I guess you didn’t read my original post?
Free time is extremely precious to me. There is no next day to wait for, Not being available today is like booking a vacation, only to be told that the hotel will be available a week after you arrive, after you’ve already gone back.
What I, as a customer, am buying from EPIC is the access to content. They choose to give creators money to provide content to them, but they themselves provide the access.
When I, as a customer, don’t get the access, I expect EPIC to make me whole. Whatever business relationship EPIC chooses to have with creators, is none of my business.
Btw: 45 days? Most big box stores don’t pay their suppliers until 90 days after sale (not delivery) – because the stores, in turn, don’t get paid by the credit card companies until 90 days after customer purchase settlement. So 45 days sounds unsafe on behalf of EPIC. Chargebacks can come way after that.
And, yes, this means that the seller of silverware shipping stuff to Target to be sold, does so without immediate payment. In fact, Target probably charges them a slotting fee to put them on shelves at all.
Life in retail is absolutely brutal on the sellers. Because the customer reaaly shouldn’t have to pay if they don;t get what they pay for. As a customer, I’m OK with this!