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March 27, 2008

Paypal & Donation Jar

Thanks to advice from Sue and Lee, I've tweaked the donation button so that it once again prompts you about how much you want to donate.

I've had confirmation from Rebecca of the Alzheimer's Research Trust that the bulk of the money ( $6464 ) has been transferred to the Alzheimer's paypal account ( Paypal Unique Transaction ID #8KA746512R368904G ). They can't access it yet because their bank account details are still being confirmed.

On other Paypal news, it appears I am a suspected money launder because of the sudden influx of money into my long dormant account. This means jumping through a few hoops and providing some documentation in order to show that I'm a real human being. One thing they have been repeatedly asking for is a "Subordination letter from the parent organization". I've explained that there is no parent organization but they don't seem interested. Does anyone know what they actually want?

Posted by Chris Tregenza at 10:10 AM |

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CE Murphy

I'd ask the ART to provide you with a letter saying "This nice person is running a fundraiser for us and we are happy to provide documentation showing that all the money that's suddenly come into his account has come to our very legitimate research trust."

Or, you know, words to that effect. :)

-Catie

Posted by: CE Murphy | March 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM

Sue

The nice thing about PayPal is that you can actually phone them: click the "contact" link from the bottom of any PayPal page and you can get an actual phone number. I'd give them a ring and find out what they want; you're more likely to get sense that way than through email. Though I think Catie is probably right.

Posted by: Sue | March 27, 2008 at 10:54 AM

k

They want to know about matchitforpratchett- Basically they want to know if it's official ART fundraiser/organisation.

Posted by: k | March 27, 2008 at 01:22 PM

k

They want to know about matchitforpratchett- Basically they want to know if it's official ART fundraiser/organisation.

Posted by: k | March 27, 2008 at 01:23 PM

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