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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Donation Drive!

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Archibald&Crooks

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Morning all!

HAVE YOU DONATED THIS MONTH/YET/AT ALL?

As you all know, SC relies on your donations to be able to provide a unrivalled coverage of ITK, if it wasn't for you guys, the server would crash left right and centre and we simply couldn't afford to be as awesome and sexy as I am, I mean we are.

In one transfer window we ran a poll asking when people thought we'd sign Benteke (haha). The poll got an astonishing number of votes, over 600 of you took part.

Six bloody hundred. And that's just the yokes who bothered voting. Whichever way you slice it that's a lot. If everyone slung just three or four quid in the pot we'd be sorted for quite a while, so if you've never donated before, please consider doing so now.

Now, when it's donation drive time, which it is i'm afraid, where are you? *Goes all Delia* where aaaaare yoooooou? Let's be having youuuuuuu!

I reckon we've about 500 or more lurkmeisters, so come on guys, if you're one of them and you enjoy SC's coverage of the Transfer Window (and lets face it, you do because you're here right?), then please chip in. It doesn't have to be a massive amount. A monkey will do. Nah i'm kidding.......Why not a long 'un? Or even a pony? hehe, seriously though, a cockle would be great or even a lady. In fact whatever you can stretch to.

And if you happen to be a Spurs mad gazzillionaire, cough the fuck up. And if you're Daniel Levy, fucking hell shortstuff, put your hands in your pockets. And get the BSoDL to chip in too.

But A&C, where does the money go?

Outgoings: The server costs £390 per month. Forum software purchases/licenses/misc comes to around £500 a year. So currently, the cost of SC is about £5k a year.

Incomings: Advertising/Affiliates can sometimes cover the costs during the transfer window (January, July, August) but thats sometimes. The rest of the year that falls well short. Its difficult to give an exact figure because the numbers don't stay the same but i'd say £100 a month during the quiet months. Donations during the quiet months come to about £50pm if we're lucky.

Rob will know better than I do, but I reckon we're short by about £2500 a year.

If one month we raise more than is needed, it stays in the pot as it won't be long before it IS needed. The shortfall is made up out of Robs pocket. I'll repeat that.......It comes out of his pocket. Think about that for a minute. I reckon he pays an average of £50 a WEEK.

This is why i'm often cajoling, nudging, outright begging and open to bribery during the transfer window. It's when the most of you are about and our last big donation drive raised enough to cover costs for a couple of months or so.

Any excess raised stays in the pot until its needed when donations/income goes right down. Absolutely nothing goes on anything other than SC's running costs.

The donations raised in the summer are LONG gone. SC IS SKINT.

So, if you'd like to donate, there's a donation link on the front or home page of the site. We use Paypal but you don't need an account with them, you can use your card in the same way as making any other online purchase. Very securely.

If you want to send a postal order/cheque, please PM myself or Rob.

All donations are very much appreciated. Thanks.
 

Flashspur

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10 quid your way and more to come through the window plus fifty quid if we sign a back up for Kane. Cheers!
 

Hoopspur

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Decided to keep myself out of this for the most this window (with the odd exception).

Anyway, a small donation made this morning. Now where's that ITK whore when you need him?
 

gazzeh

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Personally think that people should just set up a contribution monthly, like I have. £3 a month is all I do, but if everyone did that (that can) the costs would probably be covered, and we get to keep our beloved SC. I bet most people spend more on coffee daily.
 

DaiT

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I made my pledges and you will get 50 at the end of the window if we sign a first team squad striker or if nothing happens at all
I suspect the latter.
 

dagraham

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Personally think that people should just set up a contribution monthly, like I have. £3 a month is all I do, but if everyone did that (that can) the costs would probably be covered, and we get to keep our beloved SC. I bet most people spend more on coffee daily.

Yeah that's exactly what I did a couple of years ago, rather than just putting in a fiver here and there during the transfer window.
 

topspur

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All donations are very much appreciated. Thanks.[/QUOTE]

...done... thanks for the good work (and high entertainment value!).
 

Onlyonedb

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As a long time lurker think it's about time I started to donate...

So after TDD I'll do:

£10.00 if we sign an honest to goodness striker

And I'll make it £10.00 a month til the end of the season if it ISN'T Berahino
 

Tucker

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Will donate something if I've got any left at the end of the month. Been using the site a lot more lately, so I can at least justify it at the moment. Always worth remembering the site is a lot more than just the transfer section.

Thanks for all the good work chaps.
 

CockOnBall

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I am not donating as ITK has been scarce this window and that is this - rather brilliant website's - fault. Sorry.
 
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