Questions about GGIW

• How do I raise money on GGIW?
• About GGIW
• Credits!
• What's a Gimme?
• How do you pronounce 'Gimme', GGIW, etc?
• Does GGIW hold my money?
• What's the connection to PayPal?
• How does GGIW make money/What's the catch?
• What happens to money donation if GGIW goes out of business?
• I have an idea for a great new feature, how can I pass it along?

Donating Money

• How much does it cost?
• Will I be charged any hidden fees?
• Where does my money go?
• How can I be sure my donation is used for the stated purpose?
• Why is PayPal prompting me for a destination address while donating?

Receiving Money and Managing Profiles

• Do I have to use money for the stated purpose?
• What happens if a user doesn't raise their target amount?
• Will GGIW or PayPal charge me any fees to receive donations?
• How many Gimmes can I have?
• How do I cancel/delete a Gimme?
• I received a donation outside of GGIW / My balance is inaccurate, can I adjust it?
• How can I spice up my profile a little?
• How come I don't see 'Donate Now' buttons when viewing my own profile?
• I'm having problems uploading photos.

Settling Disputes

• I donated money to a user, but I changed my mind. How do I get a refund?
• Can GGIW help with PayPal disputes?
• I donated money to a user, but his/her account is now closed. How can I contact them?
• A user has posted harassing comments on my profile. What should I do?

Legal, Privacy and Security Questions

• Who is responsible for funds donated/received?
• What will GGIW do with my information?
• Who is allowed to use GGIW?
• Where can I find the official GGIW Terms of Service (TOS)?

GGIW is a place for you to raise money from your friends an family. To use GGIW, simply:

• sign up and create you profile.
• Enter your PayPal account info.
• Add items to your Gimme list, making sure to be specific about what you want and how you will spend the money.
• Describe yourself and upload a picture (it looks a lot better that way!).
• Most important! - tell your friends and family about your GGIW profile by sending them the link to your profile.

Many people use their facebook, myspace and other social networking sites to notify their circle about their GGIW profile. Others just use IM and email.

We have found that very few people will donate to a stranger, even if they have a real need. Friends and family are proven to be the best way to raise money for your personal needs. So, go ahead and sign up! It really does work!
 
 

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GGIW was started as an easy way for anyone with a PayPal account to easily collect donations for anything. We'd like to think that what we're really doing here is to help people get a little help from their friends and family.

We are not trying to be the next Web 2.0 social networking phenomenon, MySpace, Facebook, or flavor of the week. As such, we'd like to keep the site simple, quick, and easy to use. We will add in some new features in the future, but it's all centered around helping you and your friends and family to connect up and raise a little money to help out.

If you happen to come here looking for a management page with contacts, management bios and the like, please visit our contact page or send email to info@ggiw.com, and we'll be happy to answer your questions.
 
 

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GGIW uses quite a few icons and graphics that are freely available on the Internet.

The smilies like are part of a great package called FeltTip4 from a very good artist named Chromakode. The package can be found be found at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20097942/

Every image based on these smilies, including the site logo, are freely usable under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license 2.5. The text of which can be found here. These images are free to use and modify under those terms, so please have a look if you might want to use them.

In addition to the smilies, GGIW also makes use of a great icon set called "Silk" created by Mark James, which may be found http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ under the same Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.5 license as FeltTip4.

Please note, however, that the logo contains actual text, namely the site name, which may be under other copyright and trademark limitations. Please contact us if you have any questions. We are very happy to have the site graphics derived from Creative Commons Attribution licensed sources used in the spirit of the license.

We are very grateful to the artists that have generously donated their time and effort to putting together these great images. Please show your support by thanking them directly and promoting their work if you can.

In addition to the Creative Commons material on this site, we have made heavy use of GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and many other open source packages. The people contributing to these projects are the unsung heros of the Internet. From tiny little blogs to Google and Youtube, free open source software makes it all possible. Thanks!
 
 

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A Gimme is an item for which you'd like to raise money. Other users can browse to your profile and donate any amount of money to your gimmes.
 
 

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Gimme is just short for "give me", so it is pronounced accordingly - gimmy (Like Timmy). GGIW is an acronym for Gimme Gimme I Want!, so you should just say the letter G-G-I-W.
 
 

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GGIW passes along all monetary transactions to PayPal, so at no point does GGIW handle your money. The popularity and ease of use makes PayPal the best choice for transferring funds between users.

PayPal and the individual users are responsible for the funds that have been transferred.
 
 

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GGIW doesn't charge any fees for tracking your Gimme activity. GGIW's earns most of its revenue from the advertisements that appear on the website.

If GGIW ever were to close up shop, your money would be completely safe. Since GGIW uses PayPal for processing all transactions, your money is never at risk. It will remain in your PayPal account no matter what happens to GGIW.
 
 

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We'd love to hear about it! Please visit our contact page and drop us a line. Thanks in advance!
 
 

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GGIW doesn't charge any fees for it's services. PayPal does charge the recipient some fees to transfer money between certain classes of accounts. Please refer to PayPal's fee schedule located here

Today, when you donate money to a user, you are not charged any fees whatsoever by Paypal. Your money is transferred into the recipient's PayPal account.

The recipient user may be charged a fee to receive money depending on the type of PayPal account.
 
 

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When a user puts up a Gimme, that user is making a promise to his or her friends, family and the rest of the community. That promise is a simple one: to use the money donated to fund what is being asked for. There's no contract, oversight, or anything else forcing a user to spend the money properly.

As a user, you're on the honor system. We have found that, if you want to be a successful user here, it is best to be an honest member of the GGIW community.

If you decide to close a Gimme, or you don't raise the full amount, you are responsible for using the money that you've collected in an appropriate way. Some users will use the donation details information to refund payments to users by going directly to PayPal. Due to the difficulty in making this an automatic function, you will be responsbile for giving refunds, if appropriate, directly from your paypal login. Most of the time, however, money given is treated as a gift by both parties. We encourage donations given in this spirit.
 
 

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This problem is caused when the you have not entered a working PayPal account. You can correct this by clicking on 'Your PayPal Info' from your profile.
 
 

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You can have as many Gimmes as you'd like. However, we find that the fewer gimmes you have, the more likely you are to have people donate to you. The best number varies from user to user, but we recommend between 1-5 gimmes. Basically, the fewer the better.
 
 

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You can close a Gimme by clicking the 'edit' button for the Gimme and checking the Closed box at the bottom. You cannot currently completely delete a Gimme from your account, but setting it to Closed will cause it to become invisible to other users.
 
 

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We will be offering this feature soon. In the mean time, please drop us a line with the corrected amount on the contact page and we'll fix it for you.
 
 

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Once you've clicked through the payment process and confirmed the payment with PayPal, the money is transferred into that user's PayPal account. You should contact PayPal if you'd like to dispute the charge.

Unfortunately, GGIW isn't involved with processing these disputes. GGIW will, of course, cooperate with any legal action related to a disputed payment.
 
 

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GGIW takes user privacy seriously and will not disclose any user other user's contact information unless required by law. Many users post their email and IM addresses to their profiles while they are active on GGIW. If you would like a user to post this information, you may ask them by posting a comment to their profile.
 
 

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Please contact support immediately. We will review the material and take appropriate action.
 
 

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GGIW does not release your information to any 3rd parties. We may, from time to time, use this information to notify our users of new products and services directly from GGIW.
 
 

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You can cancel your account by clicking on the 'Account Info' link on your profile.

We always want to get better, so please let us know why you're leaving. You won't hurt our feelings, we promise!
 
 

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You are currently not be able to donate to your own Gimmes. We may offer this function in the future, so please let us know if it is something that you'd like to see.
 
 

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Absolutely! You can use HTML tags to improve your profile, include links, etc. Some supported tags include:

here is some <b>bold</b> text.
here is some <i>italics</i> text.
Here's a link to <a href="http://www.ggiw.com/">Gimme Gimme I Want!</a>

This would display:

More HTML tags are supported, so feel free to experiment.
 
 

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Images come in all shapes, sizes and formats. Unfortunately, not all images work properly as profile photos. We do try to support as many different formats as possible, however.

If you are having problems uploading photos, please check the following:

• Dimensions - Pictures that are too large will automatically be resized. If you are trying to upload a large picture, you may want to resize it on your computer using photo editing software. You might prefer this since your photo may not be resized exactly how you'd like it
  
  
• File Size - There is a limit to the file size for picture uploads. Please check to see if your file is very large (many megabytes). You can try shrinking the picture in photo editing software. That usually helps reduce file size a lot.
  
  
• Uncommon formats - We prefer that you use GIF, JPEG or PNG for photo uplaods. We try to support other formats, but size and technical limitations make this difficult. Try to convert your picture to one of these formats before you upload.

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