Disputing a donation to the gnucash project?

[Michael W. Carney]

On 09/15/2010 06:06 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I received an email from your donation, and then received a message from
> paypal that you are disputing your donation.  What's up with that?
>
> I'm sorry for bringing this up publically, but frankly in the years
> we've been accepting donations you are the first to dispute it!
>
> -derek


Derek,

The paypal receipt I received states that my donation payment went to 
IHTFP Consulting, Inc. Intrigued, I went to IHTFP's website, and there's 
no mention of gnucash there. I only learned that IHTFP is *your* 
consulting group. Not at all what I expected.

My previous gnucash donation paypal payments list 
give-to-project at sourceforge.net as the "seller", with "gnucash" in the 
description.

I disputed the transaction because I thought it was being misdirected to 
something other than a gnucash donation. Seems like a reasonable move to 
make given the above.

Also, the paypal dispute email that was sent to you lists the following 
comment:

"I was attempting to donate $20.00 to gnucash at sourceforge.net, and 
instead the donation was sent to IHTFP Consulting, Inc., the *wrong* 
recipient. I would like my donation refunded, so that I can apply it to 
the intended recipient.

Thanks."

You could have simply responded to the dispute and clarified that the 
donation was in fact going to the right place and saved gnucash-devel 
this exchange. Although that would have meant you would have missed the 
chance to publicly humiliate me.

Mike