(April 2, 2015 at 10:32 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: This sort of fundraising is what makes me ill. ...
I recommend that you do not look at the link again, as it continues to grow, though not as fast as in that one hour.
One of the things that strikes me about it is looking at the brilliance of the GoFundMe site. They collect, in the U.S. and Canada, 7.9% plus $0.30 per donation. At the current amount (don't look if you are good at math and reverse calculate, unless you want to know the current amount)
That is GoFundMe's take on what has been raised so far. I wish I had thought of some web site in which I were the middle man, taking a piece of everything, like PayPal and this and eBay and.....
For the total that the above is calculated from
I have not bothered to double check my calculations, but anyone interested may do so from those numbers, or they can calculate from whatever is current at the time that they check, as it will be virtually certain to be more.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
