon. We love you. [img]smile.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

Thanks Brenda. [img]smile.gif[/img] *HUGS*

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Moiraine:
Thanks Brenda. [img]smile.gif[/img] *HUGS*<hr></blockquote>

*HUGS* to you, too, little French Gnome. ;) :D Anytime, hon. [img]graemlins/wavey.gif[/img]

And *HUGS* to you, Ziroc. ;) I just hope it helps. [img]smile.gif[/img]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by DragonMage:


Yes, Dan, the check went out in today's mail so you should have it by the end of the week. :D

It is combined from Moiraine, Ramon^3 and me. [img]graemlins/bighug.gif[/img]

Hang in there, hon. We love you. [img]smile.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>


Thanks you guys! It'll help for SURE! I'm so lucky to have friend like you guys. (guys = gals too!) :D

I'll let'cha know when it's here!! [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/bighug.gif[/img]

Everybody, if you can't contribute fine, but if you can you should. I mean we all come here and play and have fun and make friends and have a real sense of community. Sites like this are NOT free. Someone is footing the bill for what we have here and that is Z. I know that there are alot of students and teens on the board who can't contribute, but there are alot of people who are working too, who could give a little. And it really does add up. Seriously, with over 5,000 members, Z should never have to worry about having the money to keep the site going.

OK, Reeka, getting off her soap-box.

*hugs*

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Reeka:
Everybody, if you can't contribute fine, but if you can you should. I mean we all come here and play and have fun and make friends and have a real sense of community. Sites like this are NOT free. Someone is footing the bill for what we have here and that is Z. I know that there are alot of students and teens on the board who can't contribute, but there are alot of people who are working too, who could give a little. And it really does add up. Seriously, with over 5,000 members, Z should never have to worry about having the money to keep the site going.

OK, Reeka, getting off her soap-box.

*hugs*<hr></blockquote>

Just a small correction, even though we have 5000 members, I bet that at least half of them only registered to get 2 or 3 questions answered, left, and never returned, so we do in fact have a lot less members.

errr... what if I don't have a credit card :(

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Ziroc:



Thanks you guys! It'll help for SURE! I'm so lucky to have friend like you guys. (guys = gals too!) :D

I'll let'cha know when it's here!! [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/bighug.gif[/img] <hr></blockquote>

You're very welcome, Ziroc. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm sorry I couldn't send you the money I had promised last July - I have an online French bank, ya see, so neither a transfer nor a check nor getting cash were possible - or waaay too expensive. :( I want you to get the money, not our banks ! Thus when Brenda came, I grabbed the occasion to make it up with you.

This Board has been a very very important part of my life for the past year. There's no way I can send you enough money to reflect how great this Board is to me. [img]smile.gif[/img]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Avatar:
errr... what if I don't have a credit card :( <hr></blockquote>

keep clicking on his banners [img]smile.gif[/img] ;) it always helps

I'm Afraid I can't Donate

I have to donate to the "give Rikard food" fund first but somehow that money always goes somewhere else :(

for now i will just http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...milebounce.gif this [img]smile.gif[/img]