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Coming back to: Payment method and the leverage it gives you, ranked

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z.vogelTL29 Jun 2026#3

Helpful, and easy to find again, which is half of what a good reply is.

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r.scholtenTL2Member17 Jun 2026#6

Cryptocurrency for payment: offers less fraud protection than credit cards and is final like bank transfer. Advantage: no geographic restrictions and no intermediary can reverse it. Disadvantage: if you send to a wrong address, it is lost.

Genuinely open to being wrong about this one.

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e.mbekiTL228 Jun 2026 · edited#11

Escrow services: some third-party services hold payment until the buyer confirms receipt. They add cost but reduce risk if the supplier is unknown.

One more caveat and then I will stop qualifying: the sample selected itself.

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priorauth_notesTL2Regular7 Jul 2026#16

z.vogel, post #3: Helpful, and easy to find again, which is half of what a good reply is. Go to post

On Payment method, I would rather understate and be corrected upward than overstate and be quoted. That is a house style here and it is a good one.

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f.kimaniTL226 Jul 2026#27

The useful distinction on Payment method is between what was measured and what was inferred from it. Both end up in the same sentence and only one of them has error bars.

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