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Little bit of housekeeping: euros vs dollars
🕑 Added 2025-07-01 17:35:43 +0000 UTCThis is a post I wasn't hoping to make but I kinda figured it was unavoidable, and indeed here we are. I basically wanna know what you guys think about this in order to help me make a decision.
The central question:
Are you terribly attached to what kind of currency I run my Patreon page in?
I've always run it in USD because I figured that's just what's easiest. It's an international standard and everyone roughly understands the value of a dollar relative to even their own currency if they use a different one.
But the reality is that the Euro vs Dollar exchange rate is getting pretty bad. I don't wanna get into the politics of it because there's nothing we could say about it here that would make the slightest bit of difference or have the slightest bit of influence. And I've always kept politics off this page anyway. The current exchange rate is 84 eurocents for a dollar. I've always lived with a reality of it being 90-95 cents and that was just fine, and usually with the election of a new president there'd even be a little bit of a boom which was good for me.
Currently there is no boom. And I can't get around the fact that even though I earn my income in dollars, I spend it in euros. Losing 15% of my earnings, or more (I have a feeling it's gonna be below 80 cents relatively soon) to the exchange rate is quite frankly a massive blow.
I'm not swapping just yet. But if it falls below 80 cents I'm not sure I have a choice. Does it matter to you guys what currency it is? Would anyone unsub just because I switched from one to the other? I imagine the new price point would be the main point of contention, but right now I'm not even sure if the actual price point would change because you can't change prices on a tier with active subscribers in it.
There's a lot of unknowns at this point but I just wanted to know how you guys felt about it on a user experience level.
Let me know!
Comments
unicorn
The conversion rate from AU$ currency to $US is bad enough. Converting to Euro is worse, and makes the cost of subscribing significantly more expensive.
Dangerous Lines
I’m just so amazed you can make a living at this! Charge what you need to to live in which ever currency.
Enferno8
Is simply increasing prices by 20% a viable option if you want to stay with usd? I personally don't care.
Capitan0
I don’t care
