Notifications a go
All the notification emails have been sent to the lucky winners, so if you don't receive yours within the next couple of hours comment in here with your username and the username of the person you won and I'll send out in the morning :)
There is a bug with the direct donation form not notifying a successful submission and I'm still poking at it.
Also, Invisible Children has some really unhelpful receipts - I know the form asks for the ID and amount and IC gives neither, so just copy anything that looks like it could work.
Just to be clear: the purpose of asking for receipts isn't to check up on donations, no one has ever tried anything because you're all awesome, as we've scientifically proven.
(Well, I do check, but thats just because the differing amounts in currencies can make things complex, or sometimes math goes weird with lots of bids to donate for. And I'm OCD that way.)
The reason I ask for receipts is so that when I contact a charity I can tell them specifically which donations made were from the auction and they know when I give them a final total, it's accurate, so they can write me a letter with the figure in at and I can show that to you guys and you'll know my Hawaii fund remains sadly empty and devoid of purpose.
Cheer up, emo Hawaii fund.
It was more important when we were so much more Paypal heavy, but I don't think you can be over- accountable with something like this.
There is a bug with the direct donation form not notifying a successful submission and I'm still poking at it.
Also, Invisible Children has some really unhelpful receipts - I know the form asks for the ID and amount and IC gives neither, so just copy anything that looks like it could work.
Just to be clear: the purpose of asking for receipts isn't to check up on donations, no one has ever tried anything because you're all awesome, as we've scientifically proven.
(Well, I do check, but thats just because the differing amounts in currencies can make things complex, or sometimes math goes weird with lots of bids to donate for. And I'm OCD that way.)
The reason I ask for receipts is so that when I contact a charity I can tell them specifically which donations made were from the auction and they know when I give them a final total, it's accurate, so they can write me a letter with the figure in at and I can show that to you guys and you'll know my Hawaii fund remains sadly empty and devoid of purpose.
Cheer up, emo Hawaii fund.
It was more important when we were so much more Paypal heavy, but I don't think you can be over- accountable with something like this.