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Don't know if this is still an issue, but if any potential buyers are okay with paying a bit extra, here's how you can ensure you send at least X amount to @melancholy-marionette. First, convert how much you want to pay in GBP into your native currency. Right now, the exchange rate is 1 GBP = 1.34 USD so if I want to pay 5 GBP, I have to pay $6.70 USD.

To cover the 30% tax cut, remember that 100%-30% is 70%. You will want to divide the payment amount by .7 or multiply by ~1.43 (NOT 1.3). So if I divide 6.70 by .7, I get ~9.57.

So to pay @melancholy-marionette 5 GBP, I'll need to send $9.57 (9.58 to be safe).

EDIT: I forgot about the PayPal fee. So that's 3.5% plus .39 GBP.

So, divide 9.58 (which I already sent) by (1-.035) and we get ~9.93 USD. Converting .39 GBP to USD comes out to ~$0.52 USD. So I should have sent $10.45. This doesn't account for the itch.io fee which varies by the developer so I'm not even going to try.

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Sorry for my super slow reply >.< I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to type that up :3 It is still indeed an issue, and it looks like it's one I'll likely never be able to do anything about, haha. 

Really, itch should have an option that shows customers and supporters how much the dev is actually getting, because it does kinda suck if someone thinks they're sending X amount of money to support a dev, only for the dev to only receive a fraction of what's actually being sent >.<

And also, thank you so much for the support :3