There is a different between donating and buying. I don't know how I would need to explain this to someone but when you donate, you are giving without any expectation of something in return to help support a community. You only get perks for donating as a "Thank you for donating" gift. Even if you did donate, it wouldn't make you a customer, it would make you what the rank is called, a Donor. The reason why I donated towards this server is because my wages had just come in, I felt very welcome (I still do) in a brilliant community and I wanted to give something to support it and keep it going. I'm not trying to big myself up, I'm just stating the reason that pretty much every Donor had when they decided to give to the community. A non profit community.
Tea and crumpets will always blow my trumpets!
Oddbodd the musical man,
He is musical whenever he can.
With all of these rhymes
that he makes all the time,
Oddbodd the musical man.
He is musical whenever he can.
With all of these rhymes
that he makes all the time,
Oddbodd the musical man.