Not that I know of a better way to handle this. Bitcoins are terrifyingly unsecure when it comes to exchanges. Or purchases. It's just a cheap Western Union I guess.

Kind of silly to have the newbies restricted to this playpen. Everyone just posts nonsense until they can get into the other areas and say 'bitcoin for credit car plis!'

Illiterate.

Seriously though, the main argument for BTC is how convenient it is. It sounded that way until I set up several accounts just to initiate the several-day process of acquiring coins for the first time.

Ridiculous price aside, doesn't eBay forbid the exchange of digital goods like online game items, electronic currency, etc?

Also, eBay is almost exclusively run on PayPal now. Are BTC sellers just risking it for the sake of the price gouging opportunity?