Although Tina’s pay if forward for PIP account will close, it was a successful endeavor. Fundraising for a charitable cause directly through MFI has never been done before. This was a watershed event and we appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience throughout the process. Allowing Tina to utilize MFI for a different outcome made a huge difference to two women in need (Rebecca and Sue). Below I’ve attached a letter of gratitude from Sue Coates, one of the women who will undergo surgery on June 13th, because of your assistance. We’ll conduct a follow up interview with both Sue and Rebecca after their operations.

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Hello MFI,

My name is Sue Coates, I am one of the ladies you have offered to help with the removal & replacement of PIP implants.

I found out in January of 2012 that I have PIP implants, and I must say the news came as a very big shock. After several letters from my local NHS hospital I was seen by a consultant, who offered no help at all. I was devestated and didn’t know where to turn.

I contacted a PIP implants help group on Facebook, where I met Antonia Mariconda, Tina, and other supporters. They offered assistance in getting a removal and replacement, which has been wonderful. I really dont know where I would be without the support of our small group of wonderful women.

As for my upcoming surgery, I cannot stress to you how greatful I am for your kind donations. This has been such a hard time for my family and I, but your generosity and Tina’s fundraising has made such a difference to us. I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I am an emotional girl but when I got the call telling me about your support I nearly fell off my chair. Honestly, I cried quite a lot, which is no surprise considering what was being offered to me.

What you are doing is a wonderful thing, and if there is anything I can do in return then please dont hesitate to ask.

Thank you again you are a truely wonderful people.

Team Donations work in the following manner:

A benefactor (let’s call him Mr. Generous) discovers a lady on the site he would like to support, but he’s not quite sure she will stick around long enough to reach her goal, so instead of committing to a donation he makes a pledge for $50.00. At the time of the pledge, Mr. Generous provides his billing information and we run an authorization for $50. This is NOT a sale at this point — just an authorization that it’s a valid credit card and there are sufficient funds to cover the $50. She has not received any money in her account at this point (yet).

Another benefactor (Mr. Charitable) logs into the website and sees the above mentioned lady has received a pledge of $50. He checks out her profile, maybe exchanges a few messages with her and ultimately he decides that she is a worthy risk to invest in. So he pulls out his credit card and chooses to match Mr. Generous’s $50 pledge. At that point we create two transactions:

1. A brand new SALE for Mr. Charitable’s $50 match, and if approved…
2. …we convert Mr. Generous’s $50 authorization into a sale.

The net effect here should be obvious. This lovey lady gets a boost to her earnings by $100, and it only cost each of the benefactors half of that amount — hence the title of “Team Donations”

There are a couple other things to know about Team Donations:

• The initial pledge must be made with a new credit card transaction — this way we can ensure that the funds are available at the time of a donation match.
• The donation match can be made with either Boob Bucks from ones Boob Bank balance, OR a new credit card transaction.
• When the original pledge is made you may see a hold placed on the funds by your credit card company.
• If no one matches a pledge by the expiration date, the original authorization gets voided and nothing is charged to your credit card — further reducing any perceived risk of donating.
• Completed pledges and matches are treated just like any other donation in that if she doesn’t reach her goal and quits the site, the donations come back to you as Boob Bucks so that you can recycle those donations for use with someone else — including another match opportunity!
• In some very rare cases the conversion from an authorization to a sale may fail, in this case we still proceed with the second match donation and treat it like a regular donation.
• You can technically match your own pledge if you wanted to.

It’s worth pointing out that the pledge expiration date is not adjustable since we have no control over how long a credit card company will hold an authorization on a card for. In actuality the duration varies from card company to card company and isn’t published anywhere (that I know of).

We think that Team Donations are a great way to hedge your bet on new ladies accounts that you may be on the fence about donating to. It’s rare that just one donor will carry a lady all the way to HOF on his own, but if he’s got the support of other donors then it can certainly help to not only convince her to stick it out for the long run, but also convince other donors to support her since she’s more likely to succeed with the backing of others.

And… now that we’re featuring these expiring team donations more prominently, it’s a way to actually PUSH ladies that you’re interested in in front of other potential donors! It’s almost like putting out a no-risk advertisement for your friends profiles.

A couple of enhancements to this features that we are considering are:

• Displaying the username and/or the feedback rating of the donor who has made the pledge.
• Letting ladies make pledges to their own profiles (but not matches).

What features would you like to see to make Team Donations more effective and fun?

Shorten time to receive abandoned message credits: When a lady deletes her account on her own accord, any paid message credits she had received will come back to the donors immediately — just like donations. For accounts that go inactive by being dormant or suspended there is no change and those credits will come back to the original donor on the regular schedule (assuming the lady they were sent to didn’t reach HOF). This change ONLY applies to accounts where a lady actively clicks the “Delete My Account” button herself, or if management removes an account from the site for a violation of the rules.

Access inactive ladies profiles: For ladies profiles that are no longer active you will still be able to access her profile, but it will be a limited view:

1. Only 3 tabs will be shown: profile, photos, conversations
2. the action buttons such as “Block User”, “Report User”, “Send Message” and etc. , “Donation panel” will not be available, but the Unfriend button will be so you can remove them from your friends lists
3. On the “Photos tab” only “My Personal Pics” menu will be available so that you can access any private pics she may have sent you for a donation.

Keyboard control for paging through photos Just use the left/right arrow keys on your keyboard to flip through photo galleries.

Email notifications for pledge matches Now when another benefactor matches one of your pledges, you will be notified via email (according to your email preferences) that the pledge was matched. We’ve also highlighted Expiring Pledges on The Latest page to help bring more awareness to donation pledges.

Custom MFI Business Cards for ladies Ladies can now download printable MFI business cards with their username and unique referral URL on them. These can be printed out and handed out at clubs, bars, events, or anywhere else you want to promote. They would really go over well if you were wearing an MFI shirt!

Plus a bunch of various bug fixes including some lingering Chat issues that seem to only be affected a small subset of people, as well as ongoing efforts to optimize code to improve page loading performance.

We’re also working on optimizing our internal development processes by eliminating some inefficiencies and reducing unnecessary procedural steps to try and bring more clarity to the progress of tasks. The goal here is to streamline the development cycle and deliver more frequent site updates to you.

The other items was missing chat requests if you changed the page you were on. We now queue those up and display them across multiple page views until they are either accepted, rejected or time-out. So this should help alleviate any issues of missed requests. Oh, and it also shows multiple requests too, so you can page through all of the chat requests you have.

We also optimized the performance in a lot of key areas as well to help speed things up.

We’re still working on a few requests like the ability to resize the webcam viewport while still keeping a chat conversation up. If you are still experiencing problems with your chat for any reason please do let us know through the help section.