On its Facebook page, The Christian Left promotes incentives for donors who make contributions through Paypal. I was one donor, and made my contribution on May 26, based on the proviso that in reciprocity TCL would send particular merchandise. The Christian Left failed to deliver, and instead issued numerous stalls such as "we'll be shipping in the next two weeks, " etc. They did this to buy time until Paypal's 45-day window for filing a claim had expired, leaving me without recourse. Furthermore, by arranging this as a "donation in exchange for merchandise" rather than just a sale to BUY the merchandise, they are further protected from complaints via Paypal.
Once the 45 days were up, in order to prevent me from revealing that they had reneged on their own offer, they simply blocked me from being to post on their Facebook wall, even though my only correspondence with them was to inquire about the delayed shipments of merchandise. They have declined to reply to any of my inquiries about the situation.
I later found, through an archived page of their blog, that in September they had assured donors that the promised merchandise (a shirt, to be specific) "would ship very soon." So The Christian Left has been doing this for at least a year as of this posting! Apparently, nobody has EVER received the promotional shirts that The Christian Left uses to bait donors, and I've found that many people have confirmed to me that they too were simply "silenced" from The Christian Left's Facebook page upon posting an inquiry about the matter.
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