I'd love to begin making small monthly payments to the EFF, but here's my hurdle: I don't like authorizing anybody (not even the EFF) to charge my VISA more than once. And I don't like having PayPal take a cut when the money's going to a charity.
In my home country, I do regular donations to charities by setting up an automated transfer in my bank, hence "pushing" the money. I prefer having nothing "pulled", even by such privacy oriented a group as the EFF. Is there any solution to this problem internationally? A monthly e-mail linking to a payment page (using VISA, for example) would count as a crude but satisfactory solution!
Haha, sometimes the US-European disconnect is very cute. I mean no offense, but checks went out of use in my country like 20 years ago. (Anectodally, they can still be cashed, for a service fee of $30 or so). Oh, and mailing something to the US would alone be more than PayPal's cut.
So your banking system has no way of giving money to an organization you want to support, and you're calling us "very cute"? That makes a lot of sense.
Nice! Do you know how much of a cut Flattr takes? Wikipedia suggests 10%, which is just too much.
Hey, EFF, if you ever read this: An option for being sent an email monthly with a link to a one-click payment of the same amount as last month would get people like me donating!
I don't think that's too much though. It's not just a tool to donate, they provide the infrastructure for an alternative model to earning a living online. Their approach replaces the incentive to create artificial scarcity by an incentive to share. I would love to live in a society that worked like this.
Try to put some credit on a flattr account and donate to a few projects you like, I think you will get a better feel of what I meant. : )
In my home country, I do regular donations to charities by setting up an automated transfer in my bank, hence "pushing" the money. I prefer having nothing "pulled", even by such privacy oriented a group as the EFF. Is there any solution to this problem internationally? A monthly e-mail linking to a payment page (using VISA, for example) would count as a crude but satisfactory solution!