I think what you see is standard paypal and not much under our control.
However, we will look to see if there are easy improvements.

Re province: I think you will find that if you first select your country
that you will then see your state as an option.

I suspect that if you retried and selected your country first that things
would go more smoothly. And yes, the card number has a simple encoding of
the card type and I think transactions not requiring explicit card type are
not uncommon.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM, David Ward Lambert <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 12:00 +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > donate (Eric Iverson)
>
> Comments by me, Dave Lambert---
>
> Please repair donation web site.  It's "provincial", not globally
> general.  I live in USA and attempted to donate by credit card.  The
> problems I experienced:
>
> 1) Given a set of provinces from which to choose, Ontario is nearest and
> I enjoy canoing Algonquin park, however I live in New York state which
> is not an option.  The people likely to donate are probably also smart
> enough to type their address into a paragraph entry field.  And, do you
> actually need billing address?  Verification is the only reason I can
> think of for having it.
>
> 2) The credit card type is not an active set of buttons.  Perhaps you
> can tell the card type based on the card number?  This is a variance
> from the customary conventional importance of card type.
>
> After entering information best I could the donations site responds:
>
> Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please correct your
> entries and try again.
>
>      * City: Please enter a valid City.
>      * City, State, ZIP Code: Please enter a valid combination of City,
>        State, and ZIP Code.
>      * State: Please enter a valid State.
>      * ZIP Code: Please enter a valid ZIP Code.
>
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