FYI I’ve emailed every.org to notify them of the issues people mentioned they had when attempting to donate with Bitcoin and PayPal and bank account. (I haven’t heard about any issues when donating via card.) If anyone experienced any other issues, feel free to comment here.
I posted this on another thread, but for visibility, I reported my PayPal issue to Every.org and received this reply:
Hi Avi,
Thank you so much for your generosity and participating in the #FallGivingChallenge!
Due to the sudden high volume, PayPal seems to be holding our transactions and your donations are currently stuck in “pending” for us. We are investigating the issue and will let you know when we have an update.
The match will be applied after the PayPal donation is cleared and you will receive a receipt then. We will make sure you receive both the $100 and $10 match for sharing for your first donation to Centre for Effective Altruism USA.
Thank you for the detailed feedback: we are making a change to issue receipts for PayPal donations immediately to reduce confusion.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you once again for using Every.org!
Just following up here. It seems there was an error and the donation failed to process. If you would like to retry the donation to Centre for Effective Altruism USA, the match should automatically be applied.
While resubmitting the donation with a credit card, it did indicate that I would get $100 matched. I’m not sure if this will be the case for other donors with PayPal issues, or if it’s necessary for each donor to contact every.org for help.
FYI I’ve emailed every.org to notify them of the issues people mentioned they had when attempting to donate with Bitcoin and PayPal and bank account. (I haven’t heard about any issues when donating via card.) If anyone experienced any other issues, feel free to comment here.
I posted this on another thread, but for visibility, I reported my PayPal issue to Every.org and received this reply:
I actually had to resubmit the donation:
While resubmitting the donation with a credit card, it did indicate that I would get $100 matched. I’m not sure if this will be the case for other donors with PayPal issues, or if it’s necessary for each donor to contact every.org for help.