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-Trekcetera eventually acknowledged the cash infusion on October 4, singling out Axanar's Peters and Watkins.+**AxaMonitor** attempted to reach the museum operators to confirm the financial claims in Watkins' GoFundMe campaign about its emergency need to make a loan payment. While they did not answer our email, (see "[[#Unanswered Questions by Trekcetera]]"), Trekcetera eventually acknowledged receiving the GoFundMe money on October 4, singling out Axanar's Peters and Watkins for thanks.
  
 > Thanks to all the Star Trek fans who came to our aid over the past day and a half. We received their generous contributions this morning via PayPal and are now able to focus on making Trekcetera Canada’s best Star Trek and vintage TV museum! To Reece, Alec and all our fans who provided moral and financial support: "Live long and prosper.” And thanks.(([[face>TrekceteraMuseum/posts/792987737547817|Post on Trekcetera Facebook page]], 10/4/17.)) > Thanks to all the Star Trek fans who came to our aid over the past day and a half. We received their generous contributions this morning via PayPal and are now able to focus on making Trekcetera Canada’s best Star Trek and vintage TV museum! To Reece, Alec and all our fans who provided moral and financial support: "Live long and prosper.” And thanks.(([[face>TrekceteraMuseum/posts/792987737547817|Post on Trekcetera Facebook page]], 10/4/17.))
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-Previously, neither Trekcetera's [[https://www.facebook.com/TrekceteraMuseum/|Facebook page]] nor its [[http://www.trekcetera.com|website]] mentioned the ostensibly third-party GoFundMe effort or the need for a big cash infusion to save it from defaulting on its debt.+Previously, neither Trekcetera's [[https://www.facebook.com/TrekceteraMuseum/|Facebook page]] nor its [[http://www.trekcetera.com|website]] mentioned the ostensibly third-party GoFundMe effort or the need for a big cash payment to save it from defaulting on its debt.
  
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 >  I offered to help get the money to the guys in Canada because [they] don’t have a U.S. bank account that can receive the funds raised via the GoFundMe campaign. I’ve already sent an amount of money to the museum’s PayPal account today that is equal to what GoFundMe is sending to me next Monday, so they can cover their immediate cash needs. The amount I’ll be receiving from GoFundMe, I assume, already has the credit card processing and related fees owed to GoFundMe taken out of it, so all I’ll be out is the accumulated interest for five days’ “float” on the money — I’m happy to write that off.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 10/4/17.)) >  I offered to help get the money to the guys in Canada because [they] don’t have a U.S. bank account that can receive the funds raised via the GoFundMe campaign. I’ve already sent an amount of money to the museum’s PayPal account today that is equal to what GoFundMe is sending to me next Monday, so they can cover their immediate cash needs. The amount I’ll be receiving from GoFundMe, I assume, already has the credit card processing and related fees owed to GoFundMe taken out of it, so all I’ll be out is the accumulated interest for five days’ “float” on the money — I’m happy to write that off.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 10/4/17.))
  
-Bawden said he sent all the money raised except for the fees charged by GoFundMe, and that the tax liability for the money was a non-issue: "As for tax liabilities I may or may not be incurring, don’t worry about it. That’s not really anyone’s business but mine."((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 10/4/17.))+Bawden explained he had sent all the money raised except for the fees charged by GoFundMe, and that the tax liability for the money was a non-issue: "As for tax liabilities I may or may not be incurring, don’t worry about it. That’s not really anyone’s business but mine."((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 10/4/17.))
  
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   - **ACCOUNTABILITY** Do you have an arrangement with Mr. Peters or Mr. Watkins regarding how money they raise will be disbursed by them to you, how accountability for funds raised and disbursed on your behalf will be assured to donors and to your licensor, CBS?   - **ACCOUNTABILITY** Do you have an arrangement with Mr. Peters or Mr. Watkins regarding how money they raise will be disbursed by them to you, how accountability for funds raised and disbursed on your behalf will be assured to donors and to your licensor, CBS?
   - **AXANAR BACKING** Are you comfortable officially associating yourself as a CBS licensee with a group that was sued by your licensor for copyright infringement?   - **AXANAR BACKING** Are you comfortable officially associating yourself as a CBS licensee with a group that was sued by your licensor for copyright infringement?
-  - **PERKS** The GoFundMe also includes an offer to "help [you] with the fulfillment of perks" — even though none are mentioned on the gofundme page, and Axanar's public [[perks|record on perk fulfillment]] is less than exemplary.+  - **PERKS** The GoFundMe also includes an offer to "help [you] with the fulfillment of perks" — even though none are mentioned on the GoFundMe page, and Axanar's public [[perks|record on perk fulfillment]] is less than exemplary.
  
 Despite Watkin's explicit mention of perks, Axanar spokesman Bawden said the offer was irrelevant: "I have no idea about anything concerning perk fulfillment. As far as I know, there are no perks to fulfill."((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 10/4/17.)) {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}} Despite Watkin's explicit mention of perks, Axanar spokesman Bawden said the offer was irrelevant: "I have no idea about anything concerning perk fulfillment. As far as I know, there are no perks to fulfill."((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 10/4/17.)) {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}