On 9 Nov 2008, at 20:54, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Walter Vermeir
<walter(a)wikipedia.be> wrote:
It could be useful to include on the donation
page something like;
"Every donation, how small it may be is welcome ... but know that by
donation only $1 means we get only X% of your money after
transactions
fees. If you donate $5 then we receive X% of your donation."
Most of the really tiny donations (especially in USD) are criminals
attempting to verify stolen credit cards. There is no point in begging
them to donate more. :)
[citation needed]
For the non-fraudsters use JS to set a currency
dependent minimum
which makes sense for the typical users of the currency. Trying to
get people to understand paypal fees is just too much complexity, and
is likely to just bring crys about why we don't offer a lower overhead
option (I think the google payment service is less costly than paypal,
for example).
If you explain paypal fees clearly as they'll apply to that
transaction (i.e. taking into account the currency), then I'm sure
99% of people will be able to understand them just fine. However, the
ideal would be to use lower overhead options, as you say - is there
nothing around that has a low to zero overhead fee for non-profits/
charities?
Mike