Weʼre raising £35,000 to Continue Vital ME Research, Keith Geraghty, 2021

We have seen a speeding up of donations at the end of a crowdfund before but I get the impression that suddenly yesterday morning this one speeded up a lot. I wonder if for some reason word got spread wider through social media accounts and a whole new lot of people were reached? If so it may be a lesson for getting the word out early on next time.

 

It would be hard to know for certain but Dave Tuller sharing Keith's campaign must have helped.

 

Do you refresh the browser (F5 usually does it), as it may simply not be updating locally on your computer for some reason without doing that.

 

For sure in my case.

I think there may also be a payday effect. A lot of people's money goes into the bank the last working day of the month, and they may be waiting for that.

 

Yes, I kept refreshing the page, hoping I was going to get my coffee on time! The total did not make sense in terms of what was coming up on the credits but then I discovered it did if one noticed that donations were popping up several places back in the list - presumably the list was in order of the giving but the total and each credit had to wait until some more processing occurred to be visible.

 

I thnk some of us were a bit concerned that you might get dehydrated if you never got your elevenses..!

 

I followed closely at that time, I made a good donation to put it up to 22500, but it wasnt displayed until ten minutes later, and then, when my donation finally got in the list and summary, it got up to 22550, there was 5 donation in between.
But then 5 minutes later, someone donated 2000 pounds, putting it up from 90% to 98%. I saw that since I followed closely, it was anonymous and hidden value. That’s a huge donation, and that saved the 100% result I suspect.

 

In my experience, there is always a speed-up the last couple of days. But also, on Thursday evening my time, I sent out an update to my donors (750+ this time) that I had reached my goal and if anyone wanted to give this month, they should give to Keith's, and I included the link. I assume that probably led to a few donations.