[HN Gopher] Gumroad Increases Fee to 10%
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       Gumroad Increases Fee to 10%
        
       Author : alexellisuk
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-12-17 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | alexellisuk wrote:
       | As a big user of Gumroad for eBooks and subscriptions this will
       | really hurt our business. The timing couldn't have been worse in
       | this economy.
       | 
       | I don't mind paying more, but this is 3x. It incentivises
       | customers to move SaaS subscriptions off the platform.
       | 
       | The fact that Sahil thinks this is fair game makes me worry he'll
       | get overconfident and increase it further to 20% at a moment's
       | notice. What can he do to restore credibility after this move?
        
         | monological wrote:
         | You should check out prodbump.com, they only charge 1% (plus
         | stripe fees). Seems like they have a pretty clean interface.
        
           | tut-urut-utut wrote:
           | Apples to oranges. Prodbump is not merchant of record.
           | 
           | If you want to compare apples to apples, you should take a
           | look at Getrevin.
        
             | unD wrote:
             | I didn't know Getrevin, but it's possibly out of scope for
             | the average Gumroad creator. I mean, they charge $799 per
             | month (according to them, they're competitive if you have a
             | monthly volume of 150K)
             | 
             | There's plenty of MoRs out there: FastSpring, Paddle,
             | Lemonsqueezy, and I'm sure the ones that I don't know will
             | flood Twitter in the next days :-)
        
       | tdeck wrote:
       | Patreon increased their fee a few years back while providing the
       | same service. I guess Gumroad's leadership saw that strategy play
       | out fine and decided to copy it.
        
       | photoGrant wrote:
       | Whoah as if the move alone doesn't dis-incentivize loyalty to the
       | platform, now the level playing field means it's just as wise to
       | spread your product over multiple shell accounts and now the
       | market looks flooded but it's just as dying as before the money
       | grab?
        
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