I agree with you Paul. When I sell stuff on eBay, I leave all payment options open, tho I prefer PayPal. I also like to pay with PayPal if I can. But the shipping charges seem like they're getting out of hand lately. If you buy bubble mailers bulk, and send one chip, for example, it shouldn't cost anybody more than a buck to send it. The most I've ever sent were 5 chips, I think, and it still didn't cost more than around $1.50. I don't know--maybe some folks have odd circumstances where they need to hike the postage (???) but overall I'd say these hi-chargers are just trying to line their pockets. Their perogative, I guess, but I'm probably not gonna be one who buys from them. My $0.02.