Do most people not expect to spend the money eventually? What else are you going to do with it?

Unless you are getting international transfers for the purpose of buying drugs or speculating/trading I completely disagree with this.

Have taken payment for consulting in BTC a few times and would always get it into a local exchange then sell/transfer out within an hour, it's pretty painless when you are all setup with the exchange, fee's on my end come to 0.8% total amount, not capped.

So $80 for a $10k payment in BTC, that's not including the senders fees, exchange movements and time spent. Looking at transferwise now they will do the same $10K from USD to AUD for $80.60