[Negative Logic] Paypal locks somethingawful.com’s Katrina relief DONATION account!
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KAS
Sep 4, 2005, 11:32:53 PM9/4/05
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After seven hours of donations pouring in they had $19,149 then Paypal locked the donation account…
Somethingawful is one of the internets largest communities. Its main site is currently down because its server just happened to be located in New Orleans. The owner nicknamed “Lowtax”, decided to help out. The SA (SomethingAwful) community isn’t new to helping out. They have previously raised 22,000 dollars to get armor plating for our US soldiers. Another 6 grand was raised and donated to buy toys for children with fatal diseases in hospitals.
After seven hours of donations pouring in Somethingawful had $19,149 then Paypal locked the donation account. That’s more then three thousand an hour. The reason for the locked account? Well this may be a shocker “We have received more then one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers”. Wait a second, they aren’t selling anything! Not only did that successfully stop the thousands pouring in every hour but it jeopardized that the money would even reach the Red Cross.
The plan was to raise awareness, have people donate, send them free merchandise and donate all the money to the Red Cross. The only reason SA used Paypal was to get shipping addresses to send the free merchandise. Not only was SA going to pay for the free stuff but Lowtax donated three thousand out of his own pocket. All Lowtax wanted to do was donate the money to the Red Cross. So he requested that Paypal donate all the money in his still locked account to the Red Cross. That sounds easy enough, right? Nope! Paypal claims it can only donate through United Way. Lowtax and the SA community objected to letting this happen. United Way has a less then perfect reputation, only receiving two stars on charitynavigator. The smart, humane, sensible thing for Paypal to do was to unlock the account and/or donate all the money to the Red Cross. Instead they choose another path, an appalling path. The account remained locked with little costumer support and few options. In the end all the money was refunded to the donators. The SA donation run never saw its full potential because of Paypal. I urge everyone to stop using Paypal after what they did. After all Paypal sucks!
Please spread the word!
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Posted by KAS to Negative Logic at 9/04/2005 08:32:51 PM
Somethingawful is one of the internets largest communities. Its main site is currently down because its server just happened to be located in New Orleans. The owner nicknamed “Lowtax”, decided to help out. The SA (SomethingAwful) community isn’t new to helping out. They have previously raised 22,000 dollars to get armor plating for our US soldiers. Another 6 grand was raised and donated to buy toys for children with fatal diseases in hospitals.
After seven hours of donations pouring in Somethingawful had $19,149 then Paypal locked the donation account. That’s more then three thousand an hour. The reason for the locked account? Well this may be a shocker “We have received more then one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers”. Wait a second, they aren’t selling anything! Not only did that successfully stop the thousands pouring in every hour but it jeopardized that the money would even reach the Red Cross.
The plan was to raise awareness, have people donate, send them free merchandise and donate all the money to the Red Cross. The only reason SA used Paypal was to get shipping addresses to send the free merchandise. Not only was SA going to pay for the free stuff but Lowtax donated three thousand out of his own pocket. All Lowtax wanted to do was donate the money to the Red Cross. So he requested that Paypal donate all the money in his still locked account to the Red Cross. That sounds easy enough, right? Nope! Paypal claims it can only donate through United Way. Lowtax and the SA community objected to letting this happen. United Way has a less then perfect reputation, only receiving two stars on charitynavigator. The smart, humane, sensible thing for Paypal to do was to unlock the account and/or donate all the money to the Red Cross. Instead they choose another path, an appalling path. The account remained locked with little costumer support and few options. In the end all the money was refunded to the donators. The SA donation run never saw its full potential because of Paypal. I urge everyone to stop using Paypal after what they did. After all Paypal sucks!
Please spread the word!
Discuss this!
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Posted by KAS to Negative Logic at 9/04/2005 08:32:51 PM
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