Hey guys,
After reading some of the comments here, I think I feel like replying. I am not directing this at any of you individually, I am talking in generalities.
Someone asked "who uses money orders in this day and age?" I will tell you who. Someone who is tired of losing as much as $30 in fees every time I want to sell something. If this recession has taught me anything it's that money should not be taken for granted. I am in between jobs right now, and every dollar I can save goes toward keeping me in this hobby.
Not only that, but how many of you have been screwed by someone trying to scam you using Paypal? Ever shipped an item with full insurance and had the buyer claim the item was damaged and that you needed to give them a discount, even though the item was insured? Ever had someone complain about shipping charges after they get the item when they knew in advance shipping would cost a certain amount? Ever had someone overseas beg you to ship an item they just had to have, only to turn around and file a paypal claim for some bogus crap and get a full refund from paypal?
I have. All of these things happened to me in the few years I used paypal. Why should I have to take the risk on something as rare and irreplaceable as Rainman figure sets?
I refuse to have a paypal account. I think they suck in the worst way, and I will not give them one more cent than I absolutely have to. I have had it. Done for good. Paypal sucks, and you can live without it. It is possible to transact business online without using it.
I am to the point now where there are several custom figure artists who only accept paypal and I don't know if I will be able to buy as many custom head sculpts as I used to. Now, I am grudgingly accepting paypal payments for my custom figure clothes that I am making. But I use a third party merchant processor without actually having a paypal account myself. And so many people complained about me not offering paypal that I finally folded and got the merchant account, but in the future it will add about $3-$5 to the cost of every item I sell.
I hope this makes sense. I am sorry I couldn't be more flexible for you overseas buyers. I think everyone in this thread who said they had a problem dealing with me is outside of the United States. I specifically said in my thread that I don't do business outside of the U.S. and you still contacted me. Now it sounds like your frustrated that I couldn't sell to you.
I am more than willing to try to be flexible on a $45 item. When it comes to a $500 Rainman figure, frankly, I don't feel like taking any risks.
your prices were amazing. Shocked to see them that low, cool thing to do
