Kutta comments on 2012 Winter Fundraiser for the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 06 December 2012 10:41PM

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Comment author: Kutta 07 December 2012 11:40:55AM *  24 points [-]

I donated 250$.

Update: No, I apparently did not. For some reason the transfer from Google Checkout got rejected, and now PayPal too. Does anyone have an idea what might've gone wrong? I've a Hungarian bank account. My previous SI donations were fine, even with the same credit card if I recall correctly, and I'm sure that my card is still prefectly valid.

Comment author: philh 07 December 2012 07:38:05PM *  17 points [-]

I'm having the same problem. I used the card to buy modafinil yesterday, which might raise a red flag in fraud detection software? But if you're having it too, I'd update in the direction of it being a problem on SIAI's end.

Has anyone successfully donated since Kutta posted?

edit - Amazon is declining my card as well.

edit 2 - It's sorted out now, just donated £185.

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 08 December 2012 12:24:52AM 5 points [-]

I'm looking into this now, can you send me an email at michael@intelligence.org so we can share any further details necessary to work out the problem?

Comment author: philh 08 December 2012 01:21:52AM 3 points [-]

Email sent.

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 08 December 2012 04:06:00AM 7 points [-]

After investigating the issue, it proved to be a problem on Kutta's side, not ours.

Comment author: Kutta 08 December 2012 08:33:02AM *  5 points [-]

Thanks for your effort. I'll contact my bank.

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 08 December 2012 12:43:14AM 6 points [-]

I just verified that donations in general are working via PayPal and Google Checkout. We'll investigate this specific issue to see where the problem is.