Status on Donations?

[Elmo Putney]

Sub,

I've just realised I've missed my usual Easter donation the the cause, what is the status of donations? I seem to remember you had some bother a while back with paypal or similar?

Anyway, if all is well I'll hit the donate button...and hopefully this will remind a few others too.

[sub]

PayPal hasn't caused me any problems recently. Back when they did freeze my account, I did eventually get the money back from them about 6 months later. There main beef seemed to be that I was previously using their variable priced donation system. I've always paid tax on it, but I think they were concerned with the "donation" status. Moving to the currently used fixed price options seems to have resolved the issue.

I usually average about 4 or 5 donations a month, so we're not talking a lot of money. The advertising on the web site usually earns slightly more per month.

[mvallevand]

I didn't know ads helped that much. I just excluded forums.gbpvr.com from the AdBlock plugin, took five seconds.

Martin

[sub]

I didn't know ads helped that much.

Moving to the picture ads six months ago was a bit help with the ad revenue. It got me about three times what we used to get with text ads.

[gEd]

Thanks for the reminder! donation sent

[Graham]

the ad revenue.

I suggest that we should all click on the ads several times each day ... I assume that makes a difference.

[mulletback]

Odd...I don't see any ads, and I explicitly don't run AdBlock on the site.

[sub]

I suggest that we should all click on the ads several times each day ... I assume that makes a difference.

I appreciate the thought, but couldn't really recommend that. Google would probably investigate the unusual click-through behaviour. Just do what you normally do with ads...ignore them most of the time, unless you see something you're interested in.

[JonnyCam]

Post's like this make me take more notice of the ads I am getting presented with,
Currently a lot of ads for visiting Samoa & Rarotonga.

I went to Tonga at Christmas, so must have googled some islands.
That, and ads for the YouShop service from NZ Post.

[sub]

Yeah it is a bit spooky some of the ads you get shown. Can definitely see google watching. I googled 'online backup' the other day, and looked at the crashplan website, and now I'm getting a lot of ads for crashplan and other cloud services.