Pretty irritated regarding not only the changes, but also the amount of transparency, and the company’s overall TONE in their communication of the changes.
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Yes, it basically makes the patron pay 30% more PER PLEDGE. To cover CC fees, I guess? I was fine paying that.
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Wait... 30% to cover credit card fees? I worked in the payment card industry for 8 years... An ASTRONOMICAL ripoff of a CC % charge rate is 4% of the transaction $ amount. How are they justifying a 30% increase?
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Same. :( I'm already struggling so much, I don't want to give up support completely.
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Lower amount patrons are seeing a massive increase. It lowers as it goes up, a $20 patron sees only a 4% increase, but I'm not sure people are swimming in $20+ patrons.
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It makes no sense, especially since many people on Patreon help multiple creators.
Now, instead of Patreon taking a fee when they take their entire month's payments out and the creators covering a portion of that fee, they take a fee per each pledge.
Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.
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Yeah, ditto. I was happily covering it so that my Patrons were paying what they wanted to pay.
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One sources says its an increase from (2.9% +$0.30) to 5%. right?
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Nope. It's an increase on the patron side from 0% to 2.9%+.35 /per pledge/, and capping the Patreon cut of that increased amount at 5% so that the creator now always gets 95% of the new higher value instead of the 85-95% that they could get depending on CC fees.
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