PDAPhoneHome.com - View Single Post - Put an i760 in the hands of MR & SD

tsatryan and I talked the other day as we were trying to hammer out the best way to do this, especially since the price is still up in the air. I haven't heard back from SuperDave, so tsatryan and I determined this course of action might be best.

We will do one PayPal account to do the collection, and with each donation, we will post the Date/Time, Amount, last three digits of the transaction ID, and a running total in a thread. Since this is in one account, and you all are donating to both SD and myself (a gracious gift), I felt some kind of audit trail was needed. We aren't going to post usernames, as some people won't want them posted, and we don't want this in to a "I gave this amount and I expect something in return".

I intentionally stayed out of this thread because I wanted to have no influence in it, and from what I can see, as both suggested by tsatryan and Convergent above, think about this donation being a gift for what HAS been done, and what CAN be done in the future. We have no idea of any drawbacks to this phone, or potential problems that will be encountered, and if any of them can be fixed, so that's up in the air. As previously mentioned, you shouldn't think of your donation as a binding agreement that SD and myself will be here to fix everything, or answer all of your questions, or be your personal tech person. I have every intention of sticking around, doing the same thing I have been doing, answering questions, and trying to help out where possible, and organizing the FAQ.

So once I get a page together for donation and some simple instructions we will get it posted sometime this week. If and when this is done, and if we are short on funds of personally donated money, then whatever help Convergent/PDAPhoneHome.com gives us is greatly appreciated. The only thing we haven't discussed is if the price comes in lower than expected (the i730 was released at $719.99 for full retail). If it's lower than expected and funds are still left in the account, and since this donation was to purchase SD and myself an i760, I think the remaining funds should be given to someone else, a lottery of sorts. So if funds are greater than the two devices, we can decide on some items like MicroSD cards, screen protectors, etc. and we can have some type of lottery, and since the funds are in my PayPal account, I will purchase those items and send them to the winner. But I think we can pass this bridge if the donating funds skyrocket.

So I think it's safe to say, that we have to shoot for a fairly high number ($1400) to start, but if we have money above and beyond once the i760 is finally released, then the remaining funds will be given back to a lucky person (or few), probably using Mobihand (one of the site sponsors here). This way we keep it fair...

If people object to this, let me know, as I am still not trying to overstep my boundaries, but just trying to re-cap the discussion here, and the ones that tsatryan and I have had in the last couple of days.