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Ran into a problem on the new site.
🕑 Added 2021-10-22 05:00:00 +0000 UTCActually, these past 2 weeks of website building have been nothing BUT problems. It's like I'm dealing with a Hydra of problems; solve 1 problem, and 2~3 more appear. Still, I guess it's part and parcel of building a site all on your own, eh?
By the way, how you doin'? Good?
Anyway, there's a problem that I've run into as I'm building the new site, one which loosely connects back here on pixivFANBOX: The credit card processor which I'm using takes about 50% of the $1 dollar tier I'm setting up there.
What do I mean?
I've currently integrated my site with "Stripe", a credit card processing company that makes their profits by taking a percentage fee of every transaction made. That fee (for my country) would be 3.4% + 50 cents. You can see it yourself by clicking here.
How is this a problem?
Well, the problem is the flat + 50 cents. This means that the lower the transaction amount, the higher the percentage that Stripe would take.
So, using the $1 tier as an example; for every $1 transaction, Stripe would take 3.4% + 50 cents = 53 cents. In other words, Stripe takes a whopping 53% of the $1 tier (HOLY SHIT). Honestly, you'd be supporting Stripe more and RandoWis less in this case.
If we used the $3 tier as an example; for every $3 transaction, Stripe would take 3.4% + 50 cents = 59 cents. $0.59 would be 19% of $3.
The lower the transaction amount, the higher the percentage taken.
Unlike what is advertised, majority of your money isn't going into supporting RandoWis (which technically makes me a fraud, haha).
"What about pixivFANBOX?", you might ask.
pixivFANBOX takes a flat 10% of the total amount earned. Another way to look at it, is that for every $1 pledged here, pixivFANBOX takes 10 cents. Arigatou gozaimasu, FANBOX senpai.
The solution?
It pains me to say this, but in order for most of a supporter's money to go into actually supporting RandoWis, and to make the tiers viable for me to even earn from, tiers are going to begin at $3 on the new RandoWis site. I'll also be adding a $7 tier there so as to not choke potential supporters with too little choices (a mistake I made here, when we first started), making the options available on 'randowis.com': $3, $5, $7 (all in USD).
What's this news got to do with here?
Well, it's my intention to make the experience of supporting me here and 'randowis.com' to be as identical as possible, if not completely identical. For this reason, I intend to add a ¥700 (~7 USD) option for this FANBOX page as well.
Many of you, if not all of you, know that I am not a fan of making higher tiers, but if 'randowis.com' would have this option, I feel it's only fair that it be available here too.
However, I'll only add this ¥700 option after relaunching the main RandoWis site.
What do you think?
I know I've said time and time again that I won't add anymore tiers, yet here we are not only adding another one, but removing the smallest tier on 'randowis.com'. I can only apologise for these constant contradictions, and that the reasons above are enough to justify these decisions. While I know some wouldn't mind, I implore those that do to please speak your mind.
As I come to terms with myself for making these changes, I'd thought it be at least fair to inform you all first before implementing them.
So, let me know your thoughts if you have any!
Love it? Hate it? Let me know in the comments!
Feedback is always welcome, so please speak your mind!
Love you much much, and I'll see you in the next post! ♥
-RandoWis
Comments
I think that you can't run away from adding higher tiers from time to time. Because the Industry won't let you be with your money. They will take as much from you as they can, so I can totally understand that the 1$ tier brings nothing to you, while you need higher tiers to make at least some profit. With time the prices for everything rises. So you can't avoid it at all, even if you want to do it for us. I think it's okay and understandable for you to do that. You got my full support.
Man, we all just want you to be happy and succeed. Do what you gotta do to make it happen and let us help you along the way
I'm here to support my dude! Bring on the higher tiers!
ChoseBinne
Can't speak for everyone, but since I've seen your bbbbeoooooooutifuuuulll face I don't mind paying 5$ a month, and wouldn't mind paying 7$ neither. (and 7$ would be the same amount gained on both sites, around 70 cents taken by the credit system). I hope we will see you again, you have physical humor and I loved it!
Would adding the option to pay every 3 month be thinkable? It could reduce the cost per transaction, paying only a third of the cost to Stripe. It would make the experience differ from supporting you on fanbox though
Rando admits to fraud Rando demands yet more money Rando continues to lie through his teeth All in all, another day being a supporter! Jokes aside, Pixiv sucks ass for Heroin money, I'd rather be in Randowis official. I also feel that yes you need to make money so adding a slightly higher base tier is fair as is adding higher tiers for those of us who are sons of oil tycoons. Gotta make ends meet son.
AtomicOwll
Просто возьми мои деньги папочка
Taco_y_Tako
Rando needs funds for food, so it's totally understandable.
