Hi there!

Well, after I finish the current story I'm working on, I'm planning on advertising my writing service online, somewhere (maybe Ebay, if I can figure out how to catagorize it -- see New: life 4 CapriUni, & item in Auction for the backstory).*

As there is a good chance that I'll be writing for people outside the States, I'm considering signing up for PayPal, to avoid the hassles of international money exchange, and to make it easier for my clients to pay me. Plus, if I can figure out the wording, I may want to put my service up on e-bay, and PayPal seems to be becoming the norm in terms of payment for that.

However, I find the (last time I looked into it, which was some time ago, frankly) 40-odd pages of small print a little forbidding, to say the least.

So I'm asking into the open ether of the Web: is it worth it? Do I really risk losing my life savings, or getting ripped off through hidden charges and costs? And if there are hidden charges, to whom would I be paying that money? Etc., etc.

Thank you all, ever so much for your input.

*Yes, I will be putting this in the Mudcat auction again ... someday.