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Thanks Gris, good to know.
The Square app, which is probably what they are using
Ah, that's the funny part. It was a propriety app. Nice and blue with the UN logo in it. After looking in the App Store, not available to the general public. The app was basically adding you to a mailing list, asking for lots of info, in addition to getting credit card info. That's what really got my Spidey Senses tingling.
Odds are high, it was all fine. I just try to minimize my risk to identity theft. It's happened to me twice now. Really don't want a third time.
It's fine to be cautious. If you're interested in donating, I'm sure you can do so directly with whatever method feels safest to you.
Zn general I don't donate to charities hanging out in public places (including in front of stores) or w ho call on the phone. If you seek them out at least you know that they represent the charity they claim and can also check to make sure it is not one of those charities that keep most of what is collected for themselves and only disburse a fraction of what they collect.
If I was at a farmers market or someplace where tiny vendors were legit, I'd pay by credit card on Square of such if that was the most convenient payment method.
I agree with Liese. If it was Square or paypal, I'd feel like that was on the level. Otherwise...?
Especially not taking cash is shady. OK I know a lot of doctors don't take cash. But for a retailer to refuse cash?
I can get a charity not taking cash as there is no way to track cash. Online donations go straight to the charity account. When we did our silent auction tracking the cash payments was the most challenging part and we had something to track against. With just taking donations in front of a store, I can see the allure from the side of the charity.
Turn on autocorrect in the Chrome browser:
Enable Autocorrect on Your Desktop with Chrome
Only works with Windows, Linux and the Chrome OS so I haven't tried it myself.
I have a question on PC/Mac convertibility. We have an old PC that's about to give up the ghost after I've forgotten how many years (at least 5 or 6). Over time, we bought a couple of Seagate external hard drives to hold information (family photos and the like).
So we're shopping for a replacement, and Apple is an option. But we're worried that we might not be able to access our existing info on an Apple when we've stored it on (or maybe via is a better word -- I'm not sure) a PC?
Macs can mount PC-formatted drives, but you might have trouble with files over 4GB. (I think that's the limit I've encountered before - others might correct me.)
