INTERNATIONAL PATRONS ALERT
As many of you are probably aware, Fiend and I have had trouble shipping Patreon rewards to those who live outside of the United States. Fiend sent me this message with a possible solution:
For international patreons I think we may have to start shipping them out in bundles yearly to cut down costs. I was trying to send them as mail in the postage, since that's much cheaper, however without the tracking it seems it's much easier for them to get lost and never found. So to avoid it in the future we'll have to use regular labels, only issue is those are $5 per person instead of the like few cents an international stamp costs. What are your thoughts?
The other option is to charge international patrons extra, individually. Which would cost me and Fiend more time, but might be the best option here.
Comments (18)
I'm good with yearly.
I’m good with yearly. It actually makes more sense
I'd be totally fine with yearly or even an option for digital only goodies. I'm here because I want to support your work
Totally fine with yearly, it's something I suggested to Fiend in the feedback form recently
Yearly would be fine. But maybe bi-annually/6 monthly would be good too?
Happy with yearly or whatever works.
You could send it as a digital download or give an option for bookmark instead of sticker and send as pdf. For Dragon and higher a 1 off charge for a bundle to cover international shipping is totally fine. I'm sure most subscribers who are at those levels would gladly pay shipping costs.
Yearly is fine with me!
From the UK here completely happy with yearly with a small up charge if needed
That's fine for me!
A once a year $5 charge is probably my preference, or could you pick someone in an area who could receive a large parcel with the individual ones packaged up inside, and then they go to the post office in that country and post them out?
Yearly is fine for me (Canada). I'd prefer not to increase the amount monthly at this time.
I think yearly is better but maybe something like 2 categories per tier are possible. One for yearly shipping and one with a higher cost and monthly shipping
I am happy with a yearly delivery
To be honest. I don't need the reward packages. I'm here for your content and to support you. And If you need to higher the costs it would be ok for me! (Greetings from Germany)
Is the extra charge monthly? Or would it be extra that one te of year when the packages would be shipped out?
If we do it yearly, then no extra charge--I'll just bite that bullet. If we keep up the monthly pace, then we'd have to charge extra.
How much extra would you be thinking of charging? I'm happy with the yearly if it means my parcel won't get lost.