There’s been a lot of posts going around lately about Paypal and their policy on fees, and I’ve seen a lot of people suggesting you move to invoices. What you might not realise unless you have a closer look at these payments once you receive them, is that Paypal is expecting you to ship an item. This remains the same regardless of whether you use the default form, the ‘services’ form and charge by the hour, and whether you put 0.00 in the postage section.
After a call to customer service this morning, I have confirmed there is actually no option on invoices for a seller to indicate that postage is not required if you are invoicing from the main paypal website (ie. you don’t do paypal checkout through your website, there may be a work around if you have a purchase button on your website, which isn’t entirely practical for commissions as prices can often vary and most do payments through the site directly). This means that if you don’t provide shipping / tracking information on that payment, Paypal may freeze the funds and/or your account.
Apparently the way to avoid this is to include in the notes section of the invoice that the invoice is for goods and services, and that no shipping is required.
They also said that the buyer should indicate in the notes when they pay that they have received the goods/service, however this is going to cause issues with commissions as most are either paid upfront or partway through.
If anyone has any further solution to this, reblog and or message me, but otherwise this has been a PSA about Paypal invoicing. Seller beware.
Guys the struggle is real and I am learning this now. Make sure you write that your goods are digital in your invoices so your account does not freeze.
The way I manage my invoices isn’t just to specify under the note,
But also to choose this option when the payment has been sent and the commission has been completed
So it can be counted as complete.
Seriously guys spread this, we all know invoices are safer but honestly I didn’t know about this really important step. This needs more notes
This Sunday, my FIRST Mother’s Day, a racist white woman with a large following sent her violently misogynoiristic followers to harass me, my channel, and any one who agrees that black women should be paid for labor.
Since then, I’ve been trolled NONSTOP! They are harassing me on each and every one of my social media accounts. Some have even turned to sending me hate mail through email…E M A I L.
Here is just a glimpse of what they have been saying to me:
Imagine this, but over the span of 5 days. They’re…barbaric.
Normally, I wouldn’t care about trolls because they’re obviously fans, but they’ve banded together and made it so that every video has far more dislikes than likes. Even my video ❤️ Hey Black Girl ❤️ where I am simply affirming black women with a poem I wrote saying how we are valid regardless of what society tells us.
I need your help!
If you have time, please go over to my channel and like any or all of my videos to help balance out the ratings. Even if you only like one of them, it still counts!
Before anyone mentions this, yes I’ve blacklisted most slurs and buzzwords – it has not helped. Also, I don’t want to disable the comments because the first time I did that, I couldn’t check my notifications on any of my SM for weeks.
Here a complete list of my videos to make it easier for you:
If you were worried, I’m not going to stop producing content for us. All we have is each other – obviously – so I’ll never stop fighting misogynoir. Especially not because of some incestial Beckys and Toms. LMAO
i’m pretty sure this would be most effective in naval combat, to hull big ships. a regular arrow will kill someone plenty dead in small skirmishes. a regular cannon ball, discharged over a battlefield, is fired at a nearly horizontal angle, so it takes out as long a line of combatants as possible while skipping along the ground, and would probably do just as much damage along that line as this device, rather than going off on the first dude it hit and taking out just one ring, while whatever load of rock and rubble a catapault would dump onto a battlefield would take out a much wider blast radius than just 10 feet. but a 10-foot diameter scoop taken out of the hull of a ship is a pretty big deal in any universe.
if you stuck with arrows to deploy this device, it also wouldn’t be anywhere near as heavy as the 12000 pound cannons required to fire a six pound cannonball, and there’d be no dangerous recoil or risk of explosion on the firing ship. but a professional archer with a longbow’s range would only be about 400 yards (though very accurate) while a six-pounder could go up to 1500 yards (though less accurate). so it’s a toss up which method would be better, unless you’re working in a world without gunpowder, in which case your ships would be closing in much more closely to exchange crossbow/arrow fire, throw flaming crap, or try to ram and board, and you’d do just fine with tension-launched rift devices.
come to think of it, were these things to be invented in a time before gunpowder, the ensuing arms race would be all about range, not explosive power or accuracy: whoever could accurately hit the other guy from furthest away would automatically win. we’d be seeing some really interesting sea-trebuchets in a generation…
you could, of course, just manufacture a lot of sea mines, and dump them.
considering how expensive portable holes and bags of holding are to make, i would save this for targets that are essentially immune to regular damage. there are an alarming number of them in the d&d world.
re ships, tbh, in a high-level game, when we did naval warfare the difficulty was keeping any of the ships afloat. for instance, our sorceror pioneered a move we called “fuck these six cannons in particular.”
and then there were the enemies you’d unleash all this firepower on and they’d pretty much laugh it off because they’d layered on 9 kinds of immunities and 20 points of damage reduction. but nobody is immune to a bag of holding implosion.
In a world where these things somehow catch on (disregarding prices for a moment), an interesting complication arises: by the rules as written, this is not an Arrow of Total Destruction. It’s an Arrow of Greater Banishment. See, when it says it opens up a rift to the Astral Plane and sucks everything through within 10 feet, it’s not being metaphorical. Everyone caught wholly in the blast radius of one of these arrows doesn’t die, they’re just sucked into the Astral Plane, which is hard to leave but other than that is actually a relatively hospitable place to live compared to most D&D planes of existence: a vast, silvery sphere of endless sky, with subjective gravity (”down” is where you want it to be) and total freedom from the ravages of time (age, hunger, and thirst need not apply).
A battlefield where these are used extensively leaves a lot of confused immortal refugees on both sides just hanging out in the corresponding Astral location, possibly with no real reason to continue the fight. A war where these are used extensively leaves a whole multicultural population stranded there.
aaaaand you just gave someone their campaign setting. 😀
