I sort of vaguely remember that at some point during the last year, a number of reliable IOP's were totally cut off from using Paypal to process payments. Many of them at the time switched to requiring money orders as the only form of payment, and most of these IOP's gradually drifted off the boards. It was just too much of a pain to buy an international MO, mail it to someplace overseas, wait for it to arrive, wait for your order to ship, etc etc etc,

I think that's more or less what happened to Pharmatico (correct me if I'm wrong). So it makes sense that someone took advantage of the opportunity to provide alternative CC processing.