PayPal and St Jude Auctions

[Gdpolk]

There has been some changes in staffing at St. Jude.  I'm working on getting a new system down for having St. Jude give TradGang credit for our event.  We have our name on the wall at their donation center and part of that comes from keeping track of donations found through this site.  Until we can establish a streamlined behind the scenes process with their new employees and myself, y'all just email me actual receipts.  Having the actual receipts will allow us to verify payments here on Trad Gang but more importantly help us work behind the scenes with St. Jude to make certain Trad Gang gets the recognition for each donation that was sent through this charity fundraising event.  There is a lot going on behind the scenes so y'all just hang with us please. 

I have updated the AFTER AUCTION PAYMENT INFO sticky at the top of each auction forum page to include my email address for you guy's receipts.  This information can be seen below as well.

As the person who gets to sort out all of the PayPal transactions, I ask that you please include the following information in the notes of the transactions.  Without these details, it will be much, much more difficult for me to sort through hundreds of transactions and match buyers with donors and confirm payments.

To Pay via PayPal or card...
1) Pay with PayPal straight through the St. Jude Donation Page Here:
https://www.stjude.org/donate/donate-to-st-jude.html?sc_icid=header-btn-donate-now

2) Click the "print a receipt" link

3) Send a PDF file, screenshot, or clear/high resolution picture from your phone of the receipt direct from St. Jude to my email at [email protected].  Anyone who fails to send an automated receipt or screenshot of it will have to wait on St Jude to send me their reports for me to clear their items for shipping.

4) Include in the email the following information:

*Forum 1/2/3/4 - there are typically multiple forums of donations and sometimes things like Big Jims Bows may have multiple donations spread throughout the multiple bid forums to give everyone multiple chances at such items

*TG Auction for "whatever you bid on" - "TG Auction" will help St. Jude's send me accurate reports of who donated and the "for ..." will help me locate the items on the auction listing

*forum name/handle - this identifies you as the bidder

*your mailing address - this is for me to forward to those who donated via PM


So for example if I bid on a Big Jims Custom Bow that was listed on the first bid forum, the email would have the receipt attached and would read something like:

Forum 1
TG Auction for Big Jims Custom Bow
GDPolk

Garrett Polk
1234 Street Address
City, State, Zip Code

[Gdpolk]

You all get to paying and playing soon.  I'll try to log on daily and sort through payments as I can. 

Thank you to every donor and everyone who participated with bids.

[Huntschool]

Garrett:

So, should we wait for some conclusion or try and get this through thei site.  When I was there before there was no way to list comments.....

[Sockrsblur]

PayPal wouldn’t let me send money now so I guess I’ll use the Ol mail box 

[Walt Francis]

Garrett,

Thanks for handling the PayPal side of St, Jude's, it is much appreciated.

To everybody who supported this years auction with donations, bidding, or cheering:

 

Anybody who who prefers to pay by mail to insure TradGang get's credit, send your check or money order, PAYABLE TO ST. JUDE'S to me.  My mailing information is included in the payment instructions at the top of each bidding forum.  Please include the information as requested by Garrett above to assist with the processing.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me by PM or email.  I will do my best to respond within one day.

[Gdpolk]

Garrett:

So, should we wait for some conclusion or try and get this through thei site.  When I was there before there was no way to list comments.....

If it won't let you comment just email me the receipt with the comments.  I'll personally follow up with St. Jude and provide them every receipt that's emailed to me so TradGang gets credit there.

[Huntschool]

I used the address above and after filling out the $$$ and info it told me that St. Jude only accepts payment through their site so that must be a different addy then the one you listed.

Help

[Gdpolk]

I used the address above and after filling out the $$$ and info it told me that St. Jude only accepts payment through their site so that must be a different addy then the one you listed.

Help

Lets just go direct to the St. Jude website from here on out and simplify it.  Their site allows the use of PayPal and/or credit cards and kicks out all the receipts we need to pair transactions behind the scenes.  Instead of having multiple ways to pay online I vote just go direct to the source and streamline it from here on out.

[Gdpolk]

I've currently cleared $3621.16 in PayPal transactions for the kids.