Donation Request

**fathernitwit** · #1 01-09-2006, 04:56 PM

Folks,

The project has incurred a cost of $160 for a licences for the forum software and we would like to request donations from the community to help cover the costs. Doodman and I split the cost out of pocket. Please use the donations page on the main page to donate, it would be best to split any donation evenly between us.

Please make sure you are donating to one of the two devs, and not sourceforge itself.

Enough money to cover this expense has not been received. Thanks to all who donated, and sorry to all those who's donations were subverted by sourceforge, we are still trying to get that figured out.
Donors: gottasummer, solid11, cavedude, belfedia, rangerdown, BloodSpawn Server.

---- Purchase Information --------------------------------------------

Purchase ID: XXXXXX (Jan 09th '06 11:42pm)

- Existing License XXXXXX
--- Leased License Upgrade @ 160.00 USD (XXXXXX)

Total Order Value: 160.00 USD
Total Paid: 160.00 USD

Acolyte · #2 01-09-2006, 04:58 PM

$10 for a cool title!

Belfedia · #3 01-10-2006, 07:23 AM

$50 for your devoted work !

solid11 · #4 01-10-2006, 07:40 AM

I want a sticker for my shirt now that says I'm speshal =)

Keep up the great works guys.

typhoon · #5 01-10-2006, 08:09 AM

Dropped $20 last night.. let me know if you didn't get it.

gottasummer · #6 01-10-2006, 08:54 AM

I Dropped about $10 over the weekend to you, and my amount was not listed :(

Or maybe it was, because of the fees from SF and Paypal and all.

Anyway... if you need a copy of vBulletin... I recommend if you can, get the full license, I have yearly for one of my sites and its a pain in the ass.

Belfedia · #7 01-10-2006, 10:12 AM

Name not appear in list if you don't log on your SF account

like me

gottasummer · #8 01-10-2006, 10:18 AM

I appeared on this list, my SF account is bitblaster. I was the second person ever to donate... shame on you guys!

I donated without being asked

**fathernitwit** · #9 01-10-2006, 12:39 PM

Post updated.
Belfedia and typhoon, I do not see your guy's. PM me if you think it should have gone through and it did not, or if your having problems going through sourceforge.

typhoon · #10 01-12-2006, 07:16 AM

I think I may have found my problem, I wasn't logged in when I made my donation, but each time it said it was going to FNW...

** I e-mailed staff@sourceforge.net about this with both paypal invoice numbers, hopefully they will correct it and get you the $40.00. **

If that doesn't work, any other ideas of who to talk to? I looked all over sourceforge and couldn't find anything or anyone to talk to about it.

**fathernitwit** · #11 01-12-2006, 01:03 PM

well it looks like a lot of people make this mistake...
from looking at this page:
http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php
it seems like about 1/3 of the comments there make you think people were donating to a specific project (going quite a ways back), not source forge, but they got misled like so many people here. It is unfortunate. You could try to talk to paypal and report exactly what happened, sourceforge misled you into donating to them instead of your intended target. Especially the people who put eqemu in their comments, I think it would be bullshit of sourceforge not to refund it... But chances are, all they need to do is not reply to your email and theres prolly not much that can be done.

cannon · #12 01-12-2006, 02:24 PM

I donated but didnt see my name in the donation list. Like a previous post, im not concerned with my name showing, only that you got the donation. Here is what it said when I donated.

Thanks for donating US$5 to fathernitwitAccepting Donations. If you want your name (and comment) to appear on their public Supporters page, enter a comment in the provided field (up to 100 characters). If you do not wish to appear on the public Supporters page, leave the comment field blank. To proceed, click on the provided PayPal button.

Just noticed my donation is in the source forge supporters. Thats a ripoff. It plain as days says "Thanks for donating US$5 to fathernitwitAccepting Donations" yet the donation went to source forge. Looks like alot of other donations for other programs went there as well.

**fathernitwit** · #13 01-12-2006, 06:16 PM

that might explain why so many people appear to be making mistakes. Please please contact source forge with this information and see if they have anything to say. If they do not respond, contact paypal and report the fraud, because thats what it is.

Sarepean · #14 01-13-2006, 09:52 AM

"You all are doing a great job and are a service to all humanity" - Anonymous (Sourceforge Supporter List)

That was very obviously the comment of someone donating to the people that work on this project. =) Keep it up guys! You're a service to all humanity!

cannon · #15 01-27-2006, 05:20 AM

After just one day of filing a reversal at paypal. Sourceforge has refunded my money.

Where to donate now? still at sourceforge the right way or is there a paypal email ect. Thanks