How to pay
Payment Options.
Bank transfer is the quickest - in 2mins you can set it up, then after that it will take you 10 secs on all future orders!
Payment Methods
Available to UK and International Customers.
Payment instructions are emailed immediately after placing your order (unless you have made a typo in your email address or you used a Privacy Guest account at checkout where we don't have your email!). You will also see the details after the checkout too.
Available to UK and International Customers.
Pay us using Proton Wallet (a free bitcoin wallet service) from the same folks we've been running our entire email infrastructure on since 2017.
If you don't want to use Proton Wallet, but still want to pay using bitcoin, we can generate you a wallet address to send to - we don't have that system fully set up at checkout yet but are planning to soon set up BTCPay Server!
Available to UK and International customers.
Payment instructions will be sent to you by email after you place the order (unless you have made a typo in your email address or you used a Privacy Guest account at checkout where we don't have your email!). You will also see the details after the checkout too.
We only accept payment in GBP (Pounds sterling) unless your foreign currency is topped up by 10% to account for our conversion fees.
Sorry about this folks! In 2019, PayPal suddenly had a disliking to our harmless (and completely legal) microscopy spore products that they shut down their payment service with us (after around 10K orders from our eBay shop in 2017, to our .com in 2018-2019 with only 2 - both unjustified - chargebacks attempted in all of that time)... We believe this was due to three USA States in which those spores were illegal, confusing their laws with our UK law!
Interestingly enough, some or all of those same states in recent years changed their laws to make "magic mushrooms" completely legal, not just the harmless microscopy spores, but their actual cultivation, sale and consumption!
Although PayPal now lets shops sell these products, we harbour a 6-year grudge with them for the treatment of our shop in 2019, after they illegally withheld our customers' payments for 180 days - forcing us to send hundreds of active orders out without payment confirmation as we couldn't see who had or hadn't paid for the order - causing us reputational damage, and to make matters worse they couldn't point us to ANY term of service we had supposedly broken. We wrote all about this fiasco in our News section back in 2019 if you care to take a look.
So, sorry customers, never again out of principle.
These internet giants rule the internet - whatever they say goes because they can. They don't give a toss about the wee people like us or you.
Our whole business is treated as high risk, and that keeps us and our competitors out of the normal ways of paying (except for the shops which cleverly sidestep the 'high risk' category by only selling kits and promoting a second connected shop for the other products with discount codes to use).
Thing is though - bank transfer is actually the superior payment choice, because the transaction is much more private and you never need to worry a hacker has fitted a digital skimmer at checkout to siphon card details.
...Which is exactly what happened to us during our time off from the business in January 2024 when we were shut and not checking our business account, after purchasing from a supplier called clearbags. Only noticing by pure luck once Β£10K had already left in small payments to insurance companies, Apple and Netflix subscriptions and even an HMP prison to pay for someone's phone calls! You couldn't write it. And those annoying text messages from the bank to confirm it was us making a payment, not a single time did we get one of those from hundreds of scam payments coming out - we asked the bank fraud team how they managed to get around them and they told us the scammers were clever at getting around anything.
Yes, we got all of our money back from the bank (thank you) but we spent months dealing with it, because dozens of subscriptions were still coming out of our bank. Then came the insurance companies wanting their money back that the banks had clawed back, threatening us with legal action. It was a nightmare we would never have experienced had we paid by bank transfer. Now for every supplier and new shop we purchase from, we ALWAYS ask to pay by bank transfer.
Bank transfer rules, but it also costs us a massive amount of lost business as companies try to convince people that bank transfer is unsafe when my above argument completely turns that on its head.
So we do it our own way now! Bank transfer, cash in post and crypto are all there at checkout, and every one of them comes with its own instructions by email.
Still stuck? Get in touch.
