Autoshite forum funding

[richardmorris]

Done.

[666jjp]

pp ff 👍

[High Jetter]

43 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Done.

You don't get that with PP

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

You don't get that with PP

That was paying with PayPal. I didn’t read down the post, and notice that there was still a PayPal direct option. I’ve done kofi for other artist types and it seems ok.

[Talbot]

26 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

You don't get that with PP

Maybe not, but we don't lose a percentage to business fees...

[High Jetter]

21 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Maybe not, but we don't lose a percentage to business fees...

Yup, read that so did f&f. Hate transaction charges.

[somewhatfoolish]

I did a pay.

[Noel Tidybeard]

tea school bunged

[Ghosty]

paid, pal.

[Youngteam]

Sent some PayPals. 

[doug]

Sent some as well. From me and @jollyfkr2 as I forgot to give you your change!

[Talbot]

Going to close this off now.  We've now more than enough in the kitty to cover the last two months, the coming month and likely a bit left over.

Also, the good news is that @SiC has had a very good clear-out of older backups, has changed the server specification on which we run, and made a number of other changes.  These will start to show up as cost savings next month, and we hope to be back down somewhere near the £60-ish-per-month cost.  This is really very good news.. it would mean the current fundraizr would last most of 6 months.

Cheers all for every donation.  Large, small and everwhere in between.

[Talbot]

At last check we were £294.98 in the red.  As explained, that was a combination of me not keeping an eye on things for too long, and the hosting/server costs rather escalating out of control.  Both of these issues are now significantly improved.

The fundraizr raised £434.01, which is every kind of amazing.  That meant that as of the end of August, the kitty had £139.03 in it.  Costs since then have been:

<information unavailable, as my credit card company site is not playing ball>

However, I don't want to delete this information, so I'll just leave this here as draft and  update it when I can (IE next few days I hope).  I suspect that £139 has done September and October, and we're probably back to approximately zero.  I'll likely let it go for one more month, as I don't want to be running fundraizrs too often, especially when it's my mistake that it was left so long..

 

[Talbot]

Next few days... HAH!  I'm ever the optimist of my own organisation.  But I did leave it the month I suggested, so.... some kind of accuracy?

Soooooo, where were we?  Ah yes.  £139.03 in the kitty, and then some costs.  Some significantly improved costs, but costs nevertheless:

September:  £113.76   (better)
October: £58.30 (that's more like it!!)
November: £66.46

Which means the account is now (£99.49) in the red, which is a massive improvement over where I'd got it to in August, which was almost (£300) in the red.  It's also clear now that (useage depending) our costs have been roughly halved over where we were.  This is all very good news for the future of the forum.

I'm aware that the C-word is looming, so lets do this now before it gets any closer:

 

As per before, the fundraiser can be found here:
https://ko-fi.com/autoshite

Unfortunately, despite KoFi being superbly easy to use, when it transfers balance to Paypal, it's considered a business transaction, so some fees are lost.  On the back of that, if anyone wishes to make a "friends and family" paypal payment directly into the Autoshite Paypal account, (IE bypassing KoFi's fees) that would be most welcomed.  The email address to make a payment to is

[email protected]

For anyone making a payment by anything other than paypal, or indeed would prefer not to use friends&family to make the payment that is no issue at all and payments through KoFi are very welcome indeed.  Sending direct by Paypal friends&family is absolutely optional.  But is also welcomed to avoid fees.

I will, as before, leave this open for a while, to allow everyone who uses the forum to see this and contribute if they wish.  I expect this raizer will cover us well into the new year.

The explanation for the weird email address on page 1.

Many thanks to all contributors, large, small or anything in between.

[Saabnut]

Small contribution sent as a thanks for helping to keep me sane*

[Macscrooge]

Vast* donation sent by PP. 

[666jjp]

pp'd

[MiniMinorMk3]

Donation done via PP F&F.

Thanks for all the work you put in, especially with reducing the running costs.

[groovylee]

smoll donation sent via PPF&F   thanks for all you guys do  

[Cookiesouwest]

Done by PP

[Dyslexic Viking]

Sent some via PayPal.

[Twiggy]

Managed to contribute via Ko-fi. I tried the f and f but couldn`t get anywhere with it. Do I have to use Pay Pal to contribute via f and f ?  Sorry to appear so thick..........................

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, Twiggy said:

Managed to contribute via Ko-fi. I tried the f and f but couldn`t get anywhere with it. Do I have to use Pay Pal to contribute via f and f ?  Sorry to appear so thick..........................

Pp is easier, it's what I use! 

[Talbot]

6 hours ago, Twiggy said:

Managed to contribute via Ko-fi. I tried the f and f but couldn`t get anywhere with it. Do I have to use Pay Pal to contribute via f and f ?  Sorry to appear so thick..........................

To contribute directly (IE not through Ko-Fi) you need to go to Paypal, and do a "send money".  The app/web page will give you the option for "goods and services" or "friends and family".  If you choose "friends and family" you get no buyer protection (IE something you'd want if you'd bought something from facebook marketplace or ebay or similar) but the transaction also does not lose any fees.
The email address "[email protected]" is the address you use to send to.  Ideally copy and paste that email address in as it is a bit of a fiddle to type out.

Paying through Ko-Fi and using PayPal goods and services have (I believe) the same fees deducted.  It's not a lot, but it does add up over time, hence the option of a fee-free payment method.

If anyone has issues with PayPal or Ko-Fi and would like to do a bank transfer instead, although there is no Autoshite bank account, I can accept a transfer to my bank account.  Private message for that please, I'm not putting sort code and account details on open forum for fairly clear reasons.

[Marshall2810]

Smoll donation sent via pp f+f

[Dabooka]

Done

EDIT. Not sure it went as F&F unfortunately 🤬

[Talbot]

2 hours ago, Dabooka said:

Done

EDIT. Not sure it went as F&F unfortunately 🤬

Came through without fees removed, so all good! 👍

[dozeydustman]

Something sent via PP

[Wibble]

Got home to find heating broken so small donation paid by via f&f I hope.

[Chuck Buckles]

PP donation en route