From mark at kingant.net  Fri Jun  3 04:13:59 2011
From: mark at kingant.net (Mark Doliner)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 01:13:59 -0700
Subject: Vote to close credit card processing accounts.
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I counted 5 votes in favor of closing credit card processing with
Pinnacle Processing Group and Authorize.net and 0 votes against.  So
it passed, right?

Ethan, I feel like you might be the most appropriate person to tackle
that.  You haven't done it already, have you?  Would you want to?  Do
you have all the information you need?

--Mark

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From elb at pidgin.im  Fri Jun  3 11:16:02 2011
From: elb at pidgin.im (Ethan Blanton)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:16:02 -0400
Subject: Vote to close credit card processing accounts.
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Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I counted 5 votes in favor of closing credit card processing with
> Pinnacle Processing Group and Authorize.net and 0 votes against.  So
> it passed, right?
> 
> Ethan, I feel like you might be the most appropriate person to tackle
> that.  You haven't done it already, have you?  Would you want to?  Do
> you have all the information you need?

I would be, but I cannot.  Sean is the point of contact for this,
because the setup predates the current organization of IM Freedom.

Ethan
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From mark at kingant.net  Mon Jun  6 03:03:40 2011
From: mark at kingant.net (Mark Doliner)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:03:40 -0700
Subject: T-Shirts
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I compared a cheap t-shirt with an image on both the front and back at
Zazzle and at Spreadshirt.  Zazzle calls their shirt "value,"
Spreadshirt calls theirs "standard weight."

The shirt at Zazzle was $15.70 + $1.61ish tax + $6.48 shippinghandling = $23.79.
The shirt at Spreadshirt was $14.90 + $4.50 shippinghandling = $19.40.

For both of them we can tack on a commission of our choosing.  The
minimum commission at Zazzle is 10%.  I think the minimum at
Spreadshirt is $0.

I made a store on Zazzle a while ago and it's still up.  You can see
it at http://www.zazzle.com/imfreedom  I don't think we've sold
anything, so we have zero earnings.  If we had earnings (over $25 I
think) they can either pay us via PayPal or mail us a check.  And I
think they pay maybe monthly.

I made some trial shirts on Spreadshirt a long time ago.  You can see
the store at http://markdoliner.spreadshirt.com/ (fair warning: it
might be hard for commission on stuff from this store to go to IMF, so
I don't recommend buying things from there if you're trying to donate
to IMF).

It looks like Spreadshirt is a little cheaper, and the barrier to
entry is basically nothing, so it seems like it makes sense for us to
create an account there and direct people to the Spreadshirt store.
Maybe I'll order a shirt and if it looks acceptable then I'll link to
it from a blog post in our planet/news aggregator?

In the board meeting I think Zac and raised the possibility of Pidgin
piggybacking off of Adium's Spreadshirt account?  We could do that...
but it seems like it's just as easy to just create a separate account?
 I don't have a good feel for the tradeoffs involved in using two
stores owned by a single account versus two accounts with a single
store each.

--Mark

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From mark at kingant.net  Sun Jun 12 14:17:54 2011
From: mark at kingant.net (Mark Doliner)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:17:54 -0700
Subject: Vote to close credit card processing accounts.
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> I counted 5 votes in favor of closing credit card processing with
>> Pinnacle Processing Group and Authorize.net and 0 votes against. ?So
>> it passed, right?
>>
>> Ethan, I feel like you might be the most appropriate person to tackle
>> that. ?You haven't done it already, have you? ?Would you want to? ?Do
>> you have all the information you need?
>
> I would be, but I cannot. ?Sean is the point of contact for this,
> because the setup predates the current organization of IM Freedom.

Sean?

--Mark

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From seanegan at gmail.com  Mon Jun 13 16:39:10 2011
From: seanegan at gmail.com (Sean Egan)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:39:10 -0700
Subject: Vote to close credit card processing accounts.
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Oh, sorry, we are all closed out on these, as of last week. There's a
chance we may get one more bill from Authorize.net on July 1st (I
don't think we will, though -- it sounds like we'd only get billed for
payment fees that get batched up during the month).


On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
>> Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
>>> I counted 5 votes in favor of closing credit card processing with
>>> Pinnacle Processing Group and Authorize.net and 0 votes against. ?So
>>> it passed, right?
>>>
>>> Ethan, I feel like you might be the most appropriate person to tackle
>>> that. ?You haven't done it already, have you? ?Would you want to? ?Do
>>> you have all the information you need?
>>
>> I would be, but I cannot. ?Sean is the point of contact for this,
>> because the setup predates the current organization of IM Freedom.
>
> Sean?
>
> --Mark
>

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