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Greets,

Thanks much for your support!

Unfortunately, due to pretty rampant fraud that goes on online, we do only accept payments via PayPal. We're a small shop, as you probably know, and don't have the fraud prevention resources that they offer. We've used them for over 14 years without any negative issues. We do thousands of transactions with them a year and have never had an issue.

If you don't feel safe using PayPal, you really shouldn't use your CC online at all -- stick to mailed payments for all your online purchases. Personally, having an eCommerce background since 1996 - which is before most folks even knew what ecommerce was - PayPal's way more secure than any average place could ever be. I'm being completely serious when I say that -- and I mean absolutely no disrespect to you or your opinion about PayPal, wherever that opinion may be derived from.

You're well more secure giving your CC to PayPal than you are to some random site like ours, a small site that has no where near the resources they do to keep up with the security needed to keep out the hackers who are well financed and after CC numbers ---> Which is one of the main reasons we won't even accept your CC number directly.

Frankly, I'll never understand the notion that giving a CC number to some site that likely has low wage employees in charge of guarding CC numbers is safer or better than giving it to a huge company like PayPal who's business is just strictly managing payments. It's the only thing they do and IMHO, no one is going to be able to do that better than them. So, when it comes to that level of security, you can't beat a good ole "check in the mail".

(For the record, no, you do not have to create a PayPal account. It's clearly listed as optional -- as for having to agree to terms of using your CC... Well, sure.)

Screenshot from the check out on PayPal without an account (pay with debit card on left, credit card on right) -- click either photo for a large view of my screenshot...





Again, thanks for your support -- sorry we can't offer other options,
~~SM


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