luimi
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Leaving Pixiv Fanbox. Follow me on Patreon! ( ۶´˘`)۶
🕑 Added 2022-06-14 14:17:29 +0000 UTChttps://www.patreon.com/luimiart
tl;dr
PayPal no longer works in my country. So I cant use Fanbox currently, and dont have confidence that I can get money at a later date, so I'm only going to be using Patreon for now.
PayPal stopped working in my country 4 months ago. I wanted to just keep money here and maybe payout later when PayPal works again, but found out that funds have 6 month expiration period on Fanbox.
I wrote Fanbox support, but only got the usual response that Japanese bank account or PayPal are the options for paying out.
For now it looks like I'm not gonna get that money, supporters not gonna get that money back, it will just "expire"
On Fanbox help page it says "we may at our own discretion approve a payout of expired earnings if you appeal with the necessary terms". so maaaybe I'll be able to get it if PayPal works again in the future? If Fanbox decides to give it to me?
But so far there's no dialog between me and Fanbox.
Throughout all this, unlike Fanbox, Patreon sent me countless emails reassuring me that they are keeping their eye on the situation, working on alternative methods to payout if needed, they were there to help. Fanbox didnt say anything, and doesnt seem to care.
So I cant use Fanbox currently, and dont have confidence that I can get money at a later date, so I'm only going to be using Patreon for now.
Comments
KittyOnDuty
will sub on patreon once i can get moneis hopefully all artists affected can move to other sites ;w;
いりゅーしん28
Very sad. But I think it is a good decision. Leaders who inhibit the activities of creators should continue to be bitten by Lucifer instead of Brutus.
✨d(´꒳` )
Allilover
I've also stopped my sub to your Fanbox and restarted a new sub over on Patreon. :)
d(´▽` )
thank you (´▽`ʃ💖ƪ)
moved to pthh.fanbox.cc
We don't know each other, but I'd be fine doing that for you if you don't find anyone else. Hopefully you won't need it though!
N-chan
I pledged over on Patreon just to be safe.
Yeah Patreon will take like 30% with all the vats. I'll maybe wait a bit, see if I can maybe payout eventually, and worst case I'll ask someone to do it this way.
moved to pthh.fanbox.cc
The only downside of giving it back through patreon is that they would take a cut of it :/
Thats an option. That person could actually send me the money through Patreon right away. Just gotta find someone I can trust with that ƪ(´･ω･`)
Noce
Sorry to hear that Luimi hope you can work something out
uriel81
Really sad to hear that fanbox doesn't really help with this problem.
moved to pthh.fanbox.cc
Just a shot in the dark, but you could always request a payout on somebody else's paypal account just to be safe. Then later (who knows when..) that person can give you everything back?
