# Gift subscriptions seem to be working.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471>\
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**Created:** [May 5, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471 "2009-05-05T22:52:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/1 "2009-05-05T22:52:57Z")

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Thanks to Kevin Day, the Web genius behind [your.org](http://your.org), which does the weekly TSD mailing, we appear to have gotten gift subscriptions working again - go to User CP, click on Paid Subscriptions - you’ll see you now have the ability to enter someone else’s name and pay on their behalf. A quick test suggests this is working OK. However, this is a code hack, so please post something here ASAP if you get strange results. For that matter, for the next little while anyway, please post something here if it works. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/2 "2009-09-03T15:19:28Z")

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Are you saying that Charter Members may now sponsor regular members?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/3 "2009-09-03T16:18:25Z")

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This is an old thread, Lib – the problem you encountered has not, to the best of my knowledge, been fixed. But please try it and see.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/4 "2009-09-04T11:15:27Z")

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Okay. Please stand by…

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/5 "2009-09-04T11:18:15Z")

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Okay, no, you were right. I tried it for “begbert2”, who is on my friends listing. No go.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/6 "2009-09-04T21:31:33Z")

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I’m sorry. I’ll remind Ed of this again.

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gift-subscriptions-seem-to-be-working/495471/7 "2009-09-05T01:31:47Z")

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Thank you, Tuba.