Pretty much every merchant includes their overheads in the price of things you buy. A store has to pay rent, heating, lighting, AC, wages, taxes and quite a few other things. Those are all factored into the base cost of anything you buy apart from loss leaders (which are deliberately priced at a loss to attract you into the store).
An artist has to pay for materials, electric, their rent, and quite a few other things other than time and equipment, those also get factored into the cost. Paypal is one of those costs that should be factored in, why? Because it's not just convenient for the artist.
If a customer of mine opts not to pay via paypal then they have to go out of their way to send me a check, postal order or a different method of payment and they have to wait for it to clear since I won't start work until it's cleared.
If their Post office is far away from them then after they've factored in gas cost, the cost of their time to fill out and send a cheque/Postal order and the cost of mailing, it probably works out to more than paypal fees could ever be for a transaction.
So yeah, the choice is yours, a slightly higher cost for artwork due to the factoring of overheads including banking costs or getting a discount for other payment methods but having to fork out for gas, fees and spend your own time to send an artist money to work for you?
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Date: 2010-08-16 04:19 pm (UTC)Pretty much every merchant includes their overheads in the price of things you buy. A store has to pay rent, heating, lighting, AC, wages, taxes and quite a few other things. Those are all factored into the base cost of anything you buy apart from loss leaders (which are deliberately priced at a loss to attract you into the store).
An artist has to pay for materials, electric, their rent, and quite a few other things other than time and equipment, those also get factored into the cost. Paypal is one of those costs that should be factored in, why? Because it's not just convenient for the artist.
If a customer of mine opts not to pay via paypal then they have to go out of their way to send me a check, postal order or a different method of payment and they have to wait for it to clear since I won't start work until it's cleared.
If their Post office is far away from them then after they've factored in gas cost, the cost of their time to fill out and send a cheque/Postal order and the cost of mailing, it probably works out to more than paypal fees could ever be for a transaction.
So yeah, the choice is yours, a slightly higher cost for artwork due to the factoring of overheads including banking costs or getting a discount for other payment methods but having to fork out for gas, fees and spend your own time to send an artist money to work for you?