Buy Me a Coffee is a beautiful way for creators to accept one-time and monthly support from their fans. Without stitching together a bunch of apps like Patreon, Mailchimp, and a donate button — you can accept support, memberships, and build a direct relationship with your fans. Your fans are going to love it.
This is the first platform I received support for my creations. I believe, the idea of a cup of coffee gives people ease on tipping money. Great community and support.
From now on, I told all me members to please stop donating at me via the "Buy Me a Coffee" site; they scammed my money. As you can see, that site is designed for a donation system that created an account to receive donations from random people, and now they will ask me for proof of where I got the donation, etc. like WT! Why did they ask? It's always our privacy who donated to us! and it's not their business since they are deducting our money for fees!
Kofi, Cashapp, Crypto are all better than this.
A sketchy company with poor customer service (based in the Phillipines).
As poor as the alternatives are I can't say that BuyMeACoffee is any better.
They are just as unaccountable as those other companies and frankly even worse.
Your money might get caught in limbo or perhaps things will work perfectly.
Payments to some creators work and some creators don't. All with no explanation, despite weeks of back and forth with customer service (text-based in the Philippines).
I hope that some ambitious entrepreneur comes out with alternative to PayPal and the rest of the hopelessly unaccountable 100% remote companies like this.
I specifically made an account just so I can leave a review for this GARBAGE SCAMMING PLATFORM.
Imagine this scenario:
You made a buymeacoffee account as an alternative to an online store so you can sell products. You sell the products to your customers but you are unable to withdraw your money and no reason is given to you. You email them and wait for 2 weeks. You receive a reply that you are unable to withdraw your money, but you can always refund them to your customers. Still no information is given to you, even though you provided all the necessary proof and screenshots. You send another email - you wait another 2 weeks for another pointless reply that does not help you at all. And they keep claiming your money is "not being held" because you can always send them back to your customers. You are now dying of starvation because you chose buyMeAcoffee instead of using PayPal or Patreon.
Do you buy your food at the supermarket and get your money refunded?
Pretty good tool if you want to receive tips or initiate a conversation. If your purpose is limited to such a use case, BMC will serve the purpose. If you want more, you will have to hunt for more comprehensive alternatives.
