Lets buy Ian Bell a plasma globe for Christmas!

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:06 pm

Kaks wrote:
Apart from forever being in their databases? Not too many!;)

Oooh, that reminds me I still haven't downloaded the spam.oxp...

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:41 pm

I'd go a fiver for Mr. Bell.

The only downside of donating to somebody via paypal is paypal take a cut - send a fiver, receiver gets about £4.30. (it's a minimum cut + small percentage)

drew · Post by **drew** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:36 am

I'll be in for a £5. Sounds fun!

Cheers,

Drew.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 7:19 am

£5 here, too.

Where's the paypal button?

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:20 am

Yes Mr H the pay pal cut is a problem. Are there any alternatives though. In a nights worth of searching I found very little. I don't really have any spare bank accounts that I'd like to start up so we can do a D.B.T.(seems a bit trivial for this one venture). Any thoughts on alternatives would be welcome.

On the don't buy stuff on an old wish list thing: Absolutely 100% doubling up is NOT GOOD! I don't think a speculative e-mail asking Mr Bell to check over his Amazon listing and update it would be remiss or give the game away too much. I might dash that off tonight.

maik · Post by **maik** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:26 am

ClymAngus wrote:
Yes Mr H the pay pal cut is a problem. Are there any alternatives though. In a nights worth of searching I found very little. I don't really have any spare bank accounts that I'd like to start up so we can do a D.B.T.(seems a bit trivial for this one venture). Any thoughts on alternatives would be welcome.

Given our geographic spread I actually don't think the PayPal cut is a problem. Cross-border bank transaction fees will likely be prohibitively high in contrast.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:06 am

We could paypal ClymA with our donations and then on behalf of the Forum, he could go through Ian's wishlist buying up to the value of the donation (minus the paypal cut of course).

That way we'd have one pot of money and one source of purchasing - no chance of doubling up...

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:37 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
We could paypal ClymA with our donations and then on behalf of the Forum, he could go through Ian's wishlist buying up to the value of the donation (minus the paypal cut of course).

That way we'd have one pot of money and one source of purchasing - no chance of doubling up...

Crimany, I'd better sort out a paypal account!

OK working on this It might take a minute or two to make a button. Erm just feeling my way round this.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:27 pm

maik wrote:
Given our geographic spread I actually don't think the PayPal cut is a problem. Cross-border bank transaction fees will likely be prohibitively high in contrast.

Yeah... Too true

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:15 am

Ooo no html in the forum. Righty ho, I'm going to have to hack something together at crimsonforge.

DONE!

http://www.crimsonforge.co.uk/html/wardrobe.html

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:51 pm

I've got a question: When I click on the "Donate" button, I get to a site which looks like this:

What I'm wondering about is the email address displayed at the top. It's definitely not mine. Is it yours? And if not, what's it doing there?

Sorry for being (perhaps) overly suspicious. Blame it on the spam assassin in me.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:58 pm

It's cool, McLane... that's CA's address.

Zieman · Post by **Zieman** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:37 pm

5 £ sent (or whatever is left of it after PayPal grabs its share...).

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:38 pm

Yeah sorry about that, this is me tate451.heretic -sqwiggly thing-virgin.net
Thought you'd prefer a listing you could check to be sure. It was that or my merchant number.

(MODERATOR: I changed your e mail address, not a good idea to put it on the boards like that. E-mail harvesting crawlers et c... The pic posted isn't machine-readable, so that's no problem)

OK I'm keeping a tally on post 1 of this tread. Also (as this appears to be working) we might as well start discussing (secret santas mainly) HOW you wish your money to be spent. One big prezzy? Lots of little ones?

As with the maps my bold brethren I am little but your humble servant in grand adventures such as this.[/b]

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:12 pm

In the unlikely event that the Tom Lehrer box set gets onto the list, buy the new one, even though it ships from the states, and costs a bit more. I think it’s a Rhino special edition… they’re usually limited runs, and can be quite rare. The Remains of Tom Lehrer runs to £184 on one site I frequent… there is only one copy available there, and it’s used.

A man of very good taste, is Mr Bell.