@Silvia_Project @aral
Sorry, but you defaulted me to a monthly donation, and you don't let me change that, so now I have to discontinue all my donations to chuffed Gaza accounts.

The default default option amounts to fraud.

Yes, I should have paid more attention, but I will now report you to my bank.

I am sorry for all my Gaza friends that you force me to abandon them.

@lipservant @Silvia_Project Hi, can you please tell us (Gaza Verified) more about what happened here? It sounds quite concerning.

CC @fabio

@aral @Silvia_Project I think I know what happened.

Both Chuffed and GoFundMe campaign managers have an option to select both the default amount and the default cadence (one-shot or monthly) of their campaign donation forms.

Most of the campaigns default to one-shot, but there are a few campaigns where the default is “monthly”. Then it’s up to the user to switch it before they hit “Pay”.

@lipservant it’s possible to cancel regular donations to Chuffed campigns - whether you already created an account on the platform or not. Instructions are here.

If you didn’t donate through a registered account, just make sure to use the same email address as the one you used for your donation when you create one, so the scheduled donation can be correctly linked to you.

In general I agree that campaign managers should be honest and make their campaigns’ schedule default to “one-shot” - there are so many campaigns in this initiative that if they were all to default to “monthly” a lot of donors may get into financial trouble.

And perhaps we as #GazaVerified should also provide guidelines to campaign managers around this aspect to avoid alienating donors.

But I don’t see it as something as extreme to report the campaign to the bank - a lot of campaigns play this trick on Chuffed and GFM, we agree that it’s not a transparent practice, but it’s not something illegal either.