Don,
Did you get this squared away with paypal?
Scott
Scott, your info request here was accompanied by a couple of PMs and an email all in just the last 24 hours asking how this was going. People have been concerned over whether their efforts were making it where they were intended.
After looking at the last email from Paypal, and just how annoying and obtuse it was, I for the life of me could not figure out why I should continue screwing with them. Doing so does not guarantee immediate results. Doing so would also only be effort that would eventually allow them to secure their percentage in transaction fees. Those are fees they patently have not earned. What I'd thought would be the simplest way to do this surely has not been. My bad.
So, rather than giving Paypal the satisfaction of continuing to dance to their tune and paying them for the privilege I just got through refunding everything there. Hopefully all of you will see the refund notices very promptly. They get no fees on a refunded transaction. At this point there is some small satisfaction in knowing they won't get paid.
A few had used snail mail to begin with. To those that had contributed using Paypal; upon seeing your refunds please do the same. Address is still in the first post of the thread. For convenience here it is again:
Don Carey
2829 N. Chandler
Joplin, MO 64801
Thanks everyone very much for your patience here. I never anticipated this becoming weird or a hassle. My heartfelt apologies to all of you for putting up with the problems and still being concerned enough to check in on it.
While here I'll make one more pitch too. The reasons why are in the first post of this thread. These are two really good people who need a hand right now. I personally pitched in about 3k to cover one month of bare minimum expenses for them. The contributions so far from here and a couple of other sources have come close to matching that.
If someone is seeing this thread for the first time your consideration is appreciated. Again, not asking anyone to give until it hurts. Not even until it stings. If you can share the cost of a night's restaurant bill or movie tickets that's great. A few doing that really adds up. And it will all be strongly and beautifully appreciated by a special little girl and her dad.
Thanks again,
Don