You could put money into your PayPal account from your bank and use that to pay the guy in Germany.

Yes, John, I saw the line about offering a discount for paying with my preferred method. Which means I have to do some extra fiddling around to do it and I wouldn't be surprised if there are Overlords from eBay Overseeing that part of it also, ready to "tsk tsk" if something isn't stated correctly.

You know WHO got the lines put in the law saying you can't penalize blah blah blah--the credit card companies.

SRS