Open collective exists, although the current open source collective fee is brutal(10% from all transactions)
This is GitHub Sponsor's proposed fee for orgs after beta.
GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
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#132I wanted to close my Paypal account just now and they have very dark patterns going on. I wanted to send the remainder of my balance to my bank account, in order to do so I had to couple my bank account. It directly presented me with the info that if I were to couple the account, Paypal will have 90 days of access to my balance and all my transactions. How about no. Luckily there was a link on the bottom “link it in…
Given the horror stories involving PayPal over the years, I wondered why anyone would link a bank account to a PayPal account. I guess I now understand why.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or a debit card.
They say that in the article, but at the actual checkout the only options listed rn are paypal and credit card. Also, honestly not even sure my banks debit card would work with something like that, only thing I ever used for paying online is ideal (a dutch payment standard)
The Maestro cards that most dutch banks use are currently getting phased out and replaced with Mastercard or Visa debit cards [0]. These new cards include a new number that should work wherever credit cards are accepted.
[0]https://dutchreview.com/news/mastercard-to-stop-issuing-maes...
Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#134I wanted to close my Paypal account just now and they have very dark patterns going on. I wanted to send the remainder of my balance to my bank account, in order to do so I had to couple my bank account. It directly presented me with the info that if I were to couple the account, Paypal will have 90 days of access to my balance and all my transactions. How about no. Luckily there was a link on the bottom “link it in…
That is to allow PayPal to reverse fraudulent money transactions.
which would be more reassuring if people didn't consider paypal a more probable threat than fraud
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#135I wonder if PayPal did the old “Your account is locked and we’re keeping your money” thing to GitHub too, as they have too so many others.
Microsoft is big, it has an entire office building full of lawyers who can get the "you must give up your civil rights to a jury trial and have to use binding arbitration even if you don't want to when you use this service" clause struck down as unenforceable, unlike us mortals.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
They say that in the article, but at the actual checkout the only options listed rn are paypal and credit card. Also, honestly not even sure my banks debit card would work with something like that, only thing I ever used for paying online is ideal (a dutch payment standard)
In the US (and GitHub is a US-designed site) "credit card" is used to generically refer to any payment card, whether it's a credit card, a debit card, a pre-paid universal payment card (not a gift card, but a prepaid Visa or MasterCard or similar).
Looks like it is maestro which I don't think quite works like that. Looks like Trellmor posted info that explains all of it.
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#137We hear a lot from people who have had a bad experience using PayPal. But is there anyone who has had a good experience, either as a merchant, or as a customer?
This is a general statement about many companies, though PayPal is an example of it:
The company was great to work with until it wasn't.
Most people, most of the time, will have no major issue (and few minor ones) and wonder what the hubbub is about; a minority of people, a minority of time, will have lots of minor issues and a few major ones, and some of them will be _devastated_ by the experience.
All of this is to say: You will find lots of folks who've loved PP and had zero issues, but when the company is that size, a 0.001% error rate screws over a lot of paying customers.
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#138Really GitHub, no details? That looks like something which could easily hugely decrease donations for _some_ people. (For many it probably won't be to big of a change given that most sponsors are likely either companies or well-earning IT people.)
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#139Good riddance! Time for PayPal to die
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
They say that in the article, but at the actual checkout the only options listed rn are paypal and credit card. Also, honestly not even sure my banks debit card would work with something like that, only thing I ever used for paying online is ideal (a dutch payment standard)
Does your debit card not have a visa/mc logo? In the US credit cards and debit cards work exactly the same online. Only difference is you get points/cashback on credit cards. If not, can't you walk into a grocery store and buy a $500 prepaid visa card?
>If not, can't you walk into a grocery store and buy a $500 prepaid visa card?
I have never seen a grocery store sell something like that here, but maybe that is because I just never paid attention to that.
Not that I am saying it is super hard to get a credit/debit card, but it sure is one hell of a barrier to throwing money at open source contributers here and there.