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Friar Agustin, if Paypal doen't connect to Las Islas Filipinas, maybe there
is an international paysite that you could use. Or isn't the web that sophisticated yet, as I am ignorant of so much?!
SpyBot's Search and Destroy creator, Patrick Krolla, of Germany, posts his freeware online and then people donate. Most people don't donate, but the ones that do keep his business going with just enough money TO keep going. He is in PC World Magazine this month, I have a subscription. Maybe you could visit his site and see how he receives donations and how he posts this information to his Spybot downloaders.
Everyone I know has his freeware on their computers. If they'd all just send him a penny or two, he'd probably write some more software, instead of just maintaining what he has already done.
Or, maybe you could connect with someone who could filter Paypal funds to you from their account, to your school in the form of Cashier's checks, or something similar. OR, open a banking account in the US, Hawaii maybe, and then work out how to get it to you from there.
My sister in Mexico has a US bank account for deposits and then Mom physically transfers some of the funds to her Mexican account. ALSO, my sister just uses her American bank account issued ATM card to remove funds (inside of Mexico from Mexican ATM's) to gather up spending money or uses the card as her credit card for purchases down there.....hmmmm? Any of this helpful?
posted by
benzinha
on April 6, 2004 at 9:26 AM
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What you just wrote is
really comforting. I thought I was just bad at promotion and the fact that I can't charge PayPal donations through my website were the problems.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on April 6, 2004 at 8:55 AM
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I know the feeling...
I've had a web site since 1998. Bren has had one since 1996, but she says she wishes she had learned to do all the neat stuff you do. She learned just enough to do her own site (in memory of her mother who died in 1996--had Alzheimer's) and a few others, and enough by 1999 to make them think at work that she was the best so that she could get her present job at the library where one of the many hats she wears is that of Webmaster. But back to the money thing, I've had a Cafe Press shop for over a year and not made a cent, and Bren has had bookstores and other affiliate program sites all over the web, and the most she's made is from her Amazon sales to herself. ;-) Bren says, and I think so too, learning and sharing are most important. You're doing a great job of sharing your skills here! Thanks!
posted by
Midi
on April 6, 2004 at 6:59 AM
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Friar Agustin, I know what you mean, my brother and sister-in-law do
the same thing in their occupations, lawyer and educator, respectively. But, finally they formed a small online business which now charges, at least the maintenance fees of the websites for their friends and customers.
My brother got the whole City of Phoenix Legal Department lawyer ring up and online and gave some small classes on web competence, ie. typing, etc.!!! Now, their court dates are posted, their calendars notify them of upcoming things that have to be filed and my sister-in-law gets math teachers connected to the web and children's math websites, etc.
I think that many people do this for their friends. I was selling the artwork of one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, we had many immigrants here in town for awhile, on eBay for him to make some money off of his lovely drawings and to introduce him to the web and its possibilites and others gave them computers and lessons. It was wonderful. They can now all communicate from wherever they were sent in the world to relocate.
Money is not the issue as the web builds, I think. And, I met you!!
posted by
benzinha
on April 5, 2004 at 6:53 PM
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