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		InclinedPlane on Dec 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creat... The pledge is $1, what the patron pays is different from the pledge, that's the point. (It's not a good system but I'm not sure what you're getting hung up on.)

jopsen on Dec 8, 2017 [–]

They used to bundle CC transactions, when they stop doing that micro payments become infeasible.

So transaction cost for a lot of 1$ pledges goes from 5-10% to 31%.

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