PayPal is the 800 pound gorilla, and you're stuck using it if you want much traffic at eBay. They're a territorial pain in the ass. I had a "free" PayPal account, no fees to use it, that is, until someone tried to pay with a credit card and I, thinking that they must have made a mistake, denied the payment. The resulting mess was not pretty but we didn't get to a shouting match or leave bad feedback. After that I tried to fix it by advertising that I didn't take credit cards. So eBay cancelled those auctions (they don't believe in sending a warning to change something) and said I had no choice but to take credit cards and upgrade my PayPal account if someone wanted to pay that way. They assured me that I would enjoy paying for all of the options I have no intention of using but that are being foisted upon me. It reminded me of that stupid "lie back and enjoy it" advice that used to be given to women in case they were raped. So much for eBay's promise that PayPal is free to use* at their site. (They need a huge asterisk so you go in and find all of the conditions as they really exist.)

I've been using eBay for nearly a year, and thought I was getting the hang of it until this happened.

SRS