/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Has anyone ordered from TaobaoSpree recently? Last year I just sent them a spreadsheet order form, pretty straightforward, but I'm trying to start an order right now and the agent says they no longer support sending payment directly to them on Paypal, I have to go to this shop she linked me to and make an order made of random items that totals the same amount as the items that I actually want. In this case I would have to find a way to make an 898 rmb order out of the things in their "store" to pay for the single dress that I'm trying to order from an actual Taobao store. She put these instructions in fine print too for some reason. Is this really their new normal?