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Originally posted by Leo
Giving the money to a charity means that it may get stolen or just used to pay their costs, the people you really want to help won't get anything.
Not true!
Legit, decent charities do not steal money, and your donations do get to the people in need. In fact, the charities more far better than anyone else to where the money should go. And money is not always what the people in need need; The charities will buy the stuff the people need with the money you send.
Of course there are bad examples which call themself "charities", but they should in no way taken as an example for the legit decent charities.
Don't generalize...
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Originally posted by Super Dude
I would put some money forward, but only if its not with Paypal. They are a bunch of money-stealing arseholes who take money away from good people (like the SomethingAwful.com money drive for Hurrican Katrina... what the eff!)
That rant from somethingawful only shows how close minded they are. Paypal is very legit and trustable. In fact, what they did is what every company would do. They are absolutely very right to temporarly freeze (not close down!!!!) an account which raises such an amount of money in no time. They are absolutely correct in stating that there is a lot of abuse. Any right minded person would understand why they do this.
And I'm very sure that the rant also is often an overstatement of what truely happened and only shows one (maybe twisted) side of the story; that is what rants are afterall...
And the photo's between that text also aren't much proof of a good mature unbiased opinion about all this.
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Originally posted by Leo
If you really want to give money away, go to a local shelter and give it to the person you want to help. Or better yet, give them food, blankets, etc.
That is indeed another possebility.
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Originally posted by Super Dude
Paypal = Not trustworthy at all!
Paypal is very trustworthy
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Originally posted by John Anderton
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Originally posted by damm-o
and if they are donated to patchy?
afaik patch donates to charity already 
I remember reading somewhere on msgplus.net about him donating to red cross for the tsunami victims.
Indeed, but Patchou donates money all the time to the Red Cross in name of Messenger Plus! when people buy something from the
online Plus! store. The donation for the tsunami victims was a special additional donation.
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