About a year ago I proposed on this list that the Board add e-gold as an additional alternative payment option. As I recall, the suggestion was declined, with the comment that e-gold was an "also-ran" payment system.
I would like to encourage another look. e-gold has continued to advance through 2005, pulling considerably ahead of moneybookers.com [and for that matter, etrade.com and citi.com] in terms of reach and traffic rankings per Alexa. At present, e-gold processes 40,000 to 60,000 Spends (User-to-User transfers) per day, conveying $10 million plus of value. [see http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html ]. Unlike Paypal, Moneybookers, credit cards or any other legacy option, e-gold is truly global and features fees that are a tiny fraction of any other system. For those of you whose life beyond Wiki entails online commerce, I also note that e-gold is unique in that it is absolutely free of chargeback risk with immediate final settlement, worldwide.
Dr. Douglas Jackson Chairman, e-gold Ltd. (and fan of Wikipedia)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
Copied from: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q4/Day_7
A total of 455 donations were made through PayPal on '''Day 7''',
yielding the equivalent of
$10,107.89 USD. The average donation that day was $22.22. Small
increases in mail and Moneybookers
donations brings those totals to $95 and $545.33 respectively.