Tried to convince a guy to sign up for bitpay so I could pay him in bitcoin. He's in the UK. Finally he gets it set up, I send him the money. Then he tells me it says there's a 1000 GBP minimum withdrawal, so he can't get the money. So he refunds it to me. After a day or two I get an email notifying me that I need to accept a refund. So I go and put in the address for the refund. It says it will process within 1 to 2 days. 3 days later, still no sign of it. What a lame experience. Bitcoin is supposed to be better than conventional banking, not worse.
I guess bitpay was not intended for small transactions like what you had, I believe bitpay was intended for people that wanted to accept bitcoins as payments for their business in the long term. Probably you should have just paid him through other payment channels.
