I'm an exile, and was wondering how I could help the club remotely, and had been completely unawares of the patron and friends scheme, which I think are great. However, I'd much rather be able to do all this stuff online; I don't want to have to call someone up, maybe go dig out a chequebook from the darkest depths and post it up to Manchester etc. etc. Also, if there were an online option, it lends itself more to impulse buying. The same also goes for Yankee, to do it remotely is near impossible (from what I can tell, apologies if I'm wrong).
I respect it's an effort to get a load of infrastructure around this, but can we not just set it up on the ebay page? No reason we couldn't sell being an Alty Patron as an ebay item from what I can imagine. Things like Yankee may not lend itself so well, but a combination of email and paypal could do the trick, or a simple web form. Couldn't help but notice not a single of the contacts in the Help article offered email, which is what a lot of people prefer these days.
I respect it can take effort/time to man these things, but I'd be willing to volunteer to keep my eye on it, although as it's dealing with money I'm not sure that's the greatest idea to let a fan look after it
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Interested in peoples thoughts either way.