ineloquentformalities:
theannualskaiaball:
A problem with PayPal payments:
PayPal changed their fee policy. Now, if we want to receive money WITHOUT being taxed, the person has to already have a PayPal account and be paying under “sending money to family or friends”. If they don’t have a PayPal, THEY get charged .59cents, or they can choose that we, the seller, get charged .59cents.
In other words: now you have to have a PayPal in order not to get charged for sending money. If you don’t have a PayPal, either you or the seller will be charged.
Unfortunately this isn’t something we can work around. We’ve lost a little more than $40 from this super lame new rule. If you can, PLEASE pay in a group with someone who ALREADY HAS A PAYPAL ACCOUNT. Or else, maybe you’re willing to take on the .59cent fee for us? :(
Thank you, and we’re really sorry for the inconvenience.
Please be aware everyone.
“The rates go up with the price. It’s not 59 cents per transaction. It fluctuates depending on how large your payment is.”
I love how there are +2000 artists who are trying to rip off a service that is completely invaluable to them and keep them afloat on the internet. This is something that no other site has been able to replicate successfully or reliably and aritsts want to endanger that service by trying to get something for nothing.
They don’t owe you something for free, this is their company and you agreed to these fees when you signed up. This is basically the cost of the postage of having to send the cash, or the cheque, to the artist if paypal didn’t exist (except in a safe way because the cheque might bounce, the cash might get lost in the mail, and money orders are invalid from country to country). By the way, when paypal catches you doing this (which they will, because they look into this sort of thing extremely diligently) how are you going to accept your payments? When paypal catches you, they’re not going to listen to complaints because you are not a paying customer. You are a scammer.
Paypal isn’t doing this to rip you off but you are spreading this information around to rip them off. This isn’t different from clients who try to get out of paying artists for work. You signed a contract to pay these fees and if this happened the other way around you’d be bitching about it.
You lost $40? How much did you make if they only took .50 cents from each transaction? If you’re any good at math, it’s more than $40. How much would you have made if you didn’t have paypal? These fees are not unreasonable at all, these are standard to the industry. If you rented a machine to process transactions you’d have to pay the same fees if not more, plus the cost of actually renting the machine.
This really gets my goat. I really hope people stop spreading this harmful information around, it just damages and hurts artists in the end. This is your business, you have to make investments.
I want to put this in a gilded frame and hang it on my wall.
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