I'm committed to trying Genesis-Mining... but not more than $150 on my first go... and not paying $10 for a wire transfer since I'm only committing less than $150 to try out a new vendor I don't know much about.

I don't mind jumping through hoops to pay (only accepting DOGE, or PayPal, or Coinbase, or CC, etc) but I'm not going to eat a $10 bank fee... From the looks of this thread... others aren't willing to either.

I highly suggest you relay that to Marco. It looks like you already have (and hes already trying to rectify the situation) but the reality is he could even accept BTC in less than 5 min. There really is no excuse.