I was immediately turned off when a different, exchange website asked me to upload a photo of myself holding my driver's license in one hand and a paper with the name of the website and date in the other.
Just my experience. To me, it seemed like a joke.
I recall being asked by a keen young thing if his (completely legal) online business should take bitcoin only. I suggested that since he wanted people to give him their money, he needed to make it easier for people to give him their money; not harder. The website of which you speak, I can only imagine, didn't really want your business.
At least on EBay, the seller has some protections. On a random website you won’t.
Some countries have reliable postal systems that take forever and others have a high rate of fraudsters or thieving postal workers.
Sometimes some regions of the country are fine and others aren’t, but how can I know that?
If you're buying a comic book from a store the next city over and they only take bitcoin, they don't want your custom and accepting the extra cost and hassle of indulging their political leanings isn't worth it.
But if you’re in a developing country, even if your postal system is reliable, it’s hard to get sellers over any perception that you live in a mud hut and must be defrauding them.
Bank wires can be recalled, and take a while. My bank even charges $25 or so to receive one. Maybe Western Union would be an option. Bank drafts and cash can be counterfeit, let alone hard to get in my local currency (Canadian dollars).
As a seller, I would directly accept a handful of country’s payments directly, and leave the rest in crypto-only via a payment processor that pays me in $. That maximizes my revenue and minimizes my hassle.
Putting aside everything else, I will say that your bank, like many banks in the US, is frequently found to be taking the piss. For a first world, developed nation, the retail banking sector in the US is in serious need of a bloody nose.
Unless you’re doing a SEPA transfer, the UK bank I looked at still charges for receiving and sending wires. And you always get dinged if there’s a currency exchange.
Expect it moving forward.
Coinbase and the like failed to do it initially, and had to play catch-up during the peak of the activity towards the end of last year / early this year. I guess it was a sort of tech debt with regards to their customer support and experience dealing with KYC problems?