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Why are payment processor fees 3-6%? The court should investigate that too, it can't cost more than a few cents to process that charge.


The court is going to be pretty busy with all these investigations going on!


EU courts did cap payment processor fees, so yeah that is intended. We can't have companies bottleneck and take excessive fees and thus stifle progress, when a company gets too powerful the government has to step in.


I'll never say no to properly auditing our systems. So sure.

But I also recognize that few out there are pressing strong opposition to the idea of paying 3% for someone else to manage their financial transactions, or to host their own business. If I make a million dollars, paying 50k to Patreon or Kickstarter for hosting the service seems to make sense in my mind




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