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Hauru
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Hauru wrote:
art commissions or know a thing or two i have a question: what do you use to take your payment?

Back when i was younger i used paypal to take commission payment but i absolutely hated that my real name was shown also that paypal likes to withold money. I read to use a business account but guess what i dont have a business and i fear they would lock my account if i were to do that just to hide my name.

Do yall know any other services that are more private regarding my information?

Novocaine
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novocaine wrote:
my name isn't shown and i use a random adress for my paypal. but no clue about other services

Hauru
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Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:
my name isn't shown and i use a random adress for my paypal. but no clue about other services

but do you not have to prove its you to use a paypal account? do you use a business or personal account?

Novocaine
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novocaine wrote:

Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:
my name isn't shown and i use a random adress for my paypal. but no clue about other services

but do you not have to prove its you to use a paypal account? do you use a business or personal account?

personal account. my name is random letters and my address is a random store in amsterdam

Hauru
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Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:

Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:
my name isn't shown and i use a random adress for my paypal. but no clue about other services

but do you not have to prove its you to use a paypal account? do you use a business or personal account?

personal account. my name is random letters and my address is a random store in amsterdam

ohhh but i fear they will lock it once they find out its not your real information its too risky for me D:

Hauru
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Hauru wrote:
paypal sucks but other services dont really provide any privacy protection either tbh most of the apps are not even available in europe sad

Novocaine
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novocaine wrote:

Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:

Hauru wrote:
but do you not have to prove its you to use a paypal account? do you use a business or personal account?

personal account. my name is random letters and my address is a random store in amsterdam

ohhh but i fear they will lock it once they find out its not your real information its too risky for me D:

i doubt it, it has been like this for 7 years i think but i understand your fears

Hauru
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Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:

Hauru wrote:

novocaine wrote:
personal account. my name is random letters and my address is a random store in amsterdam

ohhh but i fear they will lock it once they find out its not your real information its too risky for me D:

i doubt it, it has been like this for 7 years i think but i understand your fears

yea idk for some people it works for some it dont the same goes for like business accounts. I guess it only makes sense if its actually your part/full time job but its so weird commissioning someone and then seeing their full legal name lmfao

Private
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devilcake wrote:
I use PayPal with a business account without a real business and have never had any issues cause you don’t actually have to input any business info

i know some people use kofi, and using dedicated commission sites like vgen and commishes allow you to make sales directly through the site I think but I’ve never made a sell on there (n I haven’t had the energy to apply for a vgen acc yet)

Hauru
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Hauru wrote:

devilcake wrote:
I use PayPal with a business account without a real business and have never had any issues cause you don’t actually have to input any business info

i know some people use kofi, and using dedicated commission sites like vgen and commishes allow you to make sales directly through the site I think but I’ve never made a sell on there (n I haven’t had the energy to apply for a vgen acc yet)

did you turn your normal personal account into a business account or did you create a separate paypal account for commissions? Also do you make regular commissions so lets say at least once a month or just occasionally when you feel like it cause i think that might influence it? ive been setting up my vgen account and i saw that you can make payments directly through the site itself but it uses stripe and i havent used it yet nor am i really sure what its about in terms of protection etc

Private
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devilcake wrote:

Hauru wrote:

devilcake wrote:
I use PayPal with a business account without a real business and have never had any issues cause you don’t actually have to input any business info

i know some people use kofi, and using dedicated commission sites like vgen and commishes allow you to make sales directly through the site I think but I’ve never made a sell on there (n I haven’t had the energy to apply for a vgen acc yet)

did you turn your normal personal account into a business account or did you create a separate paypal account for commissions? Also do you make regular commissions so lets say at least once a month or just occasionally when you feel like it cause i think that might influence it? ive been setting up my vgen account and i saw that you can make payments directly through the site itself but it uses stripe and i havent used it yet nor am i really sure what its about in terms of protection etc

I honestly don’t remember what I did cause it’s been so long but I think I turned a regular into a business account and then attached a second email to it
I have some months that go dry but I’d say I’ve had money coming in regularly for the past couple of years through es and commissions, a couple of large payments from es but mostly below 350 euros monthly, so I think even if it’s regular it might not be enough money to be cause to set anything off in PayPal’s systems

never used stripe with anything so I can’t speak on that

Hauru
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Hauru wrote:

devilcake wrote:

Hauru wrote:

devilcake wrote:
I use PayPal with a business account without a real business and have never had any issues cause you don’t actually have to input any business info

i know some people use kofi, and using dedicated commission sites like vgen and commishes allow you to make sales directly through the site I think but I’ve never made a sell on there (n I haven’t had the energy to apply for a vgen acc yet)

did you turn your normal personal account into a business account or did you create a separate paypal account for commissions? Also do you make regular commissions so lets say at least once a month or just occasionally when you feel like it cause i think that might influence it? ive been setting up my vgen account and i saw that you can make payments directly through the site itself but it uses stripe and i havent used it yet nor am i really sure what its about in terms of protection etc

I honestly don’t remember what I did cause it’s been so long but I think I turned a regular into a business account and then attached a second email to it
I have some months that go dry but I’d say I’ve had money coming in regularly for the past couple of years through es and commissions, a couple of large payments from es but mostly below 350 euros monthly, so I think even if it’s regular it might not be enough money to be cause to set anything off in PayPal’s systems

never used stripe with anything so I can’t speak on that

ohh yea okay hmmm well idk i just feel like there will be months were i wont get any money into it at all so not sure if it would be beneficial to me maawnn why is it so hard

Joob
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joob wrote:
ive never used my real name on paypal

Chat0yant
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Chat0yant wrote:
i was reading terms on paypal recently and they said once you change your personal to a business you can't really change it back so if you want have both a personal and business you should make a separate business one (or make a new personal one). I'm sure you can double check with the q/a or a chat w/ support. I had to talk to support recently and they were chill.