After careful consideration, I’ve come to the conclusion that for legal reasons I cannot feasibly accept payments for products, in “real” currencies, at this point. As such, I’ve removed the (as yet unused, thankfully) two sample PP vendors from in-world.
I’ll be posting an article on the exact details of real world payments in virtual worlds over the weekend, for the curious. Personally, my issue stems from the fact that I’m primarily in full time employment (with SL as a hobby), and additionally that I am intent on emigrating next year. These factors mean that accepting payments in a real currency would require excessive amounts of paperwork to handle correctly, and expose me to unreasonable levels of risk (of mistakes in tax returns etc.).
Obviously, this is greatly disappointing for me, as it highlights far too well one of the complications with the vendors. I hope you’ll be patient with me in this matter, and with luck I’ll be able to accept payments directly during the financial year 2010-2011.