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I hope LWN is getting SOME credit card payments...

I hope LWN is getting SOME credit card payments...

Posted Aug 22, 2002 11:02 UTC (Thu) by mckay (subscriber, #2782)
Parent article: The obligatory LWN status update

...because I just got my MasterCard bill, and the charge for
my LWN contribution was on it. If you are not getting anything,
then somebody's ripping you, and us, off.


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I hope LWN is getting SOME credit card payments...

Posted Aug 22, 2002 12:29 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

All of the charges have gone through - they have not had trouble with billing the card holders. Much of it is sitting in a "hold account" until they decide that we did not just charge a bunch of random credit card numbers to raise money. And some of it is currently unaccounted for - seemingly a screwup on the clearing house's side. We're working on it...not much fun.

I hope LWN is getting SOME credit card payments...

Posted Aug 22, 2002 17:51 UTC (Thu) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link]

I hope you get the interest from the hold account too...

Good luck on getting it sorted. I for one will be quite happy to verify my donation with them.

I hope LWN is getting SOME credit card payments...

Posted Aug 22, 2002 18:57 UTC (Thu) by jre (guest, #2807) [Link]

Even if one grants that a spectacular outpouring of community support is an inherently suspicious event, it seems reasonable to expect that your clearinghouse would have _some_ way of confirming that you are not committing fraud. What are they proposing to do -- wait some period and, if nobody complains, grudgingly hand over the money? The charge is on my credit card statement, and it burns my biscuits that my money is not going where I asked for it to go!

I hope LWN is getting SOME credit card payments...

Posted Aug 23, 2002 15:50 UTC (Fri) by a9db0 (subscriber, #2181) [Link]

Jon-

The charge hit my card too.

If they are holding the money on a verification basis, who do I contact to let them know it isn't fraud.

Oh, and be sure to ask what the interest rate is they are paying you. You know they are holding the cash in an interest earning account.

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