PayPal Giving Fund to replace (and finance) Missionfish
Missionfish is to be renamed “PayPal Giving Fund” and the Missionfish brand will fade away in the near future. This might seem like a minor change to the charity which collects and distributes funds every time you buy, sell on behalf of a charity or donate at checkout.
It goes much deeper than a name change though, as of today, 100% of donations made through eBay for Charity (and any other donations that they collect) will be passed on to eBay users’ chosen charities. In the past Missionfish would have taken a small cut of donations towards running costs.
Moving forward PayPal will pick up the tab for all of the operating costs for MissionFish. eBay already match a seller’s donation waiving the same proportion of the seller fees as the seller chooses to donate. Missionfish have also always added Gift Aid where the seller indicates they’re a tax payer, this boosts donations by an additional 20%.
Apart from minor changes (such as reflecting the name change on Bank Statements), eBay for Charity intend to remove the minimum £1 per listing donation threshold, allowing sellers with lower priced items to use eBay for Charity to support their favourite causes. They will also introduce a threshold for pay-outs of £5 to keep admin cost low. However they will pay out any outstanding donations, however small, to charities at least once every three months limiting the amount of time they hold on to any donation.
This is great news for charities as it means for the first time all of the funds generated through eBay selling activity will go to the good causes.
puddleglums rest says
7:41 am on 16/01/2013
big write up about a certain seller with no listings and no shop. does not inspire confidence or fair play
http://www.missionfish.org.uk/uk_sellers-learn-more.html
Jimbo says
8:39 am on January 16th, 2013
You scratch my back.
Chris Dawson says
8:55 am on January 16th, 2013
Sheesh, that’s donkey’s years old from the days when you had to drive traffic to your SIF listings in your eBay shop! Surprised they’ve not replaced with any more recent ones.
Jimbo says
9:29 am on January 16th, 2013
It’s a shame that they don’t date articles (for the sake of accuracy).
Chris Dawson says
10:06 am on January 16th, 2013
Bad as the old powerseller of the month used to be for being updated
puddleglums rest says
11:05 am on 16/01/2013
if they cant manage the promos why should we have confidence the money is managed any better?
puddleglums rest says
11:20 am on 16/01/2013
its quite sad really,
a program raising money for charity highlighting a seller who benifits from donating to charity, so much so they no longer list and have closed their shop ?
board_surfer says
12:06 pm on 16/01/2013
I never liked missionfish, paying someone to give your money to charity always rankled.
Dan Wilson says
12:27 pm on January 16th, 2013
Totally agree. Remember arguing as such internally when eBay for Charity was launched. Thought eBay Inc could cover the costs and make the whole process 100% simpler in the process!
dw