![]() ![]() There is no reason that us, the backers, should be hit with those fees, because it will just discourage future backing of foreign projects. They should be charging the customers based on their country of origin, and paying out the creators in their native dollar. Kickstarter should have figured out a way around the FTFs.And if they do have that warning, then it needs to be bigger, because I didn’t see it. Please note that you may have a different platform fee if agreed upon by you and. For them Kickstarter percentage charged would be a larger cut of 5 but with the fee being lower at just 0.05 cents per pledge Unlike Kickstarter, the Indiegogo percentage of the processing fee is 3+0.30 per pledge. If you ran your first campaign on another platform before joining our InDemand program, your platform fee is 8. Also, Kickstarter offers discounts in case of micro-pledges under 10, such as stickers or T-shirts. ![]() If you are in our InDemand program and ran your campaign on Indiegogo, your platform fee remains 5. Kickstarter should have a nice big warning when you buy from foreign countries that you are going to likely be charged an FTF. Learn about processing fees for other currencies.Once the campaign closed and I got charged, I saw that I got hit with a Foreign Transaction Fee (FTF), for having my card charged in China. Last week I came across an item that I thought “hey, that’d be useful”, and when I went to look at the Reward Tiers, I saw that it was all in HKD (Hong Kong Dollar), but being the nice people they are, Kickstarter had a translation right under it in how much it would cost me in USD$. It’s never anything I need…because if I “needed it” I would buy it, and not put money down for an item I’ll get months/years later. Every once in a while I see something on Kickstarter that I think I want. ![]()
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