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Originally Posted by Adoby
PayPal charges less for transactions that involves donations to nonprofit charities and the like. They have to be able to prove that status in their own country. Tax exemption and so on.
I believe it would be impossible for Kovid to demonstrate this. That's why he's no longer allowed to accept "donations" via PayPal. But he can accept "support", meaning that PayPal can take a slightly larger cut of the transactions.
In effect, by making restrictions for donations, PayPal increase their profit. Nothing wrong with that. Profit is nice. If we don't like it, we can decide not to use PayPal. Unfortunately there is no good alternative.
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Lower rates, in the USA at least, only apply to registered 501(c)(3) charities.
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donations Other non-profits pay the standard rates. Why is Kovid Goyal not an "other" non-profit? After all, he is not selling Calibre. And while there is nothing wrong with making a profit, that is not the same as being required by law to follow a certain course of action. And still there has been no citation to any applicable law or regulation by anybody, PayPal included. So why is everybody so eager to make excuses for a multinational financial company over a lone software developer?