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Old Oct 20, 2013 | 1:31 pm
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cblaisd
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Originally Posted by boberonicus
How about this?
  1. Create an email address: [email protected] (10 minutes)
  2. Open a Paypal account for that email address associated with a bank account (20 minutes)
  3. Create a well worded post that solicits donations and includes a paypal link (30 minute).
  4. Post the sticky on top of every forum for three days a month. (15 minutes / month)
No premium features needed. Watch the money roll in.
It does seem so easy, doesn't it?

And it's been suggested before:

Originally Posted by FriendlySkies
We all know that FlyerTalk was not affiliated with InsideFlyer.. I believe the question that we're all wanting to know is Why couldn't you have setup a paypal account, and then manually updated our accounts when we paid you?
Originally Posted by Dovster
How about if IB spends five minutes opening a PayPal account and then gives a year's worth of the premium service to anyone who sends in $12?
Originally Posted by cblaisd
One would think that in twenty-five months (!) this could have occurred. Especially since, as noted in that thread, a Paypal account could be set up in a day.

I really appreciate the helpfulness of the IB staff, but this is just utterly puzzling.
And it remains puzzling; one response says:

Originally Posted by IBobi
The facility for linking payments to services simply does not exist at present, since FlyerTalk is a free website.
Do not understand this comment

The previous arrangement was through a subscription to InsideFlyer, which as you know is not affiliated with FlyerTalk.

I hope you'll find the temporary solution more elegant and to your liking anyway -- even though it is taking some time.
Note that that promised "temporary solution" (whatever that means) was 21 months ago.

Another response says:

Originally Posted by IBobi
We are in the process of putting together an even better Premium package that will include Ad-Free browsing. Stay tuned!
However, note that that was twenty-six months ago!

I like and appreciate the IB staff, but I simply do not get why this so difficult and why there is such silence about this.
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