I also have a used 1st-gen model, upgraded with hall-effect joysticks and a 2TB SSD with a glass screen protector that I am willing to part with. Apart from a few barely-visible scuffs on the plastic housing, it's in great condition. If you're interested, let me know how to get in touch!
Sending cash to a postal address isn't low-effort nor low-risk.
Payment by cheque is something I have never done, nor would I know how to do it. I'd have to ask at my bank -- not low effort. I don't know if I'm an outlier here but I have never heard from any of my peers who ever did such a thing.
The same or even worse is true for international money orders. The whole concept of making a money transfer to a postal address is something I have never heard of. Where's the IBAN?
The Wine team is right to put even PayPal before all of these.
Or how about instead of passing the cost off to users, Steam actually supports them from their own profits? After all, they are profiting from free work.
We can't be pushovers about this.
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-is-paying-a-whole-lot-of-devel...
Such donations might even be tax-deductible revenue for Valve, so even the finance bros should love it.
Although I would prefer if Valve simply commits to a fixed percentage of its Steam fee to be donated...
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-thos...
So it would be actually financially _better_ for Valve to donate a portion of their revenue and state "we will donate x% of the price to yy", as THEN it would be tax-deductible for them
