How much of a cut does PayPal take when you make a donation

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HI , I'm thinking of making a small donation to a freeware developer and I'm wondering how much do these services(paypal,share-it) take from the transaction. Are small donations even worth it? :)
Last edited by maximilians1 on Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:29 am, edited 1 time in total.

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tell you what. you make a donation to me, and I'll tell you how much they kept out of the original amount.


sound fair?

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It is VERY minimal. say if you donated 20$, they would get roughly around 19.12 or so. (it's been a while since I have sold banks) it is really tiny as far as dollar to take out amount....
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very minimal ?? about 1$ on 20$ !! 5 percents of the transaction !!! i don't find it very low....

tought it was free.. but wow! 'll never use it i guess

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maxlef wrote:very minimal ?? about 1$ on 20$ !! 5 percents of the transaction !!! i don't find it very low....

tought it was free.. but wow! 'll never use it i guess
Percentwise it may come out high because there are two fees - a transaction fee and a percentage fee. So for small payments the fee looks steeper. I'm sure the guy would be very happy for the money no matter what.

I use PayPal all the time and compared to credit card processing it is very cheap.
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I've wondered about this too.

This $1 fee, is it for a Paypal donation paid with Visa? Or does Paypal charge extra if you use a credit card?

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