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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’ve had Google charge me $0.01 before for firebase usage.

    They really should have waited until I owed more since that cost them money.

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      1 month ago

      Once a month I’d have to pay a few pennies to Google for our cloud use at a school district I worked for. It always baffled me!

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      1 month ago

      They should almost just make it so the blaze plan of firebase or other cloud services has a $1 non refundable pre-payment so they can just whittle away at the pennies instead of getting charged processing/transaction fees on a $0.01 transaction. Tops up to $1 if it goes to $0

      I think people would pay $1 to enable the paid plans. If you’re going that far, you’re getting $1 of use out of it.

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      1 month ago

      On my personal AWS account, Im paying them 0.17 cents a month.

      I wonder if they pay a fee since it’s hooked into my credit card.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        They’re bigger so it’s hard to know, but it’s usually something like 2.9% + 10c a transaction.

        At their scale though who knows

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            1 month ago

            This might’ve changed but 10 years ago the small shop next to my school said they wouldn’t allow card payments of under 1 EUR because they’d be losing money. In Estonia

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        1 month ago

        0.17 cents

        So is that less than a cent or is it 17 cents? If it’s the former, I don’t think it’s even possible to make a transaction that small.