Hello to all,
I can't believe it has been almost 1 year since we moved the FMTuners group from Yahoo to groups.io
The renewal date is October 16, about 2 weeks away. The current renewal price has remained unchanged at $110. USD. We are currently using about 2.6 GB out of 20 GB allowed. The cap for a "free" group is under 1 GB. As you may recall, we are apparently grandfathered in at the $110. yearly rate, as groups that transferred after 10/30/19 or so had to pay about $200 yearly.
 
If you want to retain the current files, and group options, we need to figure out a method to fund the group going forward. I would like to keep it somewhat easy on my side - perhaps 12 people donate $9, or something easy like that. They have a donation system built into the groups system here, but last check, it did not take Paypal. And it required people donating to set up a new account with an payment system that likely none of us currently use.
 
Any other ideas? Besides the group file size limit, I'm not 100% sure what other group features we lose if we go to free mode. The easiest thing is to keep going as we are now.
Bob

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Hello to all,
I can't believe it has been almost 1 year since we moved the FMTuners group from Yahoo to groups.io
The renewal date is October 16, about 2 weeks away. The current renewal price has remained unchanged at $110. USD. We are currently using about 2.6 GB out of 20 GB allowed. The cap for a "free" group is under 1 GB. As you may recall, we are apparently grandfathered in at the $110. yearly rate, as groups that transferred after 10/30/19 or so had to pay about $200 yearly.
 
If you want to retain the current files, and group options, we need to figure out a method to fund the group going forward. I would like to keep it somewhat easy on my side - perhaps 12 people donate $9, or something easy like that. They have a donation system built into the groups system here, but last check, it did not take Paypal. And it required people donating to set up a new account with an payment system that likely none of us currently use.
 
Any other ideas? Besides the group file size limit, I'm not 100% sure what other group features we lose if we go to free mode. The easiest thing is to keep going as we are now.
Bob

On Sep 28, 2020, at 12:06 PM, newaag via groups.io <newaag@...> wrote:

Hello to all,
I can't believe it has been almost 1 year since we moved the FMTuners group from Yahoo to groups.io
The renewal date is October 16, about 2 weeks away. The current renewal price has remained unchanged at $110. USD. We are currently using about 2.6 GB out of 20 GB allowed. The cap for a "free" group is under 1 GB. As you may recall, we are apparently grandfathered in at the $110. yearly rate, as groups that transferred after 10/30/19 or so had to pay about $200 yearly.
 
If you want to retain the current files, and group options, we need to figure out a method to fund the group going forward. I would like to keep it somewhat easy on my side - perhaps 12 people donate $9, or something easy like that. They have a donation system built into the groups system here, but last check, it did not take Paypal. And it required people donating to set up a new account with an payment system that likely none of us currently use.
 
Any other ideas? Besides the group file size limit, I'm not 100% sure what other group features we lose if we go to free mode. The easiest thing is to keep going as we are now.
Bob

Looking more closely at the built-in donation capability for groups.io - It uses Stripe, which I now understand only requires one person, the group owner, to have a Stripe account. Everyone else can pay by typical online methods - all major credit cards, apple pay, google pay, etc. - but not Paypal.
Are you guys OK with paying by credit card to donate via Stripe ? It certainly makes it easy, as it is integrated into the group. 
Bob
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Looking more closely at the built-in donation capability for groups.io - It uses Stripe, which I now understand only requires one person, the group owner, to have a Stripe account. Everyone else can pay by typical online methods - all major credit cards, apple pay, google pay, etc. - but not Paypal. 
Are you guys OK with paying by credit card to donate via Stripe ? It certainly makes it easy, as it is integrated into the group. 
Bob

On Sep 28, 2020, at 12:25 PM, Richard Weisman <richard.weisman@...> wrote:



How can I send you $10?

Richard

 

From: FMtuners@groups.io <FMtuners@groups.io> On Behalf Of newaag via groups.io
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 12:07 PM
To: FMtuners@groups.io
Subject: [FMtuners] Funding the FM Tuners Group

 

Hello to all,
I can't believe it has been almost 1 year since we moved the FMTuners group from Yahoo to groups.io
The renewal date is October 16, about 2 weeks away. The current renewal price has remained unchanged at $110. USD. We are currently using about 2.6 GB out of 20 GB allowed. The cap for a "free" group is under 1 GB. As you may recall, we are apparently grandfathered in at the $110. yearly rate, as groups that transferred after 10/30/19 or so had to pay about $200 yearly.
 
If you want to retain the current files, and group options, we need to figure out a method to fund the group going forward. I would like to keep it somewhat easy on my side - perhaps 12 people donate $9, or something easy like that. They have a donation system built into the groups system here, but last check, it did not take Paypal. And it required people donating to set up a new account with an payment system that likely none of us currently use.
 
Any other ideas? Besides the group file size limit, I'm not 100% sure what other group features we lose if we go to free mode. The easiest thing is to keep going as we are now.
Bob

Virus-free. www.avg.com

Path of least resistance sounds like an appropriate solution, group leadership has enough to do otherwise.
Just let us know how to and where. I'm good for one month of whatever the annual ticket comes to.

Cheers,
Larry


At 11:35 AM 9/28/2020, newaag via groups.io wrote:

Looking more closely at the built-in donation capability for groups.io - It uses Stripe, which I now understand only requires one person, the group owner, to have a Stripe account. Everyone else can pay by typical online methods - all major credit cards, apple pay, google pay, etc. - but not Paypal.
Are you guys OK with paying by credit card to donate via Stripe ? It certainly makes it easy, as it is integrated into the group.
Bob

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