...have been cancelled until further notice
The reason being that our account is now a minus figure - the prize we had given to us for winning the competition has been taken back after a credit card chargeback was initiated by the judge who donated it and even though I explained it was a donation as a prize and the person admitted it was a mistake to do the chargeback - they still did it, and also took a further £7 charge for the process!
So I don't want peoples money going in there to cover that 'debt', if the money isn't given back to us to bring our account back to what it was then I will simply open a new paypal account and they can go whistle for the 'negative balance' to be resolved!

What wankers!!!! How can they do that, the entire competition was a complete joke



I did wonder why it had been cancelled

I totally agree Mandy! I was not impressed when i saw red on our paypal account!

i persume your asking them to pay the debt the site is now in,

what a pain in the rear

Yup I have Clare...I hope its sorted quickly!
Either way I am looking at opening a proper bank account for banda, so we can get free banking for a while (then move banks lol) - that way people can just set up direct debits and we don't get charged
I hadn't realised that although the paypal fee isn't too bad on higher amounts going in....for each 50p donation we got they took 28p - that must be the minimum fee...but they are sneaky and the main screen you see never shows the fee - just the gross...so its not obvious what fees they take til you actually go and check!
If we get a bank account then there will be no fees at all!

How shit! So when people donated 50p BANDA only got 22p???

Yup it turns out that way - not many people did the 50ps luckily...but still a charge of 28p is ridiculous as a minimum charge!

oh my, never realised that, thats not helpful at all, dont blame you for looking at a bank account hun

thats a bit shit isn't it!



stupid competition!!

I had a thread open from when the money was first taken...but now Ive commented again to say about the £22 being taken they have locked it and said 'Please take this to email or PM, this shouldn't be handled in public.'


ermmmm why not?! We won the prize on here - its YOUR responsibility!
I am VERY much looking at moving the forum to another host - the downside is we'd lose the last years worth of posts... dont think its worth starting again?!

I duno, its a tricky one. I wouldnt mind so much losing posts but I suppose mummys who regularly post in birth clubs/what toddler ate or learnt might be disappointed.

I dont see why they want you to PM. Have they Emailed or PM's you to resolve it? They know your annoyed so they should act on it. I dont even fully understand what you mean by the whole credit card charge back thing, is it forumotions fault or paypals?

Little shites !!!!!! Im so angry and annoyed for you Lisa x

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I duno, its a tricky one. I wouldnt mind so much losing posts but I suppose mummys who regularly post in birth clubs/what toddler ate or learnt might be disappointed.

I dont see why they want you to PM. Have they Emailed or PM's you to resolve it? They know your annoyed so they should act on it. I dont even fully understand what you mean by the whole credit card charge back thing, is it forumotions fault or paypals?

The judge/mod paid it from his own credit card, and was then reimbursed by forumotion - he then did a chargeback for that amount, he phoned paypal to tell them to cancel the chargeback, but it would appear that somewhere along the line somene hasn't done what they have said they have done and we've ended up charged £7 for the priveledge of having our prize removed!

HI hunni.

I think forumotion have proper fooooked you over on this one. We clearly don't fit into their demographic of sad losers!

I agree it would be a shame to lose our "history" as it were but if we were forwarned and could retrieve whatever memories we wanted to keep I don't think I would mind so much but obviously I can't speak for other ladies who have been active on here longer.

Are you very keen to avoid all advertising banners? OH says there are a lot of hosts who are free and have very small banners - for example forumco.com only put one banner across the bottom of the first message in the thread and it's not really any bigger than a lot of our collections of tickers in our signature bars. You should be able to take a lot of your coding straight across so all your hard work on this site would not be in vain.

Whatever you decide I'm right behind you x