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by syshum 3096 days ago
Value to who? I already laid out the value to the Subscriber was I unclear?

It is more convenient for the individual subscriber to have 1 Patreon account to support many people, than for them to have many many accounts with many individuals sites. Where they have to manage their CC info, update expiration dates, etc

Even with something like PayPal ask anyone that has ever done Reoccurring translations on PayPal and they will tell you what a nightmare it is to get people to update their CC Info

Any time you can lesson the pain it takes for someone to give you money the better

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I generally despise the concept of ~infinity recurring payments, I want giving someone money to be an active thought.

>Any time you can lesson the pain it takes for someone to give you money the better

I see Patreons base model as to get people to sign up and forget about it. Maybe I'm a bit cynical, but it's just.. ick.

>>I generally despise the concept of ~infinity recurring payments, I want giving someone money to be an active thought.

And I generally despise the concept of having to actively think about things like this, I want to sign up for it and forget about it

I also sign up for automatic bill pay, and put most of my bills on a reoccurring schedule when ever possible.