[OzzyB]

Listen, you're doing yourself a huge disservice by accepting payment by credit card for "services rendered".

I don't care what other credit card services are out there that seem to be more friendly than PayPal -- it doesn't matter -- you will always be at the mercy of Visa/Mastercard's policies, and they exist to empower the cardholder, not the merchant/provider.

Asking for a cheque is fine, put it in your bank, wait for it to clear, go party.

[brdrak]

That's a fair point, but using checks has its own issues, no? For one, it can take forever to get one, so I think makes sense for larger payments from established clients.

What about a use case where a new client wants some emergency work done and I tell them, fine, happy to work on this, please go here and buy 2 hours of my time at an emergency rate.