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As a big user of Gumroad for eBooks and subscriptions this will really hurt our business. The timing couldn’t have been worse in this economy.

I don’t mind paying more, but this is 3x. It incentivises customers to move SaaS subscriptions off the platform.

The fact that Sahil thinks this is fair game makes me worry he’ll get overconfident and increase it further to 20% at a moment’s notice. What can he do to restore credibility after this move?

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You should check out prodbump.com, they only charge 1% (plus stripe fees). Seems like they have a pretty clean interface.

Apples to oranges. Prodbump is not merchant of record.

If you want to compare apples to apples, you should take a look at Getrevin.

I didn't know Getrevin, but it's possibly out of scope for the average Gumroad creator. I mean, they charge $799 per month (according to them, they're competitive if you have a monthly volume of 150K)

There's plenty of MoRs out there: FastSpring, Paddle, Lemonsqueezy, and I'm sure the ones that I don't know will flood Twitter in the next days :-)

Wow. What a jump. I swear last time I checked, maybe few weeks ago, they were charging flat 1% plus Stripe fee.

Looks like it’s not only Gumroad rising prices.

I am building a list of alternatives that handle VAT: https://nts.strzibny.name/gumroad-alternatives-eu-uk-vat/

Turns out this poor communication from Gumroad actually means a 13+% fee since the Stripe fee is no longer included in what Gumroad take.

So 10% + 2.9% + 50c?

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