If your Patreon payments aren’t going through, or if you’d like to become a patron of my weird little crowd-funded operation here, I’ve put together a list of the different routes through which people can support me besides Patreon, along with the various advantages and disadvantages of each.
(Also if you can’t support my work financially, sharing my stuff around and bringing energy and enthusiasm to things I publish goes a long long way to help here too.)
Pros — It’s an easy way to send a one-off payment. Cons — Although they are not as eye-watering as Patreon, the fees are quite high. PayPal also sometimes likes to pull the plug on people for committing wrongthink.
Pros — The fees are about the same as PayPal and offers us some stability in paying bills, as it is a consistent monthly sum that we can count on. Cons — We can’t set it to pay-as-you-feel pricing; there are only a few different price points to choose from.
Direct bank deposit
Pros — The fees are very low. You can set up a scheduled payment in your bank app that you are completely in control of. Cons — For anyone outside Australia it can be a bit fiddly to work out how to send money overseas.
Pros — The fees are very low, lower even than a direct deposit. Cons — It can be a steep learning curve if you don’t already use crypto.
Other Cryptos Accepted Ethereum address: 0xC0D085df9c21B775932A022AeCf5f8d2AeB029F3 Bitcoin Cash address: qraw0zyvk5pd9nyfcrctz7fxmtpfds5n8gc9jr2hu9
Checks
Send to: Caitlin Johnstone PO Box 378 Mentone, VIC 3194 Australia
To purchase ebooks and PDFs go to Gumroad for whatever-you-reckon’s-a-fair-thing pricing; if you don’t like the other payment methods you can just order a PDF for however much you like.
Pros — Patreon is a monthly subscription that we can budget our lives around. Cons — Apart from the previously mentioned issues, the fees are very high. Approximately 10 percent of each payment goes to bank fees and Patreon’s own fees.
Paypal stole $9354 dollars from Consortium News because it didn't like their politics. Paypal waited until Consortium was having their yearly funding drive so that the account would be nice and fat. There was so much protest that Paypal gave the money back, but I will never use Paypal again and advocate that no one else use Paypal.
Paypal stole $9354 dollars from Consortium News because it didn't like their politics. Paypal waited until Consortium was having their yearly funding drive so that the account would be nice and fat. There was so much protest that Paypal gave the money back, but I will never use Paypal again and advocate that no one else use Paypal.
Can't readers just upgrade to a paid subscription on Substack? That's the simplest.