Currency Change! (Patreon)
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Hello dear supporters,We just want to inform you that we changed our currency to euro! (tl;dr yada yada yada more money for patreon, less money for creators, as always) Why?Every month we lose a lot of the money you give us to the shitty fantasy-exchange-rate on paypal (there is also a option to use payoneer, but the rates are even shittier :'D) This is how most transaction-companies work (they tell you it has no fees, but the fee is hidden in the shitty rate. But if we have the same currency, we don't lose money this way.BUT:To keep things for youas transparent as possible: Patreon is not better than paypal, payoneer or any other companies. They make their own (shitty) rate (and advertise it as following:
In order to determine the prices to display in other currencies, we’ve used current and historical exchange rates to arrive at an average exchange rate for each currency. Then, after using that average rate to convert to a new currency, we add a 4.5% buffer to protect creators against potential currency fluctuations, and then round up to the nearest 50 cents so that we show patrons a price with round numbers. )
ALSO there will be a CURRENCY FEE (2.5%), for us, your lovely creators. we don't have any choice by that even if we would keep the dollar-currency, so its better to change to euro for us because we have to pay this fee anyways (yey.) SO...?Good news first! You, as our current supporters, are not affected by the change (at least patreon tells so). So you don't need to pay for example 2euro, its still 2 dollars (I think right now its 1.71 Euro. But, if you are a new supporter from now, you have to pay at least 2 euro. I hope you all can understand this issue!Thanks a lot for your support, it really means the world to us :)Stay sane and healthy!