Maybe I’m being uncharitable in my judgments, but, seeing as this is the month I do charitable giving, I’ve been messing about with websites, trying to give charities my money.
And now I’ve run across a second website which makes it difficult to give the amount of money I want to give. The first, which I suspect was the ACLU, simply gave me a list of radio buttons with amounts, with no opportunity to give a custom amount. Baffled, I believe I just gave them nothing.
Now I’ve encountered the second site, which is aspca.org. It had a custom amount field, which I tried to use, but was rejected with the message that I had to select the “Other” radio button in order to use the custom field. Ummmm…. where is this “other” button to which you refer, sirs?
I suspect it’s just a sly way to manipulate you into giving more money.
So I tried again, and now it says it’s trying to process my donation of the radio button that was selected (I selected one for less money than I was intending), despite using the custom field. Desperate, isn’t it? But I think I buggered it by forgetting to put in my CVV and proper date on the credit card. Now it’s apparently in a sit ‘n spin forever loop. Deserves it.
Or am I just being crabby?
