15th Warlock
09-04-2005, 08:52 AM
I've heard of lots of ppl not caring at all about the situation going right now on in Louisiana, Alabama, or Mississippi, but going a step ahead and even trying to stop the efforts of ppl that actually is trying to help relief the situation is way too much IMO... :mad:
Such is the case of a company many of you may have heard of: Paypal. They have frozen more than $20,000.00 in donations to the American Red Cross that were acumulated by "Something Awful (http://www.somethingawful.com/)" a website that perhaps many of us visit daily, and whose owners set a relief effort a day ago and collected the donations sum mentioned before in less than a day from ppl all over the net.
Something Awful, is itself a victim of Katrina, having lost their servers located in the New Orleans area, so they setup a temporary webpage where ppl would rant about what's going on in that area, and, a day ago, they even set up a fund raising effort for victims of Katrina.
Their error, it seems, was using the "trusted" services of Paypal.
The reason Paypal froze the funds: "We have received more than one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers."
Please note that Something Awful isn't selling a single thing, so, how the hell are they supposed to comply to something like that? What do Paypal want? in SA's own words:
They are asking me to provide a shipping number FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. How they hell am I supposed to comply with this? What do they want? Oh, well you see, here's proof I shipped NOTHING via NO COMPANY to NO ADDRESS. Is this good enough? I can't even enter a fictional shipping number for the fictional item that never shipped to the fictional customer because THERE IS NOTHING THERE TO CLICK
Personally, I'm sick and tired of hearing of ppl not caring, or taking advantage of the precarious situation going on right now in Lousiana, Alabama and Mississippi :mad:
If you want to help relief the hurricane victims of Katrina directly, please use the following link:
https://give.redcross.org/?http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
And if you want to help SA, please visit them at
http://www.somethingawful.com/
Such is the case of a company many of you may have heard of: Paypal. They have frozen more than $20,000.00 in donations to the American Red Cross that were acumulated by "Something Awful (http://www.somethingawful.com/)" a website that perhaps many of us visit daily, and whose owners set a relief effort a day ago and collected the donations sum mentioned before in less than a day from ppl all over the net.
Something Awful, is itself a victim of Katrina, having lost their servers located in the New Orleans area, so they setup a temporary webpage where ppl would rant about what's going on in that area, and, a day ago, they even set up a fund raising effort for victims of Katrina.
Their error, it seems, was using the "trusted" services of Paypal.
The reason Paypal froze the funds: "We have received more than one report of suspicious behavior from your buyers."
Please note that Something Awful isn't selling a single thing, so, how the hell are they supposed to comply to something like that? What do Paypal want? in SA's own words:
They are asking me to provide a shipping number FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. How they hell am I supposed to comply with this? What do they want? Oh, well you see, here's proof I shipped NOTHING via NO COMPANY to NO ADDRESS. Is this good enough? I can't even enter a fictional shipping number for the fictional item that never shipped to the fictional customer because THERE IS NOTHING THERE TO CLICK
Personally, I'm sick and tired of hearing of ppl not caring, or taking advantage of the precarious situation going on right now in Lousiana, Alabama and Mississippi :mad:
If you want to help relief the hurricane victims of Katrina directly, please use the following link:
https://give.redcross.org/?http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
And if you want to help SA, please visit them at
http://www.somethingawful.com/