Vent time:
So my sister's boyfriend's grandmother suddenly passed away. The grandmother cared for several children (not sure if she adopted them or they just lived with her), and she had no money. The family has started a GoFundMe to gather money for her funeral. My sister shared it with the family asking if we could each contribute something. I told her they take a percent so I would rather give directly. Now the rest of my family is asking about these fees so I pulled up their facts section, and sent this this:
Does it cost anything?While it's free to create and share your online fundraising campaign, GoFundMe will deduct a 5% fee from each donation that you receive. Since our fee is deducted automatically, you'll never need to worry about being billed or owing us any money. A small processing fee of about 3% will also be deducted from each donation. Please see Pricing & Fees for more info.
Beware of other services that claim to be 100% Free - they'll actually charge your donors instead.
Can someone explain to me how charging 8% for fees and processing for each donation is not charging donors?!