"Pay before the item ships" is nearly ubiquitous online even if you used Paypal or a debit card or whatever. Maybe if you'd used a method like that they'd not e

"Pay before the item ships" is nearly ubiquitous online even if you used Paypal or a debit card or whatever. Maybe if you'd used a method like that they'd not even be pretending to think about sending your item, vs just pocketing your cash. I'm not sure "vendor is so paranoid about fraud because credit cards are too consumer friendly, thus credit cards aren't payer-friendly" follows from this story more than "vendor is just acting in bad faith."