[top]Why donate?
Drugs Forum relies on donations to operate. We do not run banners or advertisements. Drugs Forum has bandwidth costs, hosting costs, url costs, software costs and hardware costs. The popularity of the sites have become so enormous, that costs have sky rocketed and funding is much needed.
Hardware expansion and a new server are vital to grow and to allow the ever increasing number of visitors, members and new functionality. There are many expansions of drugs-forum planned, which can take place after we get a new server. The total site will get much faster. More info can be found here: Running Expenses & donation discussion
Donating members get a large package of extra functions, which can be found at the bottom of this page plus access to restricted areas. This will make browsing and using this site a very different experience.
There are 4 levels of donating:
- Benefactors have contributed €1.000 or more.
- Sponsors have contributed €500 or more.
- Supporters have contributed €100 or more.
- Donating members have contributed €5 a month or €50 a year.
If you donate, then as a thanks for your support, you will receive
donating member functions for a certain amount of time:
€ 10.00 - 2 months (minimum donation)
€ 20.00 - 4 months
€ 30.00 - 6 months
€ 40.00 - 8 months
€ 50.00 - 1 year
*excluding transfer fees that paypal calculates (4.5%)
Please use the
currency converter to see what this is in your local currency.
See our sponsors page for our Supporters, Sponsors and Benefactors.
[top]How to donate?
Currently it is possible to donate:
- Cash anonymously by mail.
- Cash by registered mail.
- Credit Card. See Western Union.
- By western union. (by credit card or cash)
- Paypal
[top]Donating by sending cash by mail:
Euro's are welcome. Please exchange currency into Euro's before sending. Do not send cheques or coupons, because many can not be cashed in Holland.
As said you can donate anonymous by sending money through normal mail or use registered to be able to trace your donation. If you want to donate by registered mail, then please PM me for the shipping address.
Note that you can not send cash to the address drugs-forum.com is registered to. That address is not valid. If you want to send cash, this is the right address:
Substance Information Network
Postbus 31271
6503 CG Nijmegen
The Netherlands
When sending cash, only send paper, no coins. Please make sure the envelope does not show there is money inside. There are many ways to do this secure. Some suggestions:
Put the money in a envelope, which is placed in a second envelope.
Put the money between cardboard.
Put the money in a cd casing. (between the back and the cd holder)
[top]Donating through Western Union:
See: www.westernunion.com
There are several ways to use western union to donate. You can either:- Pay online (using your credit or debit card)
- Pay cash at a Western Union agent location
- Pay through the phone (using your credit or debit card)
and have the donation send to a certain Western Union agent location in the Netherlands. For exact details on who to send it to, please contact Alfa for information.
When you send the donation you will get a ten digit number from Western Union, which you need to send to Alfa along with the name used for the money transfer.
It's very easy to do.
[top]Donating through Paypal:
Drugs-Forum does not have a Paypal account. However, one of our members (
Honourableone) is kind enough to relay paypal donations to Drugs-Forum. Please contact him for the Paypal details. It is possibly to automatically make regular donations. To message Honourableone,
click here.
[top]Functions for donating members
- Donating members function: see members in thread 'real time' and see them replying. With this live function, the forum experience changes quite a bit.
- Chat client for Donating members. Chat from your desktop with this IM software.
- Animated avatar feature for donating members. Use bigger and animated clips as your avatar.
- Drugs-Wiki editing for donating members
- Donating members can post blogs.
- Personal Notepad for donating members
- See reputation comments on profiles
- Donating member Title:
You will be acknowledged as a funding member and receive the Donating member title.
- We will increase your Private Message storage limit to a smashing amount of 500 messages.
- You will be able to use message tracking and see whether your friend has read your message already and when.
- You will also be able to avoid to be tracked by denying all Private Message receipt requests.
- Invisible Mode:
Disappear completely from the eyes of other members. You will see them but they won't see you. Nobody will know that you entered the forum or what you are doing. Note that staff members can distinguish invisible and offline mode.
- Custom User title:
You will be able to change your user title to describe your pseudonym, character, mood, or orientation better. You can put there whatever you like as long as it's rule compliant. The user title is the title appears between username and membership level.
- (animated) images in your signature.
- Expanded posting rights:
Newbie or not, you can edit your posts, give reputation ratings. Post polls like gold members can.
- Fast review for Gold Membership and sources forums access:
Although donating does not affect the decision on wether you can become gold member or not, it will help get your member status reviewed earlier. It usually takes quite a while to get reviewed, but donating members are at the top of the list. The higher the donation, the higher your rank will be.
- Expanded download/ upload rights. Your up/download limits are much larger than other members.
- Supporters, Sponsors and Benefactors are listed on our sponsors page. If you want to remain anonymous, then let me know.
- Forum wide various expanded functions and allowances.
- Newbies have all privileges of Silver membership.
- Donating increases your Contribution Spectrum level.
- More donating member functions are being worked on.
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