Keep the Fly-Spray Ready (Patreon)
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I did find out something today about Pay-Up-Front and why it isn't the site-wide default: It's expensive. The banks charge a fee per transaction, so Patreon gets a better rate if they lump all of the charges together into one big transaction on the first of the month, rather than having a whole bunch of little ones scattered around everywhere. The point of this is to maximize the amount of money that creators get to keep .. and yeah, it does make sense. The downside though, is that it leaves the door open for fraudsters and free-samplers to take stuff without paying for it.
Seeing my numbers soar up above $500 back in - when was it, September? - that was really exciting. But it was a balls-crushing tragedy when my actual payday wound up being only $222.
I would rather lose a few pennies & know that my pledges are real, than keep on having to deal with constant fake offers pouring in .. but I'm not being given that choice. Pay-Up-Front is still not available for me.
Anyway, I'm done complaining about this. Let's sit back and have us a pleasant November. I promise you that I will only mention Kringlemas ONCE this month (and that was it, just then.)