[indigo945]

Yes, this surprised me as well. Credit card and Paypal information should give the police everything they need to identify the criminal (in a way that's much more simple and reliable than via IP address, which may be obfuscated via a VPN or similar). Why not take it, it's free?

[Barbing]

Prove intent at point of “clicking pay” (technically!), to snare those who’d get cold feet entering their credit card.

Why not take their Bitcoin though… maybe they might be building other cases or something

[ralferoo]

Probably doing so would be against the ToS of the payment providers.