# I Need Help Paying for my Membership
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329
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**Created:** [May 22, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329 "2010-05-22T01:57:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/1 "2010-05-22T01:57:37Z")
Folks-
I cannot use PayPaul. Please send me a PM about some other way to pay for my membership. Perhaps a check by mail?
P in Q
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/2 "2010-05-22T02:10:39Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#):
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> Folks-
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> I cannot use PayPaul. Please send me a PM about some other way to pay for my membership. Perhaps a check by mail?
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> P in Q
Get a visa or MC gift card, works the same way as a credit card only you either pre load it with cash or buy a standard denomination.
Give the dope the number and they process it the same way they do cedit cards.
Declan
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/3 "2010-05-22T03:06:58Z")
I paid for you, yo.
At least, I think I did. I’ve never bought a gift subscription before so who knows what I just did 🙂
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/4 "2010-05-22T21:31:27Z")
Looks good, ZipperJJ.
Looks GREAT, in fact.
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/5 "2010-05-22T21:46:01Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> I paid for you, yo.
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> At least, I think I did. I’ve never bought a gift subscription before so who knows what I just did 🙂
Hence the disposable income tag?
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/6 "2010-05-23T03:34:36Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#):
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> Hence the disposable income tag?
All of us Charter Members gotta stick together. I have disposable income solely because I only have to pay $7.48/year to renew. If it cost more…byebye disposable income!
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### Author:  [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/7 "2010-05-23T10:15:58Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> Looks good, ZipperJJ.
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> Looks GREAT, in fact.
Uh Oh… Looks like you overpaid by about a thousand…
Tuba’s having a party!
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-help-paying-for-my-membership/540329/8 "2010-05-23T15:38:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income $7.50, annual expenditure $7.48, result happiness. Annual income $7.50, annual expenditure $14.95, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and — and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!”
😃