[Pan-users] Re: Tip Jar Donation Unacknowledged

[Duncan]

Tony Sivori posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:44:56 -0400:

> Does anyone know if Charles normally acknowledges the receipt of tips? On
> April 12, I put $25 in the Pan tip jar via Pay Pal using a credit card.
> Pay Pal got the money as the charge is on the credit card. But I never got
> any acknowledgment from Charles or anyone involved in Pan development.
> 
> So ten days later, on the 22nd , I emailed
> address@hidden to ask if Pay Pal had
> forwarded the $25 to him. As of today, I have not heard from Charles.

Hmm, interesting.  Maybe that's why Charles hasn't gotten many tips. =8^|

I don't really trust pay pal, and don't tend to use them, but Charles has
tended to "disappear" for quite some time sometimes, over the last couple
years.  I guess meat-space keeps him very busy sometimes.  Anyway, I don't
know that tip jar donations are a frequent enough occurrence have
established a pattern on them specifically, but given the general pattern,
I'd say nothing can be proven from a no-response for several weeks.  I'd
hope he can respond within a month to six weeks if not sooner, but I don't
think the evidence supports necessarily getting worried in less than a
month, anyway.  Of course, if you have a limit to the time you can
challenge it with pay pal, as seems likely they might impose (I don't
know, guessing), that kind of throws a wrench in verifying anything at
all, but there you have it.

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