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Play Game THE GAME - BuckeyePlanet Pledge-o-Rama

Deety

Head Coach
It's here - that one opportunity each year to build up some extra good karma for The Game and support BP at the same time!

You know what you want to see on the field, from the coin toss to the last play. What is going to make you happy? Put a dollar figure on them and pledge it, and when good things happen on the field, BP benefits, too! The bigger your donation, the happier you will be. :pimp:

Pledge based on anything you like, in any combination and any amount - points, yards or differentials, forced turnovers, JT's stats, and most importantly, the chance to say "Scoreboard" to scUM fans for one more year. Throw down some bonus fun for going for 2, blocked kicks, or a shut-out. Count Bosa's shrugs. Bet dollars or pennies, everyone is welcome. It's up to you!

After the game, make good on your pledge and collect your virtual goodies. Here's to the biggest, happiest fundraising drive yet!

Donation details, mostly from Clarity's spring drive post:

BuckeyePlanet is a community driven website. Over the years it has grown substantially, and with that growth so did the costs associated with maintaining it. BP Drives have funded new servers not once, but twice. They made possible the complete rebuild of our site with all the new features (including responsive design for mobile devices) on our 10th anniversary. They allow us to hire help when we need it, and to pay our colocation fees so that we stay on an amazing connection with HE.net. A donation to BP makes BP better, and every cent is deeply appreciated. Our 2014 goal is what we raised in 2013, minus a dollar.

What are you donating towards this year? Well beyond the (rather boring, but utterly brilliant) colocation services and near-endless pool of bandwidth from our friends at HE.net and the renewal software licenses, this year we intend to fix the search engine, proactively buy backup drives in the event of failure, introduce new features to the site (including a new way to play with your site currency), have some custom coding done, and have a little left over for unforeseeable events.

A quick semantic detour...

We use the term "donation" for lack of a better word, but last year a seasoned vet said this isn't a charity (it's certainly not), it's a service. There's truth to that. BP has always relied on community participation, and it has always eschewed as much commercialism as humanly possible (ads were, sadly, inevitable). So these drives... It's about the service and value this site provides to you. You define what this place is worth to you, and you choose your own 'price'. If things are tight, then don't feel badly about not kicking in. If this place isn't as important as another site to you, then give something to them if you're not having to pay there either. There's no guilt or shame to that at all, on the contrary I applaud that you're encouraging another community based effort. This is all about your decisions, your freedom to contribute where you please, and the value YOU place on this service, not a value we place for you. Whether you see it as a donation, a gift, or payment for services rendered, YOU are helping us become stronger, faster, better, and are adding to the value you (hopefully) get out of our collective efforts here. No one should feel compelled, this is all strictly voluntary. We don't hold back features for those who donate, we just offer banners, and an enormous amount of appreciation for those who believe in this site enough to give in that way.

IF YOU DONATE ANONYMOUSLY AND WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR SPORTSBOOK CASH, PLEASE SEND A PRIVATE CONVERSATION TO LONGWOODBUCK WITH YOUR DONATION AMOUNT AND TIME SO SHE MAY ADD THE GAME CURRENCY TO YOUR ACCOUNT!

Don't want to use PayPal? You can snail mail donations (payable to Joanna Bryant) to:

Joanna Bryant
669 Sumter Street
Galloway, Ohio 43119


Don't want to use PayPal or snail mail? We have an Amazon Payments account we're willing to use, but it seems to require that we send a request to you. Just PM Longwoodbuck and indicate this is the direction you'd like to go, your email address, and how much you intend to give. This is a new option for 2014, so bear with us as we sort it all out.

BITCOIN? It's been brought up before. We're also open to Bitcoin donations. If you're interested in pursuing this instead of any of the options above, please contact Longwoodbuck and we'll look into making it happen.

DOGECOIN? No, we have to draw the line somewhere -- even though much awesome, very doge, wow. Maybe next year.

Doesn't matter the method, all forms of donation will be treated equally in terms of banners, site currency exchange, and listing here on this page.

Goodies!

vCash vCash vCash!

Join the High Rollers Club of Virtual Currency! For your vGambling pleasure, we will present all our generous donors with piles and piles of vDough at an exchange rate of 1:100!

For example:

$5 donation = ¤500
$10 donation = ¤1,000
$100 donation = ¤10,000

... and so forth, without limit. When Joanna (aka Longwoodbuck) receives notice of your donation, she will update your vcash amount.

Other Ways to Support BuckeyePlanet
Use the Amazon store!
This supports BuckeyePlanet at no charge to you. Start your search in the Amazon module on BP's front page, click any of the left-side Amazon ads within threads, or click the BP Store link on the menu for our affiliate store. Even easier - simply bookmark this Amazon link. (This won't work by clicking and then bookmarking the result, because the referrer disappears. Make your bookmark; right-click the link and copy the link location; right-click your bookmark and choose Properties; paste the long link you copied over the old link.)

Thank You and GO BUCKS!
 
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And starting us off... :)


LordJeffBuck
Illuminatus Emeritus
Staff Member

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Here's my holiday pledge, based on the result of The Game:

$100.00 for an Ohio State victory, plus

$5.00 x point advantage (if Ohio State wins), plus

$1.00 x yardage advantage (if in favor of Ohio State).

If Ohio State loses, I will still contribute something.

Follow us on Twitter and retweet to your friends...
@buckeyeplanet
 
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When's the money due? I want to participate but I won't be able to pay until the first week in jan.
That's fine, it'll still count for this event. I suppose it would be best just for planning purposes if anyone waiting more than 2 weeks or so just let me or Longwoodbuck know the time frame.

Donations are always welcomed any time. No, really. We're open-minded like that. :p
 
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