Hello,

I've paid the $30 for the 1 year membership in September, but my account shows that it expired on December 29th.

"Membership Type

You are a Standard member. Your premium membership expired on Friday 29th December 2017."

What's the deal?

Here is my info as shown on my account:

"Payment History

"

Thanks,

The Real Yin

I'm also having trouble purchasing a premium membership. Never had any issues before and I'm using the same method. I get a message to the effect of 'please return to the source location and try another payment method'.

The Real Yin wrote:

Hello,

I've paid the $30 for the 1 year membership in September, but my account shows that it expired on December 29th.

"Membership Type

You are a Standard member. Your premium membership expired on Friday 29th December 2017."

 

What's the deal?

 

Here is my info as shown on my account:

"Payment History

Payment Date	Amount	Credited to	Status
11 Sep 17 12:47	$30	The Real Yin	Completed
14 Aug 16 11:04	$30	The Real Yin	Completed

"

 

Thanks,

The Real Yin

 

 

That's odd, your Premium Membership was showing as Active and expiring in April 2018 when I checked. I've adjusted this to October 2018 to account for a full year's membership.

Thingol wrote:

I'm also having trouble purchasing a premium membership. Never had any issues before and I'm using the same method. I get a message to the effect of 'please return to the source location and try another payment method'.

I just ran through the payment workflow and it worked OK for me. Could you possible give it another try?

Sorry about this!

For what it's worth, I frequent another site that has been having problems with the paypal widget as well.

UPDATE: There still seems to be a problem with our Paypal widget/account that makes donating -both for our fund for homless and refugees in Greece, and for the Automatic Earth itself- hard for some people. What happens is that for some a message pops up that says “This recipient does not accept payments denominated in USD”. This is nonsense, we do. We notified Paypal weeks ago.

We have no idea how many people have simply given up on donating, but we can suggest a workaround (works like a charm):

Through Paypal.com, you can simply donate to an email address. In our case that is recedinghorizons *at* gmail *com*. Use that, and your donations will arrive where they belong. Sorry for the inconvenience.

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2018/01/debt-rattle-january-6-2018/

The problem might be on paypal's end, or maybe a browser has changed something that breaks the widget. I'd try to do the payment on the browser you're using and if it fails again, try on a different browser right after, Thingol. This way you can be sure the browser is the problem.

Thanks Redshift - actually that could work fine, just send funds to [email protected] and I can credit your account manually.

I got it to work, but had to switch to another form (card) of payment. Originally, I had it going directly to my acct, which works for everything else. Weird...

Ok thanks for letting me know. Sounds like Paypal acting up for some reason.