[hackerspaces] wikileaks - switching from paypal

[Adam D Bachman]

Baltimore Node (the space Matthew was talking about) was frozen out of
Amazon too, for the same reason. Accepting "donations" while being a
non-profit (as recognized by the state of Maryland), but not a 501c3
non-profit. Amazon also had terrible customer service. It took us a month or
two to get almost $850 back from them.

We're on Google Checkout now.


- Adam

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tim Saylor <tim.saylor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Strangely, we had that same problem with Amazon and we switched to Paypal
> because they told us not having 501c3 wasn't a problem.  I guess you can't
> trust anybody.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Matthew Forr <matthew.forr at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We've had problems with Paypal far before Wikileaks and had our account
>> frozen twice. Apparently if you ask for donations anywhere on their site and
>> Paypal finds out they freeze your account and ask for proof that you're a
>> 501c3. There customer service is terrible and I can't recommend against
>> using them enough, that said, I'm not surprised they froze Wikileaks account
>> and I feel their pain.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Tim Saylor <tim.saylor at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> We had a minor drama bomb on our mailing list about using paypal and our
>>> general conclusion was that the space shouldn't get distracted with politics
>>> and take an official stand on the matter.  If people want to pay us with
>>> paypal, great.  If they want to use another method (and if enough people
>>> want us to support something else) that's great too.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Christopher Pilkington <cjp at 0x1.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don't hackerspaces use actual bank or credit union accounts?  I would
>>>> have never considered using PayPal, even before the wikileaks fiasco.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alexandre Girard <
>>>> alx.girard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We've remove the paypal button on homepage for monthly membership
>>>>> subscription, and since we meet once a week, it was not so useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've got the bi-annual financial meeting next wednesday, we've got
>>>>> accounts on Flattr or WePay it people need this
>>>>> online-membership-payment feature back.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alex - tetalab.org
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Barry Coughlan <barry at 091labs.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Has any space switched from Paypal due to Wikileaks? If so, what
>>>>> alternative
>>>>> > are you using and how do you find it?
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>> -Matthew
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