How Ordering and Payment Works Here

Most online shops take your card at checkout. We do not, and the reason is worth explaining because it changes what you should expect.

When you check out here, you are submitting an order request rather than completing a purchase. You tell us where it is going and how you would prefer to pay. We then check two things: that we can lawfully ship every item to your address, and that we have the stock.

Once that is done we send payment instructions for the method you chose. You pay off-site, tell us you have sent it, and a person on our side confirms receipt before anything is despatched.

The trade-off is honest: it is slower than a card checkout. What you get in exchange is that no card data is processed or stored on our servers, so there is no card data here for anyone to steal — not in a breach, not in a leak, not ever.

One clarification, because the naming causes confusion: we accept Apple Cash, which is peer-to-peer, not Apple Pay. Apple Pay is a card-network wallet that requires a payment processor, and we deliberately do not have one. Any site showing you an Apple Pay button while claiming to take no card payments is telling you two things that cannot both be true.

Your order number is also your payment reference. Including it is what lets us match a payment to an order quickly, and leaving it off is the most common reason verification takes longer than it should.