Unable to donate. Really want to.

[Arioch13]

I really want to donate to you guys. You have been fantastic in support of my all time favourite game (Oblivion) for the many years I have been playing it. High time I made a donation. I had a look at how I do that today. Unfortunately it seems your only using paypal? Before starting my own company and subsequently moving out of the UK I was a director for a large systems integration company. One of the companies I was involved with was paypal at the time at which they had just moved a large portion of their call handling too India. Shortly after there have been many investigations about call centre staff selling customer details to organised crime (they are not alone in this in terms of bad outsourcing decisions but I will be dammed if I give them my details). The number of people afftect is (Allegedlly - as Paypal have avoided prosecuting people for fear of the bad publicity) been significant but worse, the harm that has been done to this people has taken some of them a very very long time to resolve. I dont use Paypal and have banned completely from my businesses. Even beyond this our group of companies has also taken the measure of ensuring that our stafff (provided with company owned hardware for homeworking) are not permitted to utilise Paypal from any company provided machines. So it would be a bit hypocritical if I as the group Managing Director broke my own rules now matter how much I want to donate to you.

 

Incidentally I know of at least one major corporation ( a client of ours with 45000 employees) has taken the same step. (banning Paypal, LIVE and Steam from company PCs as well as other services under penality of facing gross misconduct proceedings).

 

Apologies, I digress due to my strong feelings on the subject. Suffice to say that I DO very much want to donate to what I see as a fantastic service. However I am unable too. Could I suggest you broaden your ability to accept payment somehow. Personally I can use a variety of non compromised payment providers. Moneybookers, Alertpay and others ( Had tried worldpay but found them to be painful to use). I hate to see a good effort go unrewarded and given the limited coverage of paypal geographically I am fairly sure your missing out on possible revenue.

[Pushkatu]

You should contact Dark0ne. He is the only one that deals with this kind of problems.