Because Paypal is an untraceable and leaves little to no recourse if anything should go wrong or the person should decided to just bugger off without doing what I paid him for.
I think most of us understand where you are coming from.
I'm taking precautions as well.
Personally I'm requiring a down payment before starting
work on a project. Just to make sure that the client
actually has money to pay the commission, and if he should
back out I will have a small compensation for the wasted time.
The unpaid models would then end up in the shop. But as I said, so far I have never had any problems regarding payments.
It's quiet the opposite, some clients even donated on my website after the commissions were completed.
