Bank payment processing problems (Patreon)

Hi there,

We creators (in general) are experiencing again a high volume of declined payments, just as the past month. Maybe not as bad, but definitely not good.

In our case, we're down a 11% at this moment.

I won't throw a fit against Patreon, like last time, and will take long breathes hoping all gets sorted out. Nevertheless, "hoping" is not a reassuring word when your livelihood is in the line, so I kindly ask you guys that if your bank has rejected the payment, please either try to tell them to go through with future retries, or better yet, that you switch your payment method to PayPal.

If you don't want to, please be advised of this information we've got from EroDev Discord server...:

- American Express cards may not work to pledge to patreon based on what region you're in; if you use it and it isn't working anymore, then you'll need to use another card, OR link your card up with PayPal and then use PayPal to pay, using your card through PayPal as a middleman.

- Pre-paid cards don't work anymore either as a direct payment method; however, you might be able to link it through PayPal as above, but it's unlikely it'll work TBH, you will likely need to link a card that is linked to a bank account OR link a bank account directly to your paypal.

I don't know if this applies only to US patrons or not. At any rate, we'd be grateful if you try to take some steps to help minimizing this loss, that I very much like to hope it won't be the norm. :-/

Thank you!