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Is there a way to pay for something that is less than a dollar?

A topic by HickorySmokedSausage created Feb 10, 2022 Views: 465 Replies: 3
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There are games on sale, some for literally less than 10 cents, but trying to buy them informs me that I have to spend at least 100 cents per transaction. I don’t see a cart feature where I can just make up the amount by selecting several titles. Is there a way I can buy 7 ten cent games without spending 7 dollars? Maybe a digital wallet like Steam or GOG? Thank you.

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Maybe you didn't know it, but about 55 cents of the price goes to the payment processor.

Allowing people to have a digital wallet would cut down on the payment to payment processors allowing creators to get a bigger share of the revenue.

First payment processor takes about 50 cents base price, followed by about 3% on top of that. After that itch usually gets 10% of the gross revenue and the rest is given to the creators.

I just checked and PayPal takes 49 cents and 3.49%.  The 3.49% isn't bad but the 49 cents base price is what is killing revenues for cheap games.

Splitting the base cost of a transaction across multiple purchases would be great.

So there isn’t any way? I’m new here so I thought someone would know how to buy things in bulk or something. I already knew about the processor. That begs the question as to why under a dollar discounts even exist on here, if you absolutely have to pay at 100 cents of currency per transaction, or why 1 dollar games even get discounted at all. 

I wonder if it has anything to do with accounting.

Say you buy a game from developer A for 70 cents, and a game from B for 30 cents. How is the transaction cost going to be split?

Equal? Proportional?