[IMPORTANT] A patron who probably just stopped being a patron
Added 2017-09-02 19:35:39 +0000 UTCHi.
Today, at 12 AM, one patron decided to support me. That was cool and I wanted to send him a note which I would appreciate him.
However, when I decided to do that (much later), he was no longer a support of my work. He supports other artists, but apparently he decided to pledge 5$ and, hours or minutes later, pooofff, gone. No longer a support.
Because of that, I sent him a quick email, but I don't think that would solve anything.
Don't hold me to this, but I think he pledged 5$ so he could get access to some content and then he stopped being my patron. I don't come up with another possibility.
I'm not sure if this is going to be a thing, but, after some shit I was dealing with, this is the kind of moment I want the least. This is not an unique situation and I've already read something similar to this:
http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/826755.html
If you have an idea of how to report this or where I should report (or another solution), please let me know.
Love,
RT
Comments
it doesn't need reporting, the patron didn't do anything that breaks any sort of terms or conditions. They exchanged 5 dollars for access to everything you have posted and then removed their pledge so they're not charged again next month. It's actually extremely common. A lot of artists are getting in the habit of just making art packs that they e-mail out to everyone at the end of each pay period as a work-around for this, but the downside there is that an artist's archive is no longer readily available to their patrons. The best you can do is look at it from a different perspective: someone just payed you 5 dollars for your art and then went on their merry way, sort of like selling a book of your work to someone at your art booth. Maybe you can find another way to incentivise patrons to continue to support your work each month? I feel like you already do a lot and you're a really good patreon creator, but I guess maybe if you think of something else to add then it might prevent that from happening again. sorry if that's not much help
Josh
2017-09-03 07:33:18 +0000 UTC
