Over on the Come On Knitpicks site a few days ago was a comment with a link to a Bendigo Mills – please get a website! petition. I went to the site, filled in the form, then ended up on a page asking for a donation.

Having had many, many computer nerd friends over the years, I’m always wary of handing over money to websites I don’t really know much about. I certainly didn’t know if this petition site was worth donating too. So I left the check boxes for the various donation amounts unchecked and clicked “continue”.

At which point the site decided I would be donating $10 and somehow hooked the information that I use the beau’s Paypal account out of my computer and put his name up.

Alarm bells were ringing at this point, so I just closed the window and warned the beau that if a request for approval of a Paypal charge of $10 came through, he should block it. I expected that my name wouldn’t appear on the petition, but it has, along with 47 other names. And the beau hasn’t reported any shonky Paypal transactions.

So I’m not sure if I should recommend people go there and sign it or not. Maybe go there, sign it, then just close the window after you submit your name. For all that the site’s setup screams ‘shonky!’ at me, I do like the idea of Bendy receiving hundreds of request for them to step into this century and get a website.