[Theforum] community vs. corporations (was: funding options)

[Lachlan Cannon]

Marlene Bruce said:
> Hi Lach,

>
>>I also have no
>>way of actually making a payment apart from mailing money over, which
>>is of course, hardly practical.
>
> Forgive me for prying into your personal finances, but does this mean
> you don't have a bank account? One doesn't need a credit card to use
> PayPal. I only ask because it raises an issue I hadn't previously
> considered: How will people without bank accounts give us gifts? We
> can't expect people to pay for a money order if they're only making a
> small donation.

I do have a bamk account which could be used, but it usually has very little
money in it, as it's just used to temporarily store money before moving it
to award saver. Also, considering what John said about paypal and
international accounts, we probably need to find some other way for intl
people to pay.


> This is an interesting idea. Is this like people who do a 5K run for a
> charity ... sponsorship, except by only one sponsor instead of a group
> of sponsors?

Basically, yeah. I suppose you could also, if you wanted, make someone able
to be sponsored by a corp - the corp could work out details with the member,
such as a 'supported by ibm' (or whatever) badge on every page of their
account. Dunno whether that's a good idea or not though.


Lach
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