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mk  ·  4785 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dwolla is trying to kill credit cards.
That was educational. Thank you for that.

scarp, I wrote a rpg book and had to buy a bunch of art. Many of the artists I hired asked that I pay them by check rather than PayPal because PayPal takes such a big cut. Artists would rather see the money later than now because PayPal takes enough that it hurts. Right there I can see these artists being pretty excited about Dwolla.

Actually, I currently sell these books via PayPal for $33.95. I just checked, and the last two I sold, I took in $32.33. That means PayPal charges me $1.62, a 4.8% fee on each book sold. I'd rather $0.25, which is 0.07%.





kleinbl00  ·  4785 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The mac pro I type this on was purchased off of eBay for $2500.

The paypal fees were over $80.

mk  ·  4785 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Well, $2500 is a lot more bandwidth and storage than $35. I mean, that's two more digits you're talking about there. :)
kleinbl00  ·  4785 days ago  ·  link  ·  
On the plus side, it earned me enough "ebay bucks" to buy a wacom bamboo. I just need more circuses with my bread.