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Last weekend, Gumroad — one of the web’s oldest and most popular platforms for selling digital goods — announced to triple its fee for top creators.

It started with a short email from Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia, in which he stated that he would raise the fee to 10% for all creators using Gumroad.

To understand why this is a huge problem, you have to look at the old pricing structure of Gumroad:

• 9 % fee for earnings between $0 and $1,000
• 7 % fee for earnings between $1,000 to $10,000
• 5 % fee for earnings between $10,000 to $100,000
• 3 % fee for earnings between $100,00 to $1 million
• 2.9 % fee for earnings beyond $1 million

All those tiers included the credit card processing fees, while the new fee of 10% is excluding those processing fees which average around 2–3%.

Until now, as a top-tier creator, you paid only for those fees.

This made Gumroad the cheapest and most competitive platform for selling all kinds of digital goods.

Sahil’s decision changed everything overnight.