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Because indiegogo forces you to do it more ore or less.

Glad I didn't donate yet. If necessary I'll fly over and deliver it in person ;)

IndieGoGo actually support direct credit card donations, but a lot of people asked for PayPal as an option and we relented. So donating via. IGG actually works just fine - we have obviously disabled the PayPal option.

Wait... really? Because when the ubuntu phone campaign happened, I wanted to buy one, and didn't purely because I couldn't figure out a way to do it without PayPal.

Did I miss something on the page that would have let me pay without it? Oh well; too late now I guess.

I was in the same boat as you with respect to the Ubuntu Edge, as it turns out each campaign can choose which payment services to use. Ubuntu chose to only enable PayPal.

Oh dear, that's not a good situation then!

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