To make matters worse, the payment was in "lindens" which is the Second Life currency, not dollars. It was a literal nightmare logging the payments because the commissioner would demand things and then pay be lindens before I could even agree to anything. There's also the complication of converting lindens into US dollars and calculating what that equivalent comes to.

Just one of the many reasons I've stopped doing Second Life commissions, my TOS now states that I will only be accepting payments through Paypal.