Hi Lodewijk,
Thanks for letting us know! IDEAL has been back up in the page, but we
recently made a few changes that ended up accidentally removing the option
from the form. It's all fixed now :)
Regarding IBAN: Finance is still working with our bank and we should be
sending an update once we hear from them.
Thanks,
Pats
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
Hi Pats,
Please be aware that iDEAL is still not functional on the Dutch fundraiser
page. Also, IBAN is missing.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
Hi Patricia,
Thanks for telling that the iDEAL will be back soon. I don't quite
understand from your answer why you add the increased hurdle of emailing
the team for the IBAN though. Am I overlooking something?
Best,
Lodewijk
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Patricia Pena <ppena(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hi Lodewijk,
>
> Currently IDEAL is temporarily down on our pages (it went into
maintenance
mode
after our annual campaign), but should be back up soon :) We know
the importance of this method for Dutch donors and have supported this
option since we started fundraising in the NL. We also support offline
bank
transfer (IBAN) and donors can get the account number with our Donor
Services team.
We had an extremely successful Fundraising campaign this year, and there
will be some great mobile optimization coming up in the next few months,
which will allow mobile donors to complete their donations in a much
faster
and easier way.
Thanks!
Pats
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org
> wrote:
>
> > A while back now, the chapters were no longer allowed to fundraise,
> because
> > the Wikimedia Foundation argued they would be better able to do this.
At
> > the time, this sounded somewhat
reasonable. However, since then, there
> have
> > been some disturbing developments - at least for Dutch donors.
> >
> > No longer it is possible to pay electronically (iDEAL, one of the most
> > common methods is no longer supported - 'electronic banking' simply
> refers
> > you back to the credit card page) or even via regular bank transfer
> (using
> > an IBAN) in the Netherlands. The donation page
> > <
> >
>
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPag…
> > >
> > only
> > allows credit card and paypal, and the 'other ways to give' simply
sends
> > you to the helpdesk if you want to make
a bank transfer payment.
> >
> > What is the reasoning behind this? Have bank transfers become a legal
> > swamp? Are there statistics suggesting that this method was no longer
> > required by donors? Did the European bank account somehow get
> temporarily
> > suspended?
> >
> > If it has become so hard to donate, maybe it makes more sense to send
> the
> > donors to the local chapter pages where they can actually donate in
the
> > local suitable methods (in this case,
Wikimedia Netherlands offers
both
> > iDEAL and IBAN
> > <http://www.wikimedia.nl/pagina/doneren-aan-wikimedia-nederland>).
> >
> > One of the Dutch OTRS team members asked for elaboration, but didn't
> quite
> > get a satisfying answer. I hope this is a temporary situation, and
that
> > this threshold will be removed again. It
would be sad if we go through
> all
> > kind of trouble to enable long tail methods like bitcoin, but skip
bank
> > transfer...
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Lodewijk
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