Trouble with french designer Alice and co.

I have been trying to order a couple of designs from this french company.  Their website isn't user friendly and you cannot buy their designs online. You have to print out an order form and email it.
They want you to pay either by cheque, paypal or bank transfer.  I don't have a chequebook,  I hate Paypal and so I thought I could pay by bank transfer.  This last option wasn't suggested to me at all. I have lost my patience with Emmanuelle Carre Briand and now I don't want to order from her.

I will try a bounty request instead.

spacecadet2015

You're right - their website isn't particularly user friendly!  I can understand designers not wanting to sell their designs as PDFs and only wanting to use Paypal - or bank transfer, although I wouldn't be happy using this method and I don't have a cheque book anymore - Paypal at least both the seller and buyer have some kind of protection and it's universal practically.  Lots of designs are shared online!!  And this harms the business of smaller business quite a bit.  It's probably a bit ironic to say something like this on a site like this but file sharing has caused a lot of companies to close so it's a bit of a Catch 22 situation!  

MadCatter

How weird. You would think they would try and work with you on the different payment options

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2017-11-13 10:36
You're right - their website isn't particularly user friendly!  I can understand designers not wanti ...

It's so easy to create a very nice pdf file these days that I think they are doing themselves out of business by not being user friendly (as experienced by the original poster here!).  

ilovetostitch

In these pays of instant payments and instant downloads, they will lose a lot of trade doing business they way they are

tricialynn

Depending on what kind of bank account you have, foreign transfers are expensive unless you can do a debit card transaction. I had such a big argument and dispute with Paypal I'll never use it again!

Marty109

It says you can pay by IBAN and to contact her? If you live in France I don't see a problem.