PreToMe (PTM): News

Houston, We Have A (2nd) Problem


As most of you read on the frontpage in the last few days, we've been dealing with a number of issues regarding donations.

First off:
Over the last couple of months we've been seeing a decline in the amount of donations we've been receiving. Although we understand that not everybody can or wants to donate, these donations are crucial to keep our site running as it is.
Without those donations we cannot keep the level of service we've been offering you.
Some of the services that are in danger of disappearing if we don't get enough donations are:

- Scene feed: We get a constant influx of fresh torrents from the warez scene. Without this, all uploads will have to come from our users, which means we would not be able to immediately offer you the latest torrents.
- Upload seedbox: These fresh torrents are being uploaded by a powerful seedbox with a high speed connection. If we lose this box, the scene feed is useless and the site will not upload any torrents.
- Retention seedbox: A second box is used to keep torrents alive for a longer time. Due to harddisk restrictions our main upload box cannot hold torrents for a long time. This second box does this instead.

There are other services that would be lost if we cannot pay for them anymore, but you get the point. We need those donations to make sure we keep these services running.
To make sure there are no service interruptions, we will need to fill the donation meter to 100% as soon as possible.


Second:
After our message on the frontpage, we received a large number of donations already. Unfortunately, PayPal decided to permanently limit the account after they somehow found out that the shirt-shop was connected to PreToMe. We refunded as many donations as possible, and we hope those that got refunded will re-donate with the new payment system.
Because PayPal is no longer an option, we decided to go with a creditcard processing system called Stripe.com. With this system, users can directly pay to the shirt-shop with their creditcard. Creditcard details are not saved on our servers, only the last 4 digits of your creditcard number.
With this new system, it is however required that you enter your actual billing address. Without a valid billing address, the payment will be declined. If you are not comfortable giving your real address, there is ofcourse always the option to use bitcoin to make donations.
So, in short, the shirt-shop is back up and running, and we hope that those that got refunded will donate again using the new system.

Please, help us keep our level of service up to par.

Thank you,

//PTM Staff