{"id":61,"date":"2006-11-22T15:24:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/?p=24"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:32:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T18:32:51","slug":"technical-note-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2006\/11\/22\/technical-note-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Note &#038; Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some donors may have noticed that PayPal added a shipping charge.<\/p>\n<p>This is because I&#8217;d added shipping charges on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/booksforsale.html\">&#8220;Books for Sale&#8221; page<\/a> links, and PayPal has this bizarre policy of &#8220;If you add shipping one place, you add it everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t realized they did that, and frankly, I think it&#8217;s stupid to add shipping to a <em>donation<\/em> &#8212; I mean, they have a &#8220;donation&#8221; category and that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s labeled when the money arrives &#8212; but that&#8217;s what they do.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve removed the shipping charges from the account, and I apologize to everyone who got troubled by this glitch.  If you order less than $25 of books from my &#8220;Books for Sale&#8221; page, though, you&#8217;ll have to add the shipping yourself &#8212; $3.00 for one paperback book, $5.00 for two or more.<\/p>\n<p>Donations do not have a shipping charge.  Neither do hardcovers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who wound up paying more than you intended, drop me a note, and we&#8217;ll find a way to make it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some donors may have noticed that PayPal added a shipping charge. This is because I&#8217;d added shipping charges on my &#8220;Books for Sale&#8221; page links, and PayPal has this bizarre policy of &#8220;If you add shipping one place, you add it everywhere.&#8221; I hadn&#8217;t realized they did that, and frankly, I think it&#8217;s stupid to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/2006\/11\/22\/technical-note-apology\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethshar.com\/serials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}