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PayPal and greedy government

I know you guys are just here for porn and such, but just recently my country has forced some policies that affect that.

I recently went to pay an artist for a commission via PayPal but I thankfully noticed the absolutely ludicrous fee for doing so before I sent it. Upon calling them I was told that the Australian government has forced a $5 flat fee before whatever they charge for the transaction. For really big transactions that’s all fine and dandy but for a $20 piece of art it’s fairly unreasonable. From what they were saying, this will affect all Australia transactions being sent outside the country.

You won’t see it because sending money to artists defualts to goods and services which places the fees on them. This will obviously results in underpaying if you don’t know and isn’t fair on anyone so to avoid that I’m making this post. I don’t believe that it affects sending money that is in your PayPal balance so that’s a possible, and very slow work-arround.

Due to all of the above I am expanding my payment platforms to include Skrill. I urge all commissioners and artist to find alternative payment platforms so people aren’t getting unfairly taxed. All because the government is greedy and local businesses complain that they lose buisness to online stores despite not offering the items people want half the time and also not even trying to be competitive.

Hopefully wall of text will help avoid this causing problems before they begin and I appreciate your time reading this. Please share this arround so people know what’s going on.