$1 a week

MooseJaw
posted by MooseJaw May 6, 2008 3:19pm

I will tinker with Paypal to see if I can make a weekly donation of one dollar.

I challenge others to do the same.

Comments

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hannes
Tue, 05/20/2008 - 9:45am

That's an interesting idea - but I'm not sure it's the best thing for the project. For each payment PayPal takes a standard fee + a percentage of the transaction. So, out of each $1 you'll send The 1 Second Film will only get about $0.70.

I would recommend collecting your money and make a bigger one-time donation -- or if you want to split it up, send a donation maybe every 4 months :)

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nirvan
Tue, 05/20/2008 - 2:27pm

The $1 donations are largely symbolic. We only net .67 on $1 donations. Larger donations of $10 or more are much more efficient with regard to transaction fees.

Overall, offering the option of making a small monthly donation is a great idea. We couldn't afford to securely implement that functionality with our current site, but it's something we are looking into with our next site upgrade.