Okay now, I don't know how the mechanisms of paying for something on the internet works, and so this might seem a stupid question, but I really don't know.
Every time I've ordered something all I've had to do is give the number off my plastic card.
Once in a while a vendor demanded that I also in addition use Paypal. I have no idea why. And it seems stupid, because it takes longer to do that than merely to enter one's plastic card number.....not to mention it requires opening an account with Paypal.
So I never ordered anything from any of these places that said I had to use Paypal too.
<<<has nothing against Paypal; just doesn't want to open a Paypal account because it's more time and trouble than any "benefit" I'd get from it.
If someone demanded Paypal, they just didn't get franksolich's business.
In all cases, if someone needed just franksolich's plastic card numbers, they got my business.
Now I've come across a dilemma. Three days ago, by accident, I stumbled upon what has to be the greatest movie ever made in the whole history of cinema, Peter the Great from 1986.
Forget anything else I ever said about any other greatest movies ever made--Lawrence of Arabia, Waterloo, La Revolution francaise, Amadeus, Julius Caesar--I saw those before I saw Peter the Great so my judgement was premature.
Trust me; there cannot possibly be any movie greater than, more excellent than, Peter the Great. Perfection cannot be perfected.
So I decided to buy a DVD of this movie.
They're available, but the vendors demand Paypal, rather than just my plastic card numbers.
Bitch.
What I don't get--and remember, I may be getting this wrongly--is that the plastic card companies take a cut from the vendor of something, and surely Paypal does too. Why would vendors be willing to fork over even more of their slender precarious profits to two processors of payments instead of just one?