Sachys: Before you ask why I dont use paypal - cant - bank wont connect to it due to the debit thingy (ie it draws money when it feels like it) and besides... I dont want a paypal account.
blotunga: It never drew any money from me so far... And usually Paypal's conversion is worse than my banks so I just use Paypal basically to "mask" my credit card (and I don't have to enter the details to third parties every time).
same here, my cc-bank gives me much better conversion rates than paypal or amazon.
PS: but I see Sachys' problem. E.g. formally I thought Germany was shit on telecom/ internet plans, then I moved to Japan and some friends moved to the UK. Since then I learned of totally new ways to buttfrak customers.
And at some point I had a UK CC-Card, they wanted £2+ for every transaction, well it was a one way card given as compensation anyway, so I had to spent the money in one purchase, no big deal for that, but for regular customers...
ok, BTT... :)