As mentioned in the other membership thread some of you were unsure about whether Donor payments would be taken from your account on an automatic renewal basis.
Without having access to Nickj’s paypal account, I can’t tell you for certain if this was an “opt out” type deal upon setup, but i’m pretty much certain it wouldn’t have been setup that way.
This will guide you through the process of how to cancel a recurring payment (though obviously we’d love it if you continued to support FOA as a Donor). But I don’t want anyone being down $20 if they don’t wish to do so.
Check it, let me know if any questions, and thanks again for your support.
ps - if i figure out how to email all registered donors i’ll be doing that too, i understand some current donors may not be as active as they were 12 months ago and may not see this post.
Mine didn’t function exactly as above, but its close enough to figure out. Will re-donate in 12 months or so if I can, cheers for giving peeps the option Rolly.
@familyguy - no worries, the decision was two-fold:
1 - we definitely didn’t want to be deducting money that people couldn’t, or didn’t want, to donate, that would’ve been a shit move.
2 - the time and hassle of having to investigate refunds or whatever would’ve been a nightmare, especially with nickj currently bobbing along somewhere in the middle of the pacific ocean.
was yours also a recurring payment that required cancellation?
@bricktop - thanks for letting me know. the process was slightly different to the instructions for me too actually, but i ended up just clicking ‘Profile’ tab when the ‘more options’ link wasn’t included in the drop down menu.
No, no access will be removed. Usually, vbulletin subscriptions are used to give people access to stuff that non-subscribers don’t get.
FOA uses subscriptions only to collect donations, in effect. Since there is nothing additional on the forum you get by donating, there is no ‘access’ to remove.
tl;dr - don’t worry about it. Nothing bad happens.
edit: oh and I don’t think there’s anything we can do about the email wording at the moment because NickJ is in the middle of an ocean somewhere. It’ll get fixed up when he’s back I think.
snowflake is correct, there’s no additional access, so all it should do is untick one small box in the admin control panel. this is so we know who to email any relevant discount codes if we’re doing more tees etc.
if, for whatever reason, you can’t access FOA like you used to, please email me - rolly@fixed.org.au - and I’ll fix it for you.
I’ll transfer my payment tomorrow as long as Spizza keeps his grubby hands away from me… and someone provides proof that alexb618 actually rides a bike.
