CORRECTION: You did NOT ask me if you could accept Western Union payments for your products. You asked if it was okay to offer to sell your bitcoins for Western Union (or vice versa) - to which I answered that yes, that was fine. You presented it as a case of trading WU for coins or coins for WU - which is fine - you NEVER ONCE mentioned that you were referring to accepting Western Union payments for your actual products. When you started that thread, you asked about using it for bitcoins. You should have known - and I feel like you had to have - that accepting payment in any form other than bitcoin is against the rules. It circumvents the escrow system which is put in place to protect buyers and sellers. It has nothing to do with SR not receiving their cut - it is simply against the rules. Just like how another vendor was banned due to asking for payment via bank transfer.