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That new Patreon service fee
🕑 Added 2017-12-07 20:03:09 +0000 UTC Hey everyone, Coury here. As you may have heard by now, Patreon has stupidly changed the way service fees are handled. Up until recently, the creator paid the transaction fee, but for some reason, Patreon has decided that the Patron will be the one to carry that burden instead.You can get all the details here: https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
We wanted you to know that we are pretty angry with what Patreon is doing. Since we offer everything at our 1 dollar tier, it means that we have a bunch of Patrons at that level who will have to pay an additional 38 cents on top of it.
We've already lost a good number of our Patrons today due to this, and I don't blame anyone for it. If you stick around, we just wanted to let you know that we really appreciate everything. Its our hope that it doesn't take long for Patreon to walk it back, their heads held low.
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Kelly Greenidge
Question for you guys. I want to get a AV receiver for my setup but don’t know where to start. What do you guys think about the yamaha rx-v483? My local PX/BX has one for $267.97. It was $369 but they dropped the price.
I'm happy to say that our feedback has changed Patreon's mind. They're not going to institute the fees. I've repledged through here.
I'll keep on the support guys. Hang in! If you'd prefer us to switch to direct paypal, just let us know!
Dad and Lads Gaming
It’s bad but I’ll still be supporting you. Keep up the awesome work.
I'm wondering what the best way to complain about this is. The amount of money seems small, sure, but the bigger thing I think is that the less clean, simple, and straightforward it is for a person to be a patron, the more likely they are to do it. Add in fees, percentages, some 40 cent fee etc, and I think this will dissuade people.
ReeseRiverson
I know they use this, that's normally linked to their livestreams. <a href="https://streamlabs.com/mylifeingaming" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://streamlabs.com/mylifeingaming</a>
Hi guys. I already wrote into Patreon to tell them I think this is ridiculous and that I'd be pulling my funding. I don't have a lot to offer, but my small contribution is now basically nothing. I want to send you guys my contribution a different way. Is there any other donation system you guys will accept?
Is a 100% bull shit move on patreon's part.
Jeremy Rutz
Same. I plan to keep on supporting you guys. The 38 cents extra is nothing compared to the the great content you produce that I get to watch.
ReeseRiverson
I may change up my pledges with some, but I plan to continue to support MLiG the same as I've always been. Though hopefully they'll stop these changes.
I wish there was a way to change to a less frequent billing cycle or maybe even annual so that charges are not incurred on tiny transactions every single month. My first reaction was to see if I could do that to help.
