I have just about had it with Act Blue, no matter how much good they may do

[DFW]

For the 99th time (it seems) I have had to go back and edit a contribution I made because it came with a well-hidden, checked box for "recurring" contributions--this time for $100 a WEEK!!!!! I intended to make a one-time contribution to a House candidate I very much want to see elected, but I can't afford for her campaign to be deducting $100 a week from me from now until doomsday.

Act Blue does this very frequently, and if I'm not careful, I find hundreds of dollars deducted from my USA account that I never intended to authorize. Plus--they frequently "flag" my contributions, probably because they find it suspicious that someone who has been contributing through them for MANY YEARS places their orders on a US credit card from Europe (dadbburn ferriners! they should build a wall!), as I have been doing since they began. Apparently, it's just as suspicious that I do it now as it was five years ago.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Are you doing it on your desktop/laptop or cell phone?

Also, I recall that the campaign does the layout. Not ACTBlue.

[DFW]

7. Laptop/Desktop

I admittedly have no idea who is behind the layout, but I find it offensive and insulting no matter who is doing this. In this particular case, I have met the candidate. She lived in Sweden for the first 16 years of her life, and still speaks Swedish like a native. We didn't speak a word of English the whole time we were talking, and that was for about an hour. I sent her a letter c/o her campaign noting that I found this an objectionable practice. I wrote her in Swedish, so that while my email may not land in her in-box at first, her staffers will know to pass it on unless they happen to be fluent in Swedish as well.

[Egnever]

8. Sorry for your trouble

Google translate..

Language is no longer a barrier in written or even spoken word (if you can afford it )

These things are cool and might even come in handy for someone like you.

Handing ear pieces to strangers might be awkward....

[DFW]

9. I'm old school I guess

I do this the old-fashioned way. I actually learned to speak the languages I know. I see computer translations a lot, and they contain many inaccuracies, and have no ability to convey or understand slang or colloquialisms.

Keep in mind, I live in a country that borders on ten others, eight of which speak different languages. I can't see myself talking to people in front of me with some device like a scene out of Star Wars.

[Egnever]

10. I hear ya

was just struck by the implication they would pass on a letter because it was in swedish.

The ear thing would be weird to use but it is still pretty cool.

Sorry to step on your thread.

[DFW]

11. No sweat

I should probably have considered the possibility someone would try a computer translation, although they would need to know what language it was before trying to translate it, right? Maybe not even. There is always the possibility that they would get the hint that a letter to their candidate written in Swedish would in all likelihood have been sent by someone who knows her, but maybe that is asking too much of them.

[redstateblues]

2. Most donation sites use the same well hidden "make this monthly" button

Very annoying. I always find it first.

[RKP5637]

4. Same here, I always search it out first. n/t

[displacedtexan]

3. It's the first Item under FAQ (donor) in the help section.

They give you detailed instructions.

Hope this helps.

[Renew Deal]

5. That's annoying

Do they have to report the money they raise? I wonder if they have a larger than normal amount of refunds.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I've had no problems getting pass the question about making a recurring

donations.