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displacedtexan

(15,695 posts)
8. Etsy charges a 5% processing fee on each item someone sells.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 08:54 PM
Sep 2020

It costs a fortune to host a nonprofit site like ActBlue, and you can bet if it had ever misused a single penny, Republicans would've screamed bloody murder.
The optional tip Helps keep the site live.
Here's the Open Secrets data: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00401224

Also, there's this: Thousands of campaigns and organizations rely on our fundraising tools, which they use for no charge. We pass along a 3.95% processing fee on contributions to the groups using our platform. ActBlue does not make money off of donations. Completing a contribution involves costs related to processing your credit card. We’re legally required to pass along processing costs to the campaign so that we do not make in-kind contributions to them.
https://support.actblue.com/donors/about-actblue/what-are-actblue-tips-for/

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