Check/money order payments

[denise]

We have an important update for those who choose to pay us by check or money order: starting today, we've had to place a minimum dollar value order amount of $20USD on carts that are being paid by check or money order. This is because our mail forwarding service has raised both their annual subscription rates and their charge for forwarding mail significantly since we signed up with them, and for any check/money order payment under $20, too much of the payment would be taken up with those costs and we would wind up losing money overall. The number of people using check/money order payment is very small, but we're pretty determined to keep the option for those of you who don't have credit cards easily available; nearly everyone who does pay by check/money order pays for a year of services at a time, so we don't think this change will affect many people overall, but it is necessary in order for us to be able to keep offering the payment method as an option. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience to anyone this affects, though.

While I have you here and since I'm about to flood our notification system anyway[1]: as usual, we will be offering our annual December points bonus of 10% the completed cart value sent to you as points to use on a future order. I'll announce that one formally when we get there, but thought it was worth letting you know in advance since I was here already!

[1] Posting a dw_news post can delay notifications sitewide for an hour or two, due to the extremely high volume of emails generated whenever we post one. Your comment emails may be delayed for a little while after I post this. It was posted at 3:45PM EST/2045 UTC (view in your timezone). Please don't worry about missing notifications until at least two hours from now. You may receive multiple copies of this email notification due to a bug we're still trying to squash [2]: we apologize, and we're still holding out hope we'll be able figure that out and fix it.

[2] (The duplicate notification problem that affects news posts is unrelated to the problem where a few people were getting duplicate notifications for everything this week: that one should be fixed. Duplicate emails for a news post is a different issue! Our notification system is very old and very cranky.)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Very, very old. Very, very cranky.

[ysay]

Sooo excited for that December points bonus ♥
Thanks for all that you do to remain accessible.

[pushkin666]

For a user who doesn't live in the US or have a credit card it would be great to have some other way of paying for an account. As it is I have to rely on friends buying me a yearly paid account for my birthday which tbh is pretty embarrassing at my age!

[morrow]

Will you ever add the option to pay via PayPal?

[sorcyress]

Adding to the voices who say they really appreciate you offering this option, as well as appreciation of your priorities, re: paypal. Thank you!

[bastun]

Off-topic, but, as a European, it's really so odd to see checks as an apparently viable option for standard payments, in 2022. I mean, I think we still have a checkbook somewhere in the house, but I've not written one in... maybe a decade? 15 years?

[pauamma]

Is it too late to ask you to point out that earlier this year, Dreamwidth got old enough to have a Dreamwidth account of its own?

[ariaflame]

And it was at this point that I realised in the chaos of this year, I had not actually spotted the reminder that I hadn't renewed my account. Fix fix fix.

[juliet316]

Odd. I never got a notification for this post in my inbox.