*** Dinesh & Kavita's wedding present ***

[Kari]

OK geeks, here's an update regarding Dinesh & Kavita's wedding present:

We faced two problems. First, PayPal is currently not accepting any payments for private persons in India, which is very strange but something we can do nothing for. More information here.

Secondly, gofundme.com service has had problems to accept donations in general, problem has something to do with the way the site handles PayPal payments. In their technical blog they say the problem was solved two days ago but this seems not to be true.

I've spent a few hours now trying to solve this, calling PayPal, Western Union and so on. Long story short, the donations for wedding present for Dinesh & Kavita are now accepted in this site: Wedding blog of Dinesh & Kavita. You can donate in Euros or US Dollars. All donations are posted, so if you do not want to publish your name and / or the amount, please PM me here or use contact information found on the site before the donation, so I know not to publish the information you don't want to publish. I administrate the site, sending collected funds to Dinesh using Western Union Money Transfer, who has guaranteed that money transfers to India are 100% sure possible.

Kari

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[z3r010]

Copied post to it's own thread and stickied

 

[Dwarf]

Donated.

 

[Kari]

Thanks John.

The PayPal payment site seems to in German, I'm going to check what I can do to change it to English.

Patience, geeks... Working on it.

Kari

 

[derekimo]

Thanks John.

The PayPal payment site seems to in German, I'm going to check what I can do to change it to English.

Patience, geeks... Working on it.

Kari

I'll keep following this Kari, I tried to donate but said I was putting an invalid amount (in german) can I just send from my paypal to yours?

 

[Dwarf]

I had no problems once I figured it out. I guessed that it would be in either Finnish or German, since those are your main languages.

Anyhow, here are the instructions.

Donate « Wedding present for Dinesh & Kavita (now displays in English)

Click on one of the Donate buttons. (now also including GBP)



Enter an amount in the box and click Summe neu berechnen or Update Totals.



Finally, enter your email address in the E-Mail_Adresse: or Email: box and your password in the Passwort: or Password: box and click Einloggen or Log In to continue.



Follow the instructions on your PayPal page.

 

[Kari]

Important update!

The site is now updated and should appear in English.

You can choose to donate in USD, GBP and EUR. The payment page should now appear in English. Please notice that to get this working, the system assumes you are from USA if choosing USD, in UK if choosing GBP and in Ireland if choosing EUR (only English speaking Euro country I could think of).

Pay attention to change the actual country from drop down list on page.

Kari

 

[derekimo]

It's working in english, and USD now. Congratulations Dinesh and Kavita!

 

[Hopalong X]

Donated Kari so verify Eileen R. payment.
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You also have to enter amount then click Update total. Then log in.

Follow Steps circled in yellow below. 1-2-3.

Mike

 

[Kari]

Mike, it's verified and received.

For all who want to check the current situation, here's direct link to Who's donated page.

I think it's not right to list who has donated how much because we all have different life situations and means. A $10 donation from one person can be relatively as big as a $100 donation from some other. Publishing the exact amount from each donor would therefore be wrong in my opinion. Instead, the page shows the total amount collected and the names of the donors.

If the majority wants it, I'm going to publish individual sums, too, but at least at the moment I'm personally against it.

I've also checked the Western Union Money Transfer costs. To save some money in costs, I'm going to send the money collected by Sunday March 20th to Dinesh on Tuesday 22nd (it takes a day or two to transfer the money first to my account), and thereafter every second Tuesday until the big day. As a small pre-wedding present I am going to pay the money transfer costs. I'm going to attend the wedding, being invited , so before I then fly back on May 9th I'm going together with Dinesh to check to final amount transferring it to him.

Kari

 

[Hopalong X]

I agree. No amounts showing sounds good.

Payment schedule sounds good to me also.

Mike

 

[Dwarf]

Looks good to me. I agree with not showing individual amounts and only showing the accumulated total.

 

[boohbah]

I tried early this morning to donate via the godonate and was out of luck on our card so i will try later when lois comes back with the bankcard, we have one between us in her name . im a pennypacker you see but i gladly donate to a good cause , i have a wedding of my own to save for so i have to take care of my spends .
congrats Dinesh and Kavita
edit . done now i also agree about keeping the discretion ,not evryone is finacialy sound,
any amount is welcome.

 

[z3r010]

BTW I will also give a supporters badge to anybody who makes a donation that hasn't already got one (remember there is a 3 badge maximum).

As this isn't an automated process just LMK after you have donated and I will add the badge to your account.

 

[Kari]

Nice move, John Currently all donors already are SF supporters, only our dear moderator Dwarf is not showing Supporter badge but I suspect that's because of there's no more room for badges

Over 100 individual visitors in past 3 hours, almost €600 donated. It's a nice start; Dinesh does not need the money as much as a present than really to pay the costs already before the wedding, plus the reception on the big day, so the sooner he gets the money and certainty it gives him, the better.

This is going to be one really fun project! I am astonished and happy to see how well liked and popular Dinesh is among us. The wedding party is going to Guinness Book of Records as the most international wedding party in history, considering that people from almost every country and continent are there if not in person but in spirit

Kari

 

[Dwarf]

I did have the Supporter badge at one time, although as you correctly state there is only room for a maximum of 3 badges to be displayed.

 

[Hopalong X]

Sevenforums version of a "Royal Wedding"




Kari

Don't forget to stop with that charter jumbo jet on this side of the pond to pick up all the "Yanks".

 

[Dinesh]

Thank you for all the support guys. Me n Kavita dont have words to thank you all for this great favour.

 

[Kari]

Dinesh, I just realized I need to rethink the bachelor party plans I had. I mean, it's fun to party together, doing "Mumbai by Night" with you but the goal must be that Kavita still answers "I do" the following day... And that my Mrs. will fly back on same plane than me

Don't forget to stop with that charter jumbo jet on this side of the pond to pick up all the "Yanks".

Flying Swissair coach from Zurich, only luxury being possible upgrade with points due to that I have recently traveled so little I'm risking some points expiring if I'm not using them

 

[Joan Archer]

I'm another that thinks its a good idea to not put the actual amount down for each person. I'll be donating in the next couple of days, as someone said earlier Dinesh is well liked by us all and I think this is just a small way of showing him how much we do like him.

To Dinesh and Kavita on their special day.