I don’t have time to play a lot of games. As a result of not having a lot of free time, I usually wait till a game is on sale before justifying the purchase. Then comes the summer sale. My only real excuse for holding off is now gone. So I add items to my cart and proceed to check out.

PayPal
I check out using paypal. I’ve used paypal since 2010 with no issues. Until last Friday. After hours of trying almost everything I start chatting with paypal support. I end up trying everything again. Then waiting 48 hours and trying again. After a week I finally get support on the phone. Turns out that my account isn’t verified and to get it verified I would need to link a bank account. I asked why; why wasn’t 10+ years of use verification enough. Same answer… for security and that there was nothing else to be done. Well, I told paypal what they could stick and where and where they could go in a rough, crude, and belligerent manner.

Gpay
I noticed GoG accepted gpay. Ok; I don’t have a google account but I’d create one. I enter name, password, and (after 30 min. of trying) username [at] gmail. Clicked next. Requires a phone number for verification. More garbage. But ok. I enter my home (land line) number. I receive the error that this phone number can not be used for verification. I search on line and all I can find is that to many accounts have been created using that phone number. Which is impossible. I’ve had this number for 30 years. No one has used it to verify a google account. What ever. I’ll use the second line (that is only used for the fax machine) that I’ve had for just as long. Same error. I tried my cell phone number that I got back in early 2008. Same error. I’ve tried two more cell numbers in my house that we've had since 2011/2012 and received the same error. I had my sister try her cell, ipad, home, and husband's phone numbers and received the same error. I’m starting to believe that there is something wrong with google.

Credit Card
Finally I thought screw it; I’ll just enter my cc. Guess what happened. Declined. I called the issuer of the card. Apparently the reason for the decline was that the billing addresses did not match. At checkout all I can enter is the card number, expiration date, and code. The cc co. tried pre-authorizing the charge but it still failed. Luckily I had another card.

This was a week long ordeal to make a purchase from GoG.

Perhaps all they want is your mobile number. It's the entry point to all the personal data and tracking they could ever need.

you'r already past the point of no return, so there is no need for this self inflicted torture! change your paypal password to somethin in the 20 digits range and link your bank account

don't forget to write the pw down!!

You went from PayPal to google? Well I suppose the upside is that now everybody in this universe knows all your data, and you have appeared on all advertising lists.

I only say one word, one word only: Paysafecard!

Technology is so overrated. We should go back to the much simpler means of trading cattle, food and nights with the farmers eldest daughter/son (delete as appropriate), as a major form of currency. So much less to go wrong...

You must've been off-planet when they introduced the monetary system based on precious metals. ;-P

Somebody once told me that games without computers also exist(ed). Sure yeah, do I look that gullible?

I went through this with Paypal over a decade ago - and did the same - left them in my rear-view mirror. No-way, no-how would I give Paypal my banking information. Ain't gonna happen. Never. Weird the problems you had there. Not too surprising about the land-lines (after all - Google is all-about "smartphones" and the like. But it's pretty strange to get that result from that promulgation of cell numbers. I have a Google account, and use GPay all the time (mostly in "brick and mortar" stores that accept it). TBH I hadn't realized I could use it here on GOG, and may try it for a next-purchase (instead of my "wallet"). Not sure what you mean by "billing address did not match". Seems like something you should be able to fix.

I use credit cards extensively, and, yes, that "billing" address has to match - IOW - what you have "on file" at a vendor as your "billing address", needs to match what you have "on file" at that credit card company. If you move, or, say, use a PO Box for "bills" and your street address otherwise, or other situations (as examples), you could get a "non-match". This is something you should be able to fix, on either your credit card website with your log-on, and/or on the vendor website (aka GOG).

Sounds frustrating. Hope you get it solved (either "fixed" or by just "walking away").

Really? Have you seen the farmers eldest? Just watch lister marrying the gelf in red dwarf entomorph episode!

He took one for the team.

Well, getting a dud every now and then is to be expected, I guess. You can win em all...
What a Champ!. :D