Credit cards charge fees.  American Express fees can be more than 5%.  I don't think this is about that fee it is about Lee's outrageous programing costs.  

My goodness, is it that complicated paying by international bank transfer?

Oh, yes, that's true.

It's complicated, and very expensive, as it has a fixed fee and a variable fee, which can be compared to the annual gold membership. And just for fun, from abroad You need to transfer foreign currency to England (even if You transfer GBP), and You are NOT able to send the correct ammount, as nowadays the EU changed the rules, so You can not accept all costs for a transfer. For this reason, sometimes there is no way to transfer an exact ammount to the recipient.

IMHO there is a very simple way to use Paypal for the Payment - simply add a Paypal address to the registration page as a Paypal payment method, and this way anybody can send money to You. Just for fun: This way the sender covers the fees and not the recipient!

Use Skrill instead of Paypal.
It's far better and sender pays the fees.

It's also much safer since you don't constantly have to worry about the risk of
Paypal interfering, rolling dice and playing god with other peoples money.

Skrill was previously known as Moneybookers.
Skrill is also accepted by Ebay, though they don't make a big deal out of it for obvious reasons.

Martin

Leslie, do you mean IBAN ?

Its a saga for me to use it to transfer money to Europe and takes over a week using it if you do not have the recipient on your list.

It is being replaced by another system in the new year.

Yes "valve1", that's what I mean, IBAN.

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) system does come into play early next year but is only for payments in Euro's.

And it does not have to be literally a credit card, Debit cards work as well, as long as they are cleared for internet payments. Getting one of those should not be a problem in developed countries.

Debit cards in the netherlands are not able to pay like on this site. We can pay online but only through Ideal and Iban things.
I called them for this. 

Well yes, it needs to be a card that routes the payments through Visa or Mastercard. I thought the national bank cards were gone everywhere already.