#1 here. On Thursday, April 23rd, we posted about committing to rescue a kitten from Lebanon and setting up a fundraising campaign through GoFundMe to meet the associated costs. Our friends were amazing in contributing to the campaign and the necessary funds were raised within a week. However, GoFundMe hijacked the funds, on the pretence of checking the genuineness of my campaign, and has not paid me a single Euro. I provided them with all the extra information they requested immediately. That was several weeks ago. Since then, they have not responded to any of my numerous messages. There is no way to contact them by phone, and AI seems to handle all chat and email enquiries. In the end, I gave up and cancelled the campaign, and all donors should be getting refunds in the coming week. The situation regarding the kitten is still the same, however, and I still need the funds, so here we go again with a different fundraising platform, this one based in Europe. I am crossing my fingers for your ongoing support to help me get the kitten over here. Here is the link to the new campaign: https://whydonate.com/fundraising/help-rescue-noura-the-kitten
I am still in shock over GoFundMe's viciousness. I have since found out that they are being sued by a number of registered charities in California for arbitrarily setting up fundraisers in their names without consulting them. There is clearly something very wrong with these people.
In the hope that this will all work out in the end, here are a couple of pics of a double rainbow we had here the other day.



We will certainly do what we can for little Noura.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry for all your trouble.
Shame on GoFundMe! The rainbow and the poppies are just beautiful♥
ReplyDeleteI hope that rainbow is a good sign that the new program will allow you to accept your money that's been donated. I think that's disgusting of GoFundMe.
ReplyDeleteEven though you had said you were closing it and we would receive refund$, I wrote and let them have it last night -
ReplyDeleteH&K&W
Willow
PeeEssWoo Hi Ollie - we have SUN again - but only for today -
Tried to send $50. Hope it went through. Linda
ReplyDeleteI think you must have been the anonymous donor? Thank you so much!
DeletePrayers for your fundraising! The double rainbow sure is pretty!
ReplyDeleteGrrr, this makes me so angry!
ReplyDeleteAm sad that you've had to go through this.
We are happy to donate to your fundraiser and hope you can get little Noura home soon.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the new fundraiser, I just went and donated. GoFundMe is just being stupid.
ReplyDeleteEff Off GoFundMe, here in the US it is overused for stuff, probably not all legit. So for anything outside the US they must be getting super careful. Glad you have an alternate method to get funds for Noura.
ReplyDeleteJanet and Dobby
Java Bean: "Ayyy, boo on GoFundMe for that bad behavior! We had no idea they had such a reputation!"
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "We sure hope little Noura finds her way to you soon!"