#payments 2026-04-28

thats a scam pattern

triple check it

follow up what happens if the price moves between invoice and payment

discount is standard now

on a small order the fee can be a meaningful fraction. on a large one the discount wins easily

nobody can verify an address belongs to who you think it does. that is the actual problem with all of this

wait for confirmations

keep the reference

paying in two parts is sometimes offered and it does not reduce your risk, it splits it

the discount pattern is roughly ten percent almost everywhere and it is a real saving at volume

a bank transfer leaves a paper trail and no recourse. people should know both halves of that

stablecoin while pending

coming back after 17 months, has anything changed on fees

how long do you wait before chasing an unconfirmed payment

thats gone sorry

refunds do happen and they are slow and awkward. do not count on one

whats a reasonable network fee to accept

the room holds no money, brokers nothing, and runs no escrow. that has never moved

check the first four and the last four characters of the address. every single time, no exceptions

invoice mismatches happen. check the total against what you actually sent, not against what you meant to send

update from 7 months ago: fees are lower than they were and the discount maths has changed, not advice obviously

work out the network fee before you take the ten percent discount. sometimes it eats it

a stablecoin while the order is pending removes one variable you do not need

if you are asked to pay a second time because the first "did not clear", stop and post it in the scam channel

there are no chargebacks here. that is the trade you are making and it should be a conscious one

do the fee maths

post it in scam watch