Diana, You can contact FTDNA and place the order for the Big Y and then FTDNA will deduct the cost from the Project Fund. Wayne On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]>wrote: > A few weeks ago we got the ball rolling for a BigY test for one of our root > I1-M253*'s. We have a volunteer in the form of SHEFFIELD #123861 (1st row > in > the table): > http://dgmweb.net/DNA/matrices/HgI1/HgI1_matrix_M253.html#M253* > > The SHEFFIELD, himself, pledged $200 and so did someone else. I pledged > $50 and > someone else pledged $25, so we are up to $475 pledged. That leaves us > just > $220 to raise and we'll have enough! > > I've been questioned how to accomplish the donations and purchase. > Normally, it > would be easy: We would all make our donations to the Hg I1 project > General > Fund, then the SHEFFIELD would purchase the test using the Invoice payment > method, then the Hg I1 project admin would pay the Invoice from the project > General Fund. > > Unfortunately, as I have discovered, the BigY must be paid for by credit > card. > Payment by Invoice is greyed out when you go to purchase the test. > > It *may* be possible to get FTDNA to make an exception, taking the order > over > the phone and extracting the money from the project General Fund to pay > for it > manually on their end. Frankly, it's rather dense of them to make it so > difficult for their customers to pay for an expensive test! > > If anyone has an idea for getting the purchase accomplished, please > suggest it. > But first things first, we need the rest of the pledges! > > Diana > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks, Wayne. That's the way we used to have to do it, before they added the feature to our GAP allowing the admin to do it. I hope I'm safe in assuming the Hg I1 project admin is willing to accept the donations and arrange for the payment... So, the hurdle now is to get enough donations to proceed. Diana > From: Wayne R. Roberts > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:10 PM > To: y-dna-haplogroup-i > Subject: Re: [yDNAhgI] BigY test for our I1-M253* > > Diana, > > You can contact FTDNA and place the order for the Big Y and then FTDNA will > deduct the cost from the Project Fund. > > Wayne > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > A few weeks ago we got the ball rolling for a BigY test for one of our root > > I1-M253*'s. We have a volunteer in the form of SHEFFIELD #123861 (1st row > > in the table): > > http://dgmweb.net/DNA/matrices/HgI1/HgI1_matrix_M253.html#M253* > > > > The SHEFFIELD, himself, pledged $200 and so did someone else. I pledged > > $50 and someone else pledged $25, so we are up to $475 pledged. That > > leaves us just $220 to raise and we'll have enough! > > <snip>