BUT their payment methods are a joke if you don't live in the US.

If they didn't wanna use PayPal then fair enough, but surely they could offer a direct credit card facility?

This is all pretty easy to say if you are not in their shoes (as I am).

PayPal is a complete joke and a CON! If you use it as a seller (like I do) you can build in AT LEAST 10% for fraudulent buyers - buyers simply have no idea just how shifty PayPal is but a HUGE percentage have worked out how easy it is to defraud sellers if they use PayPal. EVERY seller you use that offers PP is charging you 10% more than they need to to cover this - me included - please remember that next time you spruke about how marvelous PayPus are!

Getting a credit card merchant facility is not easy nor is it cheap.

I guess the bottom line is they have stuff nobody else does and if you want it then you pay the way THEY choose, after all it is their business.