My first answer to the credit card fee problem would be "Then why do they allow it as an option on the site selection ballots?" And now that I think about it, I used my card when I voted in person last year and the charge came from Denvention.
I suppose it would be a bigger problem if we went online where that's about the only way of paying for things and thus more fees would be incurred, but it strikes me that "who pays the credit card fees" is already somewhat of a moot point.
As for the bit about it being unfair to force Worldcons to have such things as Paypal and credit card machines, it strikes me that, despite being the folks who embrace a genre that's highly future-oriented, we're an awful bunch of Luddites at times.
(Sorry, was staring at the Worldcon site selection ballot (well, and reformatting the NASFIC one to fit on two pages -- why is there not a PDF of the NASFIC ballot?) and noticed the credit card option. I'm not trying to be annoying; I'm just grumbling a bit.)
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Date: 2009-07-06 09:21 pm (UTC)I suppose it would be a bigger problem if we went online where that's about the only way of paying for things and thus more fees would be incurred, but it strikes me that "who pays the credit card fees" is already somewhat of a moot point.
As for the bit about it being unfair to force Worldcons to have such things as Paypal and credit card machines, it strikes me that, despite being the folks who embrace a genre that's highly future-oriented, we're an awful bunch of Luddites at times.
(Sorry, was staring at the Worldcon site selection ballot (well, and reformatting the NASFIC one to fit on two pages -- why is there not a PDF of the NASFIC ballot?) and noticed the credit card option. I'm not trying to be annoying; I'm just grumbling a bit.)
-kat