I really wanted to purchase this Throttle but unfortunately Roberto seems to want his customers to pay his merchant fees that Paypal dings him to accept payments through their (service)
I told Roberto I was ready to place my order, and he sent me the paypal address and asked me for my address to calculate shipping.
During that time, I sent him the cost via Paypal for his unit, $649.99
I then get an email back from him saying shipping from El Salvador to me in Los Angeles is $90 so total cost is $649 (though the site says $649.99?) + $90 + 4% PAYPAL FEES, total of $768.
Hmmm.
Well, I sent him the $90. Why am I as a customer going to pay a Merchant (Roberto) his Merchant Fees?
He sent me an email back very nicely saying "Thanks I will need the 4% of paypal fees for the total!"
I replied informing him why would I pay his Merchant Fees... sorry that's silly. If I as a business choose to accept credit cards, well the (company) that authorizes said card of course is going to ding the merchant 3-4%. That's just how it goes. But I as a customer am not responsible for that. A merchant of course can accept other forms of payment but in the long run, is going to get dinged anyhow.
I get charged $12 / month by my bank for having a business checking account. I don't change that back to my customers, it's a cost of business.
Roberto stated those fees are part of ebay and not paypal and since it's their fee not his he won't pay it. He did however offer to accept a check or money order, which was nice. I don't feel comfortable with that however.
So, sadly, I had to ask Roberto to please refund the paypal payments (which he did immediately) and am not going to be ordering this throttle. Too bad too, was really looking forward to it. I guess I'll just put this towards the 3K full sized unit.
Good luck to everyone who buys it. I still think it's a great unit but this is just a conflict on interest.
Bummer.
Matt