I had a Patreon account for several months now. I've been slowly been promoting it on my Instagram account for the several months. In July i peaked with 21 patrons following me. But with Patreon, they bill your patrons at 1st day fo each month for the previous month. So you can sign up July 1st, and sit there for 30 days and enjoy your Patreon's hard earned work, and then cancel before August 1st. or cancel your credit card. or change your credit card info.
AND NOT PAY JACK SHIT
I just got my figures for July and get this, 65% of my patrons got their credit cards declined. My count went from 21 to 18 and then finally 13. How is this possible? In the past, i get maybe 1 person declined. but to get this many in one month? i guess more people are figuring out the same shit I'm telling you.
Cancel
Imagine if Netflix billed you after 30 days of watching their movies and tv shows, instead of the 1st day. Imagine if 65% of netflix customers ended up not paying for their service!. Patreon does allow their customers to do a pay per post thing, which fixes this problem. And they say they are beta testing a "Pay Immediately right after you join" which you think should be the norm. but its not. and it's too late. I hope they fix this problem before more artists get less money for their work.
Mean while I'm signing up with Onlyfans.
ps. i submitted many tickets to customer support. unfortuantely they used Zendesk and after receiving the automatically generated email from them saying they got my inquiry and will respond soon, they never did. after several months I managed to contact someone there and he said the problem was zendesk wasn't recognizing my email
I tried resetting my password at https://patreon.zendesk.com but i did not get any emails to confirm my password reset. How can I, when their zendesk wasn't recognizing my emails? Basically its like having a problem with your phone company and the only way is to call them from your phone. Bunch of idiots. Also i did not get any further emails from 6 weeks ago.
AND NOT PAY JACK SHIT
I just got my figures for July and get this, 65% of my patrons got their credit cards declined. My count went from 21 to 18 and then finally 13. How is this possible? In the past, i get maybe 1 person declined. but to get this many in one month? i guess more people are figuring out the same shit I'm telling you.
Cancel
Imagine if Netflix billed you after 30 days of watching their movies and tv shows, instead of the 1st day. Imagine if 65% of netflix customers ended up not paying for their service!. Patreon does allow their customers to do a pay per post thing, which fixes this problem. And they say they are beta testing a "Pay Immediately right after you join" which you think should be the norm. but its not. and it's too late. I hope they fix this problem before more artists get less money for their work.
Mean while I'm signing up with Onlyfans.
ps. i submitted many tickets to customer support. unfortuantely they used Zendesk and after receiving the automatically generated email from them saying they got my inquiry and will respond soon, they never did. after several months I managed to contact someone there and he said the problem was zendesk wasn't recognizing my email
I tried resetting my password at https://patreon.zendesk.com but i did not get any emails to confirm my password reset. How can I, when their zendesk wasn't recognizing my emails? Basically its like having a problem with your phone company and the only way is to call them from your phone. Bunch of idiots. Also i did not get any further emails from 6 weeks ago.