2012 ANNUAL DONATIONS APPEAL - IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

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2012 ANNUAL DONATIONS APPEAL - IMPORTANT PLEASE READ

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Well before I make the usual annual appeal let me first of all belated thank all of you who generously donated to our Annual Legends League Donation Appeal last year, where we just about raised enough money to meet our annual commitments and maintain a small but real cushion of funds for any unforeseen circumstances to ensure we keep our league's survival on solid ground. We had 21 of you make the effort to kindly donate to our cause and between them we raised an excellent £387.13, which was not far short of our annual expenditure for our Race Server and our Web site Hosting service and domain registration. Many thanks to you guys, you know who you are. Without you our sim racing league could not exist, so we are extremely grateful to you and for your continued loyal support to Legends League.

So yes now it is once again that time of year when I become so very appealing :love: and make our annual appeal for voluntary donations from our members towards the cost of running this amazing and very special Legends League. It is right now that we ask you to kindly dip ever so slightly into your deep pockets before you spend it all over Christmas, and find at least some loose change. All in return for the great fun and excitement we hope we have given you all year. By all means please read on as that does at least make me feel my writing efforts were worthwhile :oldgit: , but for a quick easy method to donate then just click HERE and follow the simple instructions.

We must though strongly emphasise that Legends League is a free sim racing league and will remain so well into the foreseeable future, so as mentioned above this is a completely voluntary contribution request that we make each and every year. These donations enable us hopefully to help fund the excellent Team7 servers, which we use as the Legends rFactor Race Servers, and indeed also towards our own website and domain running costs. Team7 provide our race servers, club and practice servers and do so completely free of any formal charge, for which we are extremely grateful to them and their support of our league. However, the cost of running these servers is considerable of course, and thus we ask for your contributions so we can in all fairness donate several hundred Euros to them each year to go towards their formidable expenses.

So PLEASE NOTE, you can if you so wish continue to race totally free of any charges in our uniquely very special Legends League. Sure we fully understand and appreciate that some of you are rich fat caps, some poor old git pensioners, a few poverty ridden students, and of course the majority who are just penniless drop outs and p*ss artists :roll: :lol: But even a few odd Euros/Pounds/Dollars will help.

Donations can be of any amount you wish in Sterling, Euros or US Dollars (Sterling or Euros much preferred as our outgoings are just in both these currencies) but for all those who make a contribution of at least £10 or €12 or US$16 you will also receive your very own free and prestigious <your name>@legends-league.com POP3 and password protected e-mail account, that is if you have not already got one. If you do make a donation then please also ensure that you send an e-mail to admin@legends-league.com with the subject "LEGENDS DONATION" giving details of your contribution. You should also, where appropriate, state your preferred Legends e-mail account user name e.g. <fred>@legends-league.com. We will NOT publicly disclose the names of those who do make donations, this will be strictly known only to core HQ staff as we do NOT want to put any pressure whatsoever on our members to make contributions to this fund. So now for the easy method to donate :-

If you are logged in as a registered member, on the top right of the website home page you will see a "Donate" link [or just click HERE]. If you open that link you will find a page with details of the donation scheme and how to make your payment. Underneath the text you will see the "Donate" button which once pressed will lead you to the PayPal page where you can either pay using your PayPal account OR by Credit Card (most types accepted). This Donation link with the easy to use "Donate" button will remain a permanent feature on our website so you can donate at any time of year. However we have to meet our annual disbursements early in the new year, so this month we are being particularly appealing. All donations will be privately acknowledged by PM or e-mail and where appropriate your legends-league.com e-mail account will be opened for you, so please ensure you receive an acknowledgement within a few days of making payment.

Thank you for your time in reading this and we hope nobody is offended by our asking .. okay then ... begging ... for funding. And of course, finally a big thank you in advance for any donations that you may generously make to this annual Legends League appeal. Also once again remember that you can donate using the "Donate" link at any time of year, so when you are feeling flush with spare cash then you know where you can get rid of some of it :)
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Thx Ray! :thumbsup:

Lets hope we get enough to pay the bills and continue this stuff for another year :)
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IMPORTANT UPDATE

Some of you have reported a problem in using the PayPal Donate Button on our Donations page and indeed we had hit a technical problem. However please note that this has now been resolved and you can now once again easily make your donations by simply hitting the Donate Button and completing the simple required information. It really is very easy and straightforward so don't be shy and dig deep to find at least some loose change to donate to our very special Legends League.

Without your support we could not exist and thus the reason we make our annual appeal to your generosity. We can then make 2013 an even better Legends League sim racing year. :) :thumbsup:
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If you are using paypal for dontations or otherwise, its likely you will recieve an email from service@paypal.com after a while asking you to fill out a form. its fake, dont do it.
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oops.... I already sent $35,000.00 to West Timor to help a prince get his $4.2 million out of a French bank. When he does I'll, I'll get my cut of the millions!
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erm...whats you adress mate, i get the sense another email is comming your way :clown:
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