I have set up the following announcement on all forums...
As I'm sure most of you are aware by now, Rob has recently had a major disaster in his tank and has lost most of his corals that he's been growing for several years. (See thread and podcast)
Unfortunately, this is something that can happen to any of us, for various reasons.
Steve of Coral Dynamics has been so generous as to help me set up a Disaster Relief Fund for Rob. Steve will then add $50 to our donations to help get Rob started up again. If you find it in your heart and wallet to help out a friend in need, please do so with any amount that you find appropriate. Rob has been a priceless resource for all of the Talking Reef members and has donated enormous amounts of his own time and money to help all of us. Let's all pitch in and help him get his tank up and running again!
To help:
You can go directly to Donate to Rob to make your contribution
ive tried like 8 times to send, i keep getting time-out errors. WTF , surely it cant be my slow-ass connection! anyone else experiencing this or am i standing in the open again!
Hi Christi, thanks for putting this together. I will simply provide the collection point for Rob. You can also post the page that is at the Coral Dynamics site on your other sites where you all see fit.
yeah well, shucks, only i could stuff a simple 3 stage process!
its
TIMING OUT AGAIN.
show me a back door guys, cause my computers not wise to the ways of pay pal! i almost feel like i need permission just to access the net! lol. if its a connection speed thing i can try when im at work, although when i last membered up it was fine! i think i need to pluck a tuff of chest hair and blow it from my fingers to call my monkey cloud of speed!
I am not sure why PayPal is a problem on the dialup connection. If you want to, you can use a Gift Certificate Purchase and just be sure to note on there that it is to be included in Robs Disaster Releif Fund.
yeah, what can u do, i tried again just now, its crazy, same thing keeps happening. got to be from my end for sure. i looked at the CoralD E_Gifts, (Thanks Steve)
i seemed to incure postage though, & my tolerance is limited to the Sh$#%y conversion rate only. So ive decieded to try tommorow at work. if not i'll do it as the rest of the real world does and transfer in manually!
We currently have 1010 members, if only for the fact that rob works so hard to contaminate the airwaves i dont see why we cant raise at least $10 from every member. its like giving 1hour of your life back for a dude thats given thousands.
if that cant raise him from gunk container situation nothing will! just as long as he doesn't make a habbit of it, im happy to help out a mate!
i looked at the CoralD E_Gifts, (Thanks Steve)
i seemed to incure postage though,
You are welcome...though there should not have been any shipping charges...I looked, and corrected the problem with that. sorry for the problem and thanx for finding the bug for me!
__________________ Stephen Pollock
Coral Dynamics, Inc.
704-517-8756
success, works network speed makes all the difference!
just added $100US to the kitty! taking into account transfer times the pot should grow incrimentally, steve it might be worthwhile giving 3day updates instead!
your a cool sponsor steve, your taking those extra steps that dont go un-noticed, thanks alot for contributing to our site! just quietly though because im not in america & havn't frequented your site much,would i be mistaken in saying i didn't see a TR logo in the page u linked, or does sponsorship work both ways?
i shouldn't get to cheeky with the sponsors now should I! lol
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