[identity profile] chordatesrock.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] crowdfunding
PayPal tells me that Horrible Unspecified Doom will befall me if I use a Donate button without being a nonprofit. I see that a lot of you use Donate buttons, as opposed to Add to Cart or other choices. I am confused.

Also, thank you, everyone here, because you are all awesome and helpful and encouraging and a lot of other things.

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Date: 2013-07-11 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com
I don't actually have anything that needs to be added to a cart, so the buy now button options don't work for me when designing the buttons.

I've been hunting around the Paypal site and I haven't seen the Doomful Message you've mentioned... can you link to it so I can read it?

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Date: 2013-07-11 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ankewehner.livejournal.com
There was a big kerfuffle about something like that months ago, maybe last year. The result was IIRC that using a donation button to collect money for yourself is OK; the problem is when someone who's not puts up a donation button saying they will forward the funds somewhere else, because that couold be a lie.

Can anybody confirm or refute?

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Date: 2013-07-11 10:40 pm (UTC)
zeeth_kyrah: A glowing white and blue anthropomorphic horse stands before a pink and blue sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] zeeth_kyrah
I'd also note that a Tarot reader I know got in trouble with Paypal for offering chances to donators for a free reading. They decided it was a raffle, and you're not supposed to run raffles on donate buttons.

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Date: 2013-07-12 05:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ankewehner.livejournal.com
Ah, true. Was that only about the donation button? I thought it was Paypal as a whole.

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Date: 2013-07-12 08:57 pm (UTC)
zeeth_kyrah: A glowing white and blue anthropomorphic horse stands before a pink and blue sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] zeeth_kyrah
I don't recall, though I should probably review their policies every now and then just as a refresher.

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Date: 2013-07-12 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-id.livejournal.com
Paypal as a whole, because what defines a raffle is state and federal gambling laws and PP does not want to run afoul of those.

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Date: 2013-07-12 05:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ankewehner.livejournal.com
The second sentence is missing something: "...when someone who's not a registered nonprofit organisation..."

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Date: 2013-07-12 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] itsamellama.livejournal.com
Augh it's really vague too because a friend of mine who put up a Donate button for people to donate to her because she really needed to make ends meet that month had her account suspended (we are from the Philippines, btw), and yet others from the US who are doing the same thing aren't being suspended at all. :/

Well...

Date: 2013-07-20 05:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
The problem is that the "Buy Now" and "Donate" buttons work differently, so people need them for different things. PayPal foolishly does not offer buttons with different text on them as a standard option. They do let you insert your own button icon, as many crowdfunders do, but that's a lot more finicky.

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