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@Velocio
It's worth re-capping where the May Donation Drive left us.
Basically, we covered the debt, we paid for May, we raised enough for June and a week into July (with the affiliates factored in)... but we didn't put ourselves significantly ahead.
Importantly we did increase the number of monthly subscriptions, and that should mean that in the next 10 days we should we should see the effect of that and then I reckon it should cover July too. So we are safe, we are back into being cool again, and mostly this is because of renewed monthly subscriptions.
I want to say a big thank you to the people who made large donations. Most of the catchup was made by those donations.
I also looked at eBay, and it's true that in September they changed the calculations and that hit us badly. The major impact is that people make impulse Buy-It-Now purchases of lower priced things, but take time for the higher priced things. The result is that we are only earning commissions from the lowest priced items. In May, 1 bike got purchased in the 24 hour window that we would get paid for, and that amounted to a quarter of the money we earned from eBay. So the changes eBay made in September appear to be permanent, and have removed the lion's share of our income. Bummer.