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paul wheaton

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posted 7 years ago

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We have a new feature on permies that is connected to paypal. Please help me test it.

If you give me $1 via paypal and announce it in this thread, i will give you one piece of PIE - which will give you access to all the pie stuff: https://permies.com/wiki/pie

For the first five people, please follow this link, pay a dollar and report your experience:

https://permies.com/pp/1/gimmie-pie-now

UPDATE!: Did you get an option to use a credit card without logging in to paypal?

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Tyler Ludens

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You sent a payment of $1.00 USD to paul wheaton

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Anthony Cooley

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I gave you a dollar. I have the Paypal receipt to prove it. My experience was like pretty much everything else I've ever done with Paypal. I don't know how to tell if I got any pie though.

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No new pie has shown up on my pie page.

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Anthony Cooley

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It's a scam!! Paul's a giant bridge troll taking our dollars and keeping all the delicious pie for himself!!! ANARCHY!!! Everyone get your pitchforks!!!

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Phil Grady

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I think this needs to be tested both ways to be sure its working,

If you send me $100 i'll buy you a pie( some time)

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paul wheaton

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the idea is, that for this test, i am giving the pie manually.

It isn't that i want to be giving out pie manually, it's that I wanted to test the /pp/1/description thing. It seems to be working fine. I got an email from each of you, from paypal, alerting me that $1 has been sent and the description was "gimmie pie now"

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Tyler Ludens

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Thank you for the pie!

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Anthony Cooley

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Thanks for the pie!

Tony and Shelly
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paul wheaton

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I would like to try this again to see if people have a way of paying this without logging in to paypal. So, can you pay the $1 with a credit card, without having a paypal account?

you say "tin pot dictator" like it is a bad thing!

Jocelyn Campbell

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Here is what the screen looks like after clicking the pp link:

Note that there is no option to pay without a PayPal account.

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Jocelyn Campbell

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Checking two other places:

First, on https://richsoil.com/pdc.jsp#register, there is a "Buy Now" button, and the first image is the page after clicking that link - still no credit card option.

The second place with a PayPal button is the donate button at https://richsoil.com/paul-wheaton.jsp. I attached two images for that. The PayPal button and the initial screen after clicking that button which *does* have a credit card (non-PayPal) option.

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paul wheaton

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Devaka says this has now been fixed. Please test? People should be able to use their credit card without logging in to paypal. Screen shots would be handy!

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Jocelyn Campbell

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Tested and confirmed fixed! Yay!!

clicked on https://permies.com/pp/1/gimmie-pie-now and received this page:

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Jocelyn Campbell

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And I figured I would test the buy pie link at https://permies.com/wiki/pie while I was at it.

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William Wallace

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I tested the guest checkout feature at two different places.
The first was at https://richsoil.com/pdc.jsp#register
You can see the URL in the first paypal image (ppguest1), that the paypal url has "guest" in it.

For my second test, I clicked on the 2017 pdc and atc videos at https://richsoil.com/paul-wheaton.jsp
The resulting paypal purchase page url also has "guest" in it and functions without logging in

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ppguest1.png

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Freedom!

Because there is no spoon. Just a tiny ad:

Your suggestions have been mashed into the PIE page - wuddyathink?

https://permies.com/t/369924/suggestions-mashed-PIE-page-wuddyathink