I'm buying a female spotnose het. pied from a breeder on KS. He told me he was fine with me doing a payment plan for her. The only issue is, he doesn't want to pay the PayPal seller fees. He gave me the option to mail him a check, but I don't have or use checks. He also said that I could "gift" him the payment. I don't feel comfortable gifting a payment to someone I don't know and have never worked with before. I wouldn't be protected if something went wrong during the sale. Also, I was under the assumption that PayPal fees weren't all that high?... I could be wrong, though.

I haven't been able to find any bad information on him as a seller, and I found only one thread on here where he is mentioned. Someone had said "he was a cool guy". The seller has been very up front in answering my questions and has sent me a couple of pictures of the girl. He asked me to call him this evening to discuss the payments and the options.

Is there any other way I could set up payment with him and still be protected?