Do you play any online games or are a part of any website that has "alternative" currency? Gaia items; DeviantART points; Furcadia digos; Second Life lindens; etc.?
I know for me when I was around your age, I was not allowed to have a PayPal account and handle money, but I still did full-blown commissions. I played a lot of online games and such, and so for "payment", people would give me wanted items that usually had a monetary value associated with them. (For example, on DeviantART, 80 points is equal to one USD, so if you really wanted to take commissions, you could do like, a full body sketch for $20 or 1600 points. You can't convert the points back to dollars as far as I know, but if you really, say, wanted a subscription from the DeviantART market but didn't have real money to pay for it, points would make a good alternative.) Stuff like these kind of commissions generally suck for if you want to use real money on stuff outside of online merchandise, but if you have things you generally want online or in-game and still want to do commissions, they make for a good alternative. I've also seen people do commissions for things like Amazon gift cards, etc. so they also wouldn't have to fool around with Paypal or money, but I'm not sure how deep you want to go into all of that!
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Date: 2011-11-30 09:26 pm (UTC)I know for me when I was around your age, I was not allowed to have a PayPal account and handle money, but I still did full-blown commissions. I played a lot of online games and such, and so for "payment", people would give me wanted items that usually had a monetary value associated with them. (For example, on DeviantART, 80 points is equal to one USD, so if you really wanted to take commissions, you could do like, a full body sketch for $20 or 1600 points. You can't convert the points back to dollars as far as I know, but if you really, say, wanted a subscription from the DeviantART market but didn't have real money to pay for it, points would make a good alternative.) Stuff like these kind of commissions generally suck for if you want to use real money on stuff outside of online merchandise, but if you have things you generally want online or in-game and still want to do commissions, they make for a good alternative. I've also seen people do commissions for things like Amazon gift cards, etc. so they also wouldn't have to fool around with Paypal or money, but I'm not sure how deep you want to go into all of that!