I was going to use bitcoin to make a $400 purchase from egifter.com the other day. But this new "feature" drove me away, so the merchant lost $400, although they'll probably never know it. They only have bitpay to thank.
It's bad enough paying transaction fees once, but I would have had to pay a transaction fee to move funds from wallet-A to wallet-B, then another transaction fee to make the purchase. Sorry. Not happening.
Yeah it's this double fee thing that's really changed things-- even if they get the app working better, those fees are impossible.
Right now there's around $130 on my wallet's balance, with a notice suggesting that it will cost too much to spend, or something: