Donation vs fee

[MP Guy]

Well my strawman did not work out very well in regards to who would be willing to pay a small fee for the gallery. Many people suggested a donation link instead. As long as I run this site there will NEVER be a fee to the members. I do this out of my own passion for rangefinders and photography. I have taken your suggestions and have created a donation link on the main page.

 

[RML]

Are you sure it links to the right person? I end up with Home Theater Discussion, which isn't quite RFF or DSLRX....

 

[taffer]

Remy, Home Theater Discussion was founded by Jorge as well 🙂

I think the donate link may be a good idea, do you take paypal ? 😀

Oscar

PS: yes I see that INDEED the link is paypal, hehe. Never read without your glasses.

 

[Pherdinand]

Yes, i am curious too. I like that it accepts paypal and will click as soon as i know there's no mistake🙂

 

[MP Guy]

Yes HTD is the very first site I started. I am in the process of changing that name to Jorge Torralba so it is less confusing.

 

[Pherdinand]

"Shipping & Handling: $34.00 USD "
😱 😱 😱
why is that? And do i really need a credit card?? Can't i do it just from my paypal funds, like an ebay auction? I plan to donate half of the funds i have 😀 but that's less than the shipping and handling fee...

 

[MP Guy]

what ?????? !#@#@# hold on that is wrong !!!!!!

 

[MP Guy]

Fixed. Sorry about that. Thanks for your support!

Jorge

PS: Manolo,
The band width is $200.00 month and the hardware was about $6,000.00. Does not include software,

Donations stop me from having to seek out advertisers and keeps the site unbiased.

 

[Pherdinand]

Jorge - not fixed... still the same. I know it should be possible to make it straight easy and free of charge - Photo.net has that version. But here i still have to enter credit card info (which i don't have) and pay a 34$fee...

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Same here; wants a $34 shipping and handling fee. Jorge, what is you paypal account number and we can do this the old fashioned way.

 

[back alley]

can i send a money order?

i don't use credit cards and therefore don't have a paypal account either.

joe

 

[MP Guy]

darn it hold on. this is terrible.

 

[MP Guy]

Figured it out. It automatically would put in a shipping charge based on the amount of the transaction. I have set all those charges to 0.00 and tested it myself. Seems to be working now. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the support.

 

[rover]

Yup, working fine now guys.

 

[JohnM]

Done.

 

[Peter]

Just completed the transaction. Thanks Jorge for all the hardwork for the past 1 year. 🙂

 

[RML]

OK, just out of curiosity... how much are we donating? I don't want to look too cheap and I don't want to rub Jorge the wrong way. It's difficult to put a value on something so intangible as a website. So I have a hard time deciding what would be a fair amount.

Any suggestions?

 

[JohnM]

You'll never look cheap making a donation.

For me, it was helpful to think of my donation as a honor-system subscription.

A lot of of us subscribe to Popular Photography and willingly pony up $12 a year for it. That's a buck a month - I enjoy this site much more than I do Pop Photo, so I used a multiple of that. I also scheduled a reminder to myself to "re-up" my "subscription" to rangefinderforum.com on a set date.

I co-own and maintain two very active websites and know what it's like to consider donations, subscriptions and the like to keep the lights on - I think our host will be appreciative of whatever you see fit to kick in.

 

[Peter]

I am thinking of making a scheduled contribution of every 3 months. If each contribution one donates $10 that will be $40 per year. But I would think that is up to the individual to make the decision on how much the donation would be.

 

[taffer]

Done, I still think it's a very small amount compared to what this forum has done for me 🙂