# Just paid for membership then realized I didn't say who it was from!

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**Created:** [April 11, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-paid-for-membership-then-realized-i-didnt-say-who-it-was-from/239455 "2004-04-11T15:00:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-paid-for-membership-then-realized-i-didnt-say-who-it-was-from/239455/1 "2004-04-11T15:00:04Z")

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I just paid for an annual membership then it struck me that my paypal email address is different from my SDMB listed one. The paypal one has my **pezpunk** in it so I am assuming the powers that be will figure it out. Is this a safe assumption or has my $4.95 just been sacrificed to the SDMB gods?

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**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-paid-for-membership-then-realized-i-didnt-say-who-it-was-from/239455/2 "2004-04-12T04:48:29Z")

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Check your PayPal e-mail receipt for the item number you’ve purchased. It should be “1\_USERNUMBER”, without the quotes, where USERNUMBER is your user number (1220, in your case – you can find it by clicking on your name next to your post, and viewing your profile. Your user number is in the address bar up top, at the end). If this is so, then your transaction should have gone through. I know this because I have paid for more than one person in exactly this fashion, and obviously my PayPal address varies from each of theirs.

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**Author:** ![Limbo\_Donni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Limbo\_Donni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limbo_Donni)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-paid-for-membership-then-realized-i-didnt-say-who-it-was-from/239455/3 "2004-04-14T19:47:40Z")

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Short answer: It didn’t make you a Charter Member.  
You still say Guest, even after posting.