Those of you who were around in 2013 may remember LEL having a boatload of grief with Paypal. Having taken all your entries for LEL2013, Paypal promptly froze our account and made us jump through endless hoops to get money out of them. It nearly scuppered the event.
Fidgetbuzz has been negotiating with them for the best part of a year to try and make the relationship a bit smoother. They even called us out of the blue last week to discuss further, promising to send us more forms to complete. The forms never arrived, but they are withholding 70% of all funds we receive until after the event.
Frankly we've had enough of this, so we're seriously restricting Paypal with regard to LEL.
Regrettably, if you want to enter LEL this year you won't be able to use Paypal. Payment will be by bank transfer only. If you want to whack the entry fee onto a card you can use a company such as transferwise to make the bank transfer. You can even do this if you're in the UK, by paying us in euros (or dollars).
We're still going to use Paypal for jersey sales, as we can absorb that restriction onto our cashflow. But for entry, I'm afraid we're going to have to ask you to carry out a bit more admin than we would have liked you to.
Very sorry, but we hope you understand.