Those of you who are North American members and participants in the Parosphromenus Project no doubt remember my plea last month to consider making a donation to the Project. In following up on my own suggestion I attempted to make my donation utilizing the button on the homepage. There appears to be an issue in using the donation button for American Paypal clients. For some reason, our ID and password is not recognized by Paypal Germany and Paypal is not willing or able to explain why this is not possible. For those of you that have attempted and failed or are not yet made the effort to contribute I make the following suggestion.
1. Enter your Paypal account in your normal manner and sign-in
2. Select send money to a friend
3. When asked for an email address or phone number, enter the following email address peter.finke@parosphromenus-project.org .
4. Then enter the amount you wish to donate. I entered the amount in Euros and Paypal made the conversion from dollars to Euros automatically.
5. Select send … I received an email back within minutes indicating the transfer was successful. While the message indicates it may take 3-5 days for the transaction to be processed, I received a response from Dr. Finke within several hours indicating the funds were already in the account.
So, it works, and it is easy to accomplish with your Paypal account. We often procrastinate in following up on tasks like this. My suggestion is, if you were planning on making a donation to this worthy effort, make the donation. Make the donation now – right NOW! Please, don’ wait until tomorrow or next week. Do it today it is vital if you wish to see the organization survive. Without additional donations the PP will be forced to dial-back the website or ultimately close down the site. Thank you for your support in advance … Happy New Year to everyone.