Feel free to bid, I will give you a discount on shipping and if are willing to use alternative payment methods will give a decent discount on the final sale's price.
Listing on eBay used to be my job and while it isn't so much anymore, I still do list a good deal of items and am forced to use Paypal (it is not applicable in this situation, but you would fine an actual merchant account isn't so great at preventing buyer fraud either.) There are other...
Paypal will send your account to collections and ding your credit; they store all of your personal and banking information, so removing it on your end does nothing; however, Paypal does not have any power to compel payment via the threat of criminal penalty unlike a real banking institution...
Thanks for the kinds word and mention to your friends.
Daily Update: Many games still with no bids, many more with modest bids at the moment. Also, I flirted with a great-grandmother today, such is the lot in life of a soon to be thirty year old.
I need money for grad school and/or for a pretty girl (whichever turns out to be cheaper and/or more willing to accept my propensity to lapse into self indulgent rants on the nature of man, dog and fried ice cream.) Hence I am listing most of my personal RPG collection on eBay; list includes...
Here the links to the story(ies) from the Newark Advocate, the local paper where the incident took place and the first newspaper to break the story - it was picked up by the AP wire last night.
http://newarkadvocate.com/article/20081009/NEWS01/810090314&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL...
Everyone here is giving you great advice, however, if it comes down to initiating a complaint, start with the merchant bank who issued your credit card.
Your chargeback rights are nearly absolute in a situation like this, and it saves you the step of dealing with Paypal directly.
What is "shady" is offering expediated shipping options when they are apparently unnecessary in this case, or at least in regards to getting the game on the release date.