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Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're selling physical goods (e.g. Amazon or eBay)

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the clarification, as I said, there are exceptions which are few and far between for the rule, with this being a huge carveout I missed - selling physical goods is exempt.

But if you want to pay for in-game goods (subscriptions, gems, skins, whatever) or an app outright Apple takes 30%. I know they charge Netflix the 30% for their subscriptions, but wonder about e.g. tickets/passes for transit.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, tickets and passes for transit or events are exempt (I know it because I work in the industry). Unless they're tickets for digital events (such as remote workshops), in that case you should pay the 30% fee.