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I'd love to begin making small monthly payments to the EFF, but here's my hurdle: I don't like authorizing anybody (not even the EFF) to charge my VISA more tha
by homeomorphic 13y ago
I'd love to begin making small monthly payments to the EFF, but here's my hurdle: I don't like authorizing anybody (not even the EFF) to charge my VISA more than once. And I don't like having PayPal take a cut when the money's going to a charity.
In my home country, I do regular donations to charities by setting up an automated transfer in my bank, hence "pushing" the money. I prefer having nothing "pulled", even by such privacy oriented a group as the EFF. Is there any solution to this problem internationally? A monthly e-mail linking to a payment page (using VISA, for example) would count as a crude but satisfactory solution!
- jrockway 13y agoI'm sure if you have your bank mail them a check every month, they'll cash it.
- homeomorphic 13y agoHaha, sometimes the US-European disconnect is very cute. I mean no offense, but checks went out of use in my country like 20 years ago. (Anectodally, they can still be cashed, for a service fee of $30 or so). Oh, and mailing something to the US would alone be more than PayPal's cut.
- jrockway 13y agoSo your banking system has no way of giving money to an organization you want to support, and you're calling us "very cute"? That makes a lot of sense.
- homeomorphic 13y agoOh, no, of course I can. Charities/businesses publish account numbers and I push the money.
- antoviaque 13y agoYou can donate through Flattr, too: https://flattr.com/profile/EFF https://flattr.com/profile/EFF
- homeomorphic 13y agoNice! Do you know how much of a cut Flattr takes? Wikipedia suggests 10%, which is just too much. Hey, EFF, if you ever read this: An option for being sent an email monthly with a link to a one-click payment of the same amount as last month would get people like me donating!
- antoviaque 13y agoI've read 10% too, yes. I don't think that's too much though. It's not just a tool to donate, they provide the infrastructure for an alternative model to earning a living online. Their approach replaces the incentive to create artificial scarcity by an incentive to share. I would love to live in a society that worked like this. Try to put some credit on a flattr account and donate to a few projects you like, I think you will get a better feel of what I meant. : )
- nodata 13y ago> which is just too much. Compared to what? Surely the competition? For micropayments they're cheap.
- waqf 13y agoSet aside the money every month, then make one lump donation?