Re: Paypal questions

Walter Vermeir <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:59:03 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Paypal has assigned us a human account manager.  This means that I
> can ask specific questions of them and get human answers, I suppose.
> 
> Can we sum up the problems that Europeans have had in using Paypal,
> so that I can report to her about that for advice?
> 
> --Jimbo

You can ask of Wikimedia can get a discount.

When I look at the numbers PayPal has a large commision.

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_PayPal_donations_for_2003

 From a 5 euro donation PayPal recieves 0,55 euro. The price of a bread.

When there are cheaper options the should be used.

Walter