I come home from an amazing trip to an email from VISA, letting me know they're increasing their annual merchant fee from $500 to $950, and there's nothing I can do because they've got a monopoly and I need them to have a business.
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I come home from an amazing trip to an email from VISA, letting me know they're increasing their annual merchant fee from $500 to $950, and there's nothing I can do because they've got a monopoly and I need them to have a business.
If Mastercard contact me soon to do the same thing, they will have effectively doubled my fees and I legit will need to make some difficult decisions about my future.
@JenJen so I'd be better off posting you cash notes at this point?
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I come home from an amazing trip to an email from VISA, letting me know they're increasing their annual merchant fee from $500 to $950, and there's nothing I can do because they've got a monopoly and I need them to have a business.
If Mastercard contact me soon to do the same thing, they will have effectively doubled my fees and I legit will need to make some difficult decisions about my future.
@JenJen I don't know if it's a stupid idea or not, but have you considered setting up a coop with other artists. You could split the costs across the members and create a single website that would cross market. It wouldn't be easy and would require trust and cooperation but I thought I'd throw the idea out, in case it was of value.
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Doing morning accounts with a thumb-injured Husbeard
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Doing morning accounts with a thumb-injured Husbeard
Husbeard losing his mind at my spreadsheet
"Why - what is"
"Oh I merged them"
"Why"
"Because it looks pretty"
"WHY WOULD YOU MERGE THEM" -
Husbeard losing his mind at my spreadsheet
"Why - what is"
"Oh I merged them"
"Why"
"Because it looks pretty"
"WHY WOULD YOU MERGE THEM"Currently it looks like Im earning less on CCBILL than my annual Visa fee to use CCBILL - it's close to Zero, like my annual Ccbill income cancels out the fee.
Sooo I'm earning nothing for the privilege to exist to take payment.
Positives: Number Do Be Going Up Every Month.
Reminder: I draw sexy pictures.
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Currently it looks like Im earning less on CCBILL than my annual Visa fee to use CCBILL - it's close to Zero, like my annual Ccbill income cancels out the fee.
Sooo I'm earning nothing for the privilege to exist to take payment.
Positives: Number Do Be Going Up Every Month.
Reminder: I draw sexy pictures.
@JenJen
I'll see if Elavon decides to play nice with my bank nowadays... -
For now I'll do an update for my studio members and then sink myself into the end of the month page crunch.
TL;DR: I have to pay VISA/Mastercard annual fees because I draw erotica, and CCBill take bigger cuts of my income because I'm considered High Risk for... Drawing Erotica.
@JenJen Yeah, risky. Erotica. As if it's not one of the few things that will always accompany humanity. ffs.
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@JenJen so I'd be better off posting you cash notes at this point?
@M0YNG I think we'll be returning to the British Tradition of "hedge porn" soon
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Currently it looks like Im earning less on CCBILL than my annual Visa fee to use CCBILL - it's close to Zero, like my annual Ccbill income cancels out the fee.
Sooo I'm earning nothing for the privilege to exist to take payment.
Positives: Number Do Be Going Up Every Month.
Reminder: I draw sexy pictures.
Thank you all for the comments and suggestions
️ sorry I'm not responding much - I'm making comic pages atm and will do another studio update with my Plan etc in a bit. -
I come home from an amazing trip to an email from VISA, letting me know they're increasing their annual merchant fee from $500 to $950, and there's nothing I can do because they've got a monopoly and I need them to have a business.
If Mastercard contact me soon to do the same thing, they will have effectively doubled my fees and I legit will need to make some difficult decisions about my future.
@JenJen
Excuse me borrowing an idea from major corporations and political parties here, but have you considered lying as an option?"Yes I'm an artist but I only paint pretty flowers, colourful butterflies and beautiful landscapes. Definitely nothing that a payment processor would ever object to."
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@M0YNG I think we'll be returning to the British Tradition of "hedge porn" soon
@JenJen Sex with a privet bush might work but I'm not sticking anything sensitive into a holly bush!
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@JenJen Sex with a privet bush might work but I'm not sticking anything sensitive into a holly bush!
@DickDiamond Very wise
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@M0YNG I think we'll be returning to the British Tradition of "hedge porn" soon
@JenJen Huh. I don’t think it’s ever occurred to me before, but British ‘Hedge Porn’ does sound like a term that could pass beyond these shores and intrigue some kind of, for example, Swedish moss witch character enough to explore foreign lands in search of.
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@JenJen Huh. I don’t think it’s ever occurred to me before, but British ‘Hedge Porn’ does sound like a term that could pass beyond these shores and intrigue some kind of, for example, Swedish moss witch character enough to explore foreign lands in search of.
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@JenJen Perfect!
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Thank you all for the comments and suggestions
️ sorry I'm not responding much - I'm making comic pages atm and will do another studio update with my Plan etc in a bit.Oh bloody hell
an anonymous person bought one of my originals as a "tip" and is asking me to keep it, because they want to just support what I do and there is no proper paypal tip jar for them to useThank you *so* much - and Im sorry I can't use a regular tip jar! But it was requested that I add a "tip option" to my shop so they can chuck in a bit extra like that.
I'll look into it. I know woocommerce have that plugin, so I'll see if I can enable it safely.
Thank you again
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Oh bloody hell
an anonymous person bought one of my originals as a "tip" and is asking me to keep it, because they want to just support what I do and there is no proper paypal tip jar for them to useThank you *so* much - and Im sorry I can't use a regular tip jar! But it was requested that I add a "tip option" to my shop so they can chuck in a bit extra like that.
I'll look into it. I know woocommerce have that plugin, so I'll see if I can enable it safely.
Thank you again
️@JenJen
If you still have Booster you could always add a PAYF product as a "donation/tip" product -
@JenJen
Excuse me borrowing an idea from major corporations and political parties here, but have you considered lying as an option?"Yes I'm an artist but I only paint pretty flowers, colourful butterflies and beautiful landscapes. Definitely nothing that a payment processor would ever object to."
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Oh bloody hell
an anonymous person bought one of my originals as a "tip" and is asking me to keep it, because they want to just support what I do and there is no proper paypal tip jar for them to useThank you *so* much - and Im sorry I can't use a regular tip jar! But it was requested that I add a "tip option" to my shop so they can chuck in a bit extra like that.
I'll look into it. I know woocommerce have that plugin, so I'll see if I can enable it safely.
Thank you again
️@JenJen I don't know if this is an option, but if adding a tip jar is an issue how about a page that is a version of "Buy me a coffee" You could have different sizes available.
OK, now I've had my thought for the day, I'm going to lie down in a dark room until the pain and smell of burning brain cell subsides. -
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