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I am on a private net. I try sending ether to a contract address. It just doesn't work. 

eth.sendTransaction({from: eth.coinbase, to: "0x39ce9b3b171da836afb02cbe2eff8d4e4fd6f174", 
     value: web3.toWei(3, "ether"), gas:90000000})

I did unlock my account. I also run a miner. Increased the gas to other higher values, etc. I really do not know what is wrong with it?

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    Did the contract defines a payable function? – Badr Bellaj♦ Nov 21 '16 at 11:20
  • See this FAQ for reference solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/… – Tjaden Hess♦ Nov 21 '16 at 16:24
  • I don't think that you can transfer ether to any contract address like this. You need to call a function from the contract to handle the sent ether or need to define fallback function. – Aniket Nov 22 '16 at 7:33
  • Thanks, I added payable keyword to the function and it worked. function paypremium() public payable { .....} – user813 Nov 22 '16 at 8:35
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Try to put the from with an actual address and see if it work.

eth.sendTransaction({from: "/* Contact Address*/", to: "0x39ce9b3b171da836afb02cbe2eff8d4e4fd6f174", 
 value: web3.toWei(3, "ether"), gas:90000000})
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