And the generally-touted reason for that is that PP charges rather obscene fees to the merchant (Because It Can), which AX doesn’t want to absorb. Okayfine, but when I get nicked for almost a buk extra on an order where that’s a pretty significant percentage of the order, I just pass altogether.
First AX started hitting me with tax (and after the place-order stage, so you don’t know until after that you thought you were paying 10bux for something, only to have it show up later as 11bux instead). Then tack on another 80¢ for the “privilege” of using PP, and forget it. I all but stopped ordering anything at all via AX.
Now, I think the tax is shown before clicking on [place order], but that’s when you see with all the add-ons that you could be paying an extra 20–25 on small orders.
Oh, and goodbye free-shipping, also, unless you’re okay with untracked Press Your Luck Express which takes 90-180 business days.
Yeah… no.