Does anyone accept it - for full or part payment. Real experiences please since I've already ready the small print on the site!

Apologies, I didn't look! I've read the thread you linked. My concern is more that clients could run chargeback easily. I've had one or two want to pay with their credit cards - don't have pp account themselves but would give me card details as a source of funds for the pappal form. I've used systems like these on nochex to pay for goods/services etc so know it's possible.

I know they can shut the account but mine is via a personal email. I'd like to know how easy it is to retract payment after the event. As far as I can read in their small print is that in case of chargeback via card provider you/I would then be expected to return the funds, even be billed at my home address if I've already withdrawn funds.

Chargebacks - you ring your card provider, tell them you had your card stolen or misused. This can also happen if say someone uses a stolen or cloned credit card.

At the moment I'm being treated as if there is something wrong with me not accepting other payments apart from cash, and I've rubbed myself up the wrong way about it - probably because I like my job and don't want anything going wrong!

not sure about the chargeback stuff, but my recent experience with paypal went like this

he filled in dispute form saying "email sent" that's all it said

I get an email alerting me to the fact a dispute had been filed and to put my side

I send a detailed reply of everything that had happened from time of sending, down to where package was in use, and detailed whois records to show it was the buyer useing it.

he doesn't reply and after 20 odd days it went to paypal to be reviewed

he was awarded the refund and i got a message telling me i wasn't covered by the seller protection

At the moment I'm being treated as if there is something wrong with me not accepting other payments apart from cash, and I've rubbed myself up the wrong way about it - probably because I like my job and don't want anything going wrong!

You're definitely not doing anything wrong. There isn't a secret cabal of us all accepting paypal for our rates and not telling anyone else because we're making a squillion pounds. Whoever it is who thinks he can pay for escort services via paypal is the one who probably thinks he belongs to a secret cabal or something. Nutter! And proper nutters always try to make the other person feel like they're in the wrong, too. Tsk.

  I agree with above. If some one pays you from their pay pal account then the chances that they will charge back is surely slim? allot of men wont wont any kind of dispute in-case the wife finds out. or so i would have thought.

 But if some one puts any pressure on, then you have to be thinking dodgy card...

I send a detailed reply of everything that had happened from time of sending, down to where package was in use, and detailed whois records to show it was the buyer using it.

Have you tried complaining to their ISP that they're using stolen software?

maybe a little bit out of topic but what happens when a client transfers some travel fee and so from his paypal to my paypal account as a gift? haven't done it yet but am planing to propose these days to one potential...hmmmm
I see no other way that we both keep our private data (of course, I am concerned with mine not his).  how else I could get travel expenses covered in advance???