I'd like to donate an amount less than $1. Is that possible?
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1@Alvar I think there's totally a point in donating any amount of money. – hytromo Jul 17 '14 at 23:45
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Still a valid question and I am interested in seeing the answers. – Seth Jul 18 '14 at 01:15
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@Alvar I just ask the question: Can I donate an amount less than 1 USD? Yes or no? – Ivi Fetita Jul 18 '14 at 14:37
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Can you explain why you want to do a donations of -1USD? – don.joey Nov 25 '14 at 20:38
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Yes You can do it.
Set all input value to 0
But in last input do this steps:
At first, Right click on the last input and select inspect element And then set the value to 0.5 (exp.)
then click on Pay with PayPal
And you will see this:
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I am quite sure this is exploiting a bug. Not sure they are going to like this. Not sure also whether their form should not use server side validation before sending it on to paypal. – don.joey Nov 26 '14 at 13:44
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2@KasiyA How is that a security risk? You're using a custom value... Also, it is clientside. You send a POST request with the values. The Canonical server then redirects you to the PayPal site with the appropriate values already in place. – Kaz Wolfe Nov 27 '14 at 07:44
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@Whaaaaaat If you are saying that paypal is thus still doing the validation, then this answer is incorrect unless we have confirmation that the paypal validation accepts this. – don.joey Nov 27 '14 at 21:28
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1@don.joey Paypal does not do any validation. The PayPal items have "custom values" enabled. This is a feature that allows any user-set value to be used for the "cost". The price you enter here is just sent to the PayPal server as the "custom value". It will accept whatever I tell it. 0.01 should also be accepted. – Kaz Wolfe Nov 27 '14 at 21:52
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Regular donation?
You cannot give less than 1$ to ubuntu via the standard contribution page.
There is probably a practical reason for this: receiving payments also costs money. If payments are small (here < 1$) it will cost more money to accept the payment/contribution than the money that Ubuntu will make with the contribution. This could be exploited and hence the form on the contribution page does not allow it.
Alternatives?
If there is a particular reason why you want to donate this amount, you could contact canonical. If not, you could try to do something good for the community (ask questions here, for instance) instead of paying something for ubuntu.
As you know Ubuntu is opensource. Here is what you could do if you really want to give your amount.
- Choose a core dev (maybe someone who maintains a package you like). Check https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev for instance
- Check whether s/he has a https://gratipay.com/ account.
- If so, you can donate very small amounts (-1$) to that person or to a number of people. This might be on a weekly basis, but I guess you could drop out quite soon.
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No, not through a donation: The website where the donation page is shown when you download Ubuntu accepts decimals in the input but it does not accept it after you confirm and will change it to a whole dollar minimum. Simple reason: it probably will cost more to accept the amount than the amount itself.
But there is a way. Sort of. The closest you get to 0.50 is through the Ubuntu shop: Kubuntu Ballpoint Pen White/Blue at the moment costs 0.63 USD (normal price is 1.11 USD). So if you consider the 0.50 USD a donation, the pen would cost you 0.13 USD. Shipping excluded...
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@don.joey yeah well. it probably will be a 0.63 usd pen with 1 or 2 usd shipping :P (I did not finish a purchase so not sure ;) ). Oh and have an upvote ;) – Rinzwind Nov 25 '14 at 20:34
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I learned about the existence of the Ubuntu shop through your post. Nice. Have one as well. – don.joey Nov 25 '14 at 20:39