Posted October 29, 2015
Okay, so, after discovering Sword Coast Legends (and specifically, how much it sucks,) on Steam, and ranting about how the ToEE and original NWN games were better, I decided to go ahead and try and buy them again. I played them way back in the day, loved them, but buggered if I can find the disks.
I then decided to throw on Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, because it was also a good one from back in the day. I tried to pay with my debit card, and the payment was refused.
I went to my bank to sort the mess out, and was told in no uncertain terms that because the transaction was apparently coming from Cyprus, a part of the world where bank fraud and transaction fraud was rife, all transactions to and from Cyprus were blocked. They said that they would allow transactions, if I wanted to, but any fraud that hit me would be my problem, not theirs.
They also don't have any sane options like "Just allow the NEXT transaction and then no others," they only had "wide open for two days" "wide open forever" and "nothing at all."
Deciding that I couldn't really run the risk of losing all my cash, I sought alternative means of payment. PayPal is right out, because I do not do PayPal, for reasons which are both personal and technical. So I saw that gog.com accepted something called "paysafecard", which a German friend of mine swore by as the way he did all of his online transactions. So I checked their website, and discovered that yes, there was an outlet within a reasonable distance of me!
So I drove there, paid $26.75 for a $25 paysafecard ticket, drove home. I attempted to check out with paysafecard from gog.com, which redirected me to paysafecard to input my ticket number.
I did that, clicked the "pay" button, and nothing happened. The Pay button just turns into a "wait" circle that spins forever, while I watch. The PIN input in Firefox turns red, and hovering over it tells me to please use the correct format - but I have.
I tried again with Chrome. Chrome does not give an arrow, but it does the spinny-forever wait thing.
I tried again from my Android smartphone, this one gives me a "Please enter a valid PIN" error. I checked the balance at every stage on Paysafecard's website, it always tells me that my "card" has its full amount on it.
I sent info@paysafecard.com an email, with screenshots and photos of my receipt with the paysafecard PIN on it, asking to know what was up. The was yesterday night, and they still have not gotten back to me.
I'm seriously incandescent with rage here. Did I miss something about GOG.com not being able to take payment from US-bought paysafecard tickets? Is Paysafecard screwed up somehow? Have I actually been defrauded, and if so, what step(s) should I take to remedy this?
I then decided to throw on Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, because it was also a good one from back in the day. I tried to pay with my debit card, and the payment was refused.
I went to my bank to sort the mess out, and was told in no uncertain terms that because the transaction was apparently coming from Cyprus, a part of the world where bank fraud and transaction fraud was rife, all transactions to and from Cyprus were blocked. They said that they would allow transactions, if I wanted to, but any fraud that hit me would be my problem, not theirs.
They also don't have any sane options like "Just allow the NEXT transaction and then no others," they only had "wide open for two days" "wide open forever" and "nothing at all."
Deciding that I couldn't really run the risk of losing all my cash, I sought alternative means of payment. PayPal is right out, because I do not do PayPal, for reasons which are both personal and technical. So I saw that gog.com accepted something called "paysafecard", which a German friend of mine swore by as the way he did all of his online transactions. So I checked their website, and discovered that yes, there was an outlet within a reasonable distance of me!
So I drove there, paid $26.75 for a $25 paysafecard ticket, drove home. I attempted to check out with paysafecard from gog.com, which redirected me to paysafecard to input my ticket number.
I did that, clicked the "pay" button, and nothing happened. The Pay button just turns into a "wait" circle that spins forever, while I watch. The PIN input in Firefox turns red, and hovering over it tells me to please use the correct format - but I have.
I tried again with Chrome. Chrome does not give an arrow, but it does the spinny-forever wait thing.
I tried again from my Android smartphone, this one gives me a "Please enter a valid PIN" error. I checked the balance at every stage on Paysafecard's website, it always tells me that my "card" has its full amount on it.
I sent info@paysafecard.com an email, with screenshots and photos of my receipt with the paysafecard PIN on it, asking to know what was up. The was yesterday night, and they still have not gotten back to me.
I'm seriously incandescent with rage here. Did I miss something about GOG.com not being able to take payment from US-bought paysafecard tickets? Is Paysafecard screwed up somehow? Have I actually been defrauded, and if so, what step(s) should I take to remedy this?
Post edited October 29, 2015 by ShadowDragon8685
This question / problem has been solved by Sachys