just wanted to be able to say he wasn't at the bottom level. Guess it just made him feel better. The donation didn't divide out evenly to the number of seats he buys so technically, for the sole purpose of seat selection, some of his donation was "wasted". Of course, no amount of any donation to the VTAF is wasted.
I tried to explain that his donation wasn't helping him for seat selection but it was important to him to be able to say his level was higher than the bottom level.
He's playing the new seat selection game by the old rules.