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Collecting money for a big party.

ArcoArco Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Hey there.

I'm hosting a big party in a few months, and I need to collect the registration fee from people between now and then. I'm wondering if anyone had a suggestion for a website or service that would allow me to do this. I'd really prefer it to be free.

I could just have people send funds to my e-mail via PayPal; but that seems kind of low tech, you know?

Thanks in advance.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    You can't get like,

    cash?

    Are you inviting people you never see? Or anyone you see never sees?

    For that matter, can you collect at the party?

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  • kaliyamakaliyama Left to find less-moderated fora Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Why let paypal take the cut, anyway? How many people are you inviting?

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  • ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... ... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I don't think you're going to find anything that's completely free. If you want to avoid Paypal I guess you could ask people to mail you checks or something.

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    He's talking about the Post-PAX dinner, and it's going to be about 100 people from all over the country at 35 bucks a head. So cash isn't really an option.

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  • WezoinWezoin Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Looks like your best option is just to figure out what cut paypal would take, and add that to the cost.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    Any reason why you can't just have everyone wire it into your account?

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  • underdonkunderdonk __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2009
    PayPal

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  • ElPresPufferfishElPresPufferfish Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'll throw amazon payments out there. I've used it to pay people collecting for events before, and it seemed quite painless

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  • PracticalProblemSolverPracticalProblemSolver Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Because having people email you monies is low tech? What more do you want?

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