The One Fund Memorial Ribbon is now available!

[seebs]

What I want to know is; if the 100 tp purchase price doesn't actually go to the One Fund charity, then what makes it a "One Fund Memorial Ribbon"?

The colors and stated symbolism, I guess?

Ribbon is free, that's why they have a coupon code.

[autobandit]

I'm very wary of how Turbine is handling this situation. There is a very high level of scrutiny when corporations represent a cause/non-profit and if found guilty of wrongdoing, they risk a LOT of fines. I work in development at a university and if we collect ANY money (5 cent, $1, or $100,000) the customer has the RIGHT to receive a receipt for tax purposes.

The reason why I say this: someone who spends TP on this virtual ribbon (used to "raise awareness") can misconstrue it as a donation. That's problem #1. If they expected or demanded a receipt they would either receive one or not receive one. This then gives the appearance that TP has monetary value (and is potentially being used as currency) or that they are misrepresenting their philanthropic efforts (respectively). That's problem #2. Problem #3 is then the IRS can investigate Turbine for fraud (either with The One Fund or with TP or both).

Words of caution...

[~Absolution1]

Count me as not impressed.

[phillymiket]

You haters( read that as people who assume Turbine is doing this to profit ), need to read the main post notifying us about the One Fund, then hang your heads in shame for being blatantly ignorant. Disgusting. Did your reading skills fail to find the coupon code BOSTON somewhere in that post? Did you see something shiny (in game ribbon) in the store for 100TP and immediately buy it so you could come back to the forums and complain that Turbine stole your money? Stupid.

Ok.
Unless I'm mistaken this is how this went down from point of view.
When the item came out it did NOT have the code in the description.
That was changed later.
Here is a quote from Cordo that indicates that

In regards to the Store item description: Yes, it would have been nice to put the coupon code in there. LOTRO was able to get it in in time, but due to various technicalities, DDO didn't get it in in time for Monday's maintenance. So, we opted to instead put the description in the article and promote it through our public channels.

I logged in and opened the store for other reasons.
I saw the ribbon and it really appeared to me to be a donation to The One Fund.
I came on to the forums and to my surprise read the money went to Turbine profits.
I asked a simple question "Where did my 100 TP go?"
My question was not answered but instead some lawyery double speak was offered.
The description has since been changed.
Had a straightforward response been offered I would probably have shut right up.

Let's not misrepresent each other.

I'm not going to hide my head in shame because I'm not against The One Fund or even DDOs involvement but only the way they set this up.

The fact that they changed the description to add the code indicates they realize it was confusing so I don't feel ignorant or feel I need to revisit my reading skills.

I'm not a hater just someone who thought they were contributing to a great fund, found out I had thrown my money in a hole, didn't get a satisfying acknowledgement of that fact, and was asking for a change to the system.

That's all.

I'm over this and done with it but had to point out to the back half of this thread to go back and read the front half of this thread and read how this has developed.

Peace all.

[Silverleafeon]

I like the ribbons they are nice since they last forever and I can swap them around as I please.
They look pretty on my toon.

Realizing that they were more permanent than the one shot "I won", I got 5 more with my 10 per account coupon.

Today after pondering the situation a bit more, and glancing at this thread, I decided to contribute,
something I definitely would not have done otherwise.

Those of you concerned about where YOUR TP went, rest assured that a situation of this nature has an obvious solution,
which I acted upon while clicking the "Other" checkmark in a way that was more than enough for multiple mistakes...

And now when Fawn clicks on her ribbon, she remembers the angel of mercy passed on by her.

[seebs]

I asked a simple question "Where did my 100 TP go?"
My question was not answered but instead some lawyery double speak was offered.

That's because it is absolutely, totally, logically impossible for your question to have an answer.

It's not that they aren't willing to tell you. It's that the question is meaningless. TP aren't money. They don't have a monetary value. They don't even have a remotely consistent monetary cost. There is no way to translate from TP to dollars. So TP don't go anywhere. And they can't. And the question is meaningless and can't be answered. It has no answer.

There is no way for anyone to know how much money is associated with any TP spent on these ribbons. We can't meaningfully answer that question. So there's no way for them to do anything with "the money from this", because we don't know which money that was, or even how much of it there was.

[HotMaarl]

Instead of lawyering this topic seven ways from sunday, can't you just support the cause as intended...or leave it alone? It's really not that complicated, so long as this doesn't lead to virtual Coke Machines in the Harbor.

2 cents

[LrdSlvrhnd]

I like the ribbons. A glowy floaty thing over my shoulder is fun. They need more of these!

I also initially thought that purchasing the ribbons would've been a straight donation to the One Fund; however, the description (at least currently) clearly states it's to raise awareness of it, and i was fortunate enough to get on AFTER seeing the code. So color me "not unhappy".

Although Turbine could (and should) increase the number of uses of the code - say, to "unlimited."

[~Lorien_]

QFT.

You haters( read that as people who assume Turbine is doing this to profit ), need to read the main post notifying us about the One Fund, then hang your heads in shame for being blatantly ignorant. Disgusting. Did your reading skills fail to find the coupon code BOSTON somewhere in that post? Did you see something shiny (in game ribbon) in the store for 100TP and immediately buy it so you could come back to the forums and complain that Turbine stole your money? Stupid.

It's funny how now that neg rep is gone we can see people's neg rep history lol

[Chai]

It's funny how now that neg rep is gone we can see people's neg rep history lol

Yeap, save for those whose posting privy was revoked ages ago who took advantage of this whole forum fiasco to make new accounts for the purpose of reviving some old habbits.

[~bluecheeseweed]

seems like people will complain about anything=( and i thought all the trolls were on facebook.lol