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I make games and this literally happened to me this morning (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Inspired by true events from this morning

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 months ago

Does the balance at least accumulate until you do hit the threshold, or is the money just gone?

[-] Zoot_@lemm.ee 57 points 3 months ago

It accumulates, so there is no money lost. It does kinda suck though that as you start, even though you can make money and did make a bit you don't get to see it yet

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago

It does make sense from a payment processing standpoint. It doesn't make sense to spend more money on creating the transaction than is actually being sent.

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I used to pay a particular company by purchase order for this exact reason. CC takes 2-3% of the payment, but purchase order - they've got to get themselves into the company system, track the PO, invoice, track the payment...at the time, a common estimate was $50 to process a PO, and if you're only buying $100 batches, that's a big hit. Did not like that company, but they were the only place to get whatever it was I had to buy.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Sending a simple transaction like this costs a couple cents though, which they could in theory bill to the developer as well. Setting the threshold at 100 is probably more to accrue additional interest on Steams bank accounts.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think in the US I’ve heard ETF/ACH transaction fees are usually around $2.50? It might be possible to have that apply across a batch, though, as in if you submit 10 payments to 10 different people as a single transaction it’s still just $2.50, or 25¢ per person. I’m only getting this from hearing accountants complain at companies I’ve worked with, so I don’t understand the details. But I’ve seen it pretty common with companies doing payouts to want to see a minimum amount before they actually send the payment, otherwise it’s not worth doing.