> I've seen a number of conference organisers complain of this so it must happen often!
That's not really a valid argument. You don't know how many conferences used Paypal and went off without a hitch. Not many people are going to write a blog post saying, "We used PayPal, and it went fine!" - and of those, fewer still would hit the HN front page.
That's not really a valid argument. You don't know how many conferences used Paypal and went off without a hitch. Not many people are going to write a blog post saying, "We used PayPal, and it went fine!" - and of those, fewer still would hit the HN front page.