Warren Nethercote wrote:
Jack is in some ways the only game in town, so whatever he offers for terms is what we accept.
Ouch. If somebody else would like to be the only game in town, my business is available, at quite affordable terms, to someone who will carry the torch. I started Kinetic Vehicles as a CMC dealer, and when they folded, there was NO game in town, and y'all want your Locost parts...and you want them low cost, right? Doing check-only payment was the low costest way to do it.
Locost builders have been 'accepting' our check-only terms for over a decade, the PayPal thing is just a way to make it more convenient (and faster) for those who value convenience as greater than 3% of the total.
Warren Nethercote wrote:
I have two excellent suppliers for ice boat hardware, both US-based. One ONLY accepts cash or cheques, while the other accepts cash, cheques or PayPal. Either one gets used for planned purchases. Guess which one gets used for short-fuse purchases.
That's pretty much what I had in mind with the PayPal option, and that I could be both suppliers at once. If you want, for example, a nose and a scuttle, and you're not in a big hurry, you can save yourself twelve bucks by doing the stamp-and-envelope thing, but if you want two suspension brackets right away, it's probably worth the sixty one cents extra to have PayPal handle the cost of the parts and the Priority Mail postage, particularly now that mailing us a check requires a 55¢ postage stamp.