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You dont need a creditcard to use Paypal. You can transfer money directly from your bank and to your Paypal account (this might not work in every country).
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Sony adds PayPal as a payment method for PSN
- Thread starter Sleeplessnights
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Just add a second address to your amazon.com account and use that address for digital purchases.
You can just add another billing address to your Amazon account (which you can log in on any other Amazon store.)
And you're currently on vacation in a hotel in Massachusetts which coincidentally has no sales tax on Amazon. I know I am.
Germany: No
US: No
UK: Yes
Japan: No
at least so far
I guess it should work for everyone/country by the end of the week.
If so, PSN ist just getting better and better 2012 thanks to PS+ and now PayPal.
I fear a lot more impulse purchases if I don't have to get cards/codes for the different regions first. Dx
US: No
UK: Yes
Japan: No
at least so far
I guess it should work for everyone/country by the end of the week.
If so, PSN ist just getting better and better 2012 thanks to PS+ and now PayPal.
I fear a lot more impulse purchases if I don't have to get cards/codes for the different regions first. Dx
hmm interesting, I guess I could go there, I heard the weather is nice...
IonicSnake
Banned
Was the new PS Store coming out tomorrow in EU? I heard some say Oct 17 so this could mean paypal will be a new method in the new store since it seems to work in EU now and not in the rest of the world. US is getting the new store next week on the 23rd.
I NEED SCISSORS
Banned
Awesome, guess I will finally pickup Journey and Sound Shapes. My credit card expired months ago and I cannot be arsed either renewing it or buying a pre-paid card from online.
Yep. Tomorrow for the EU.
So far we know that UK, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Holland have it? But Germany and Norway don't
Not really, because currently it doesn't work for other European countries. At least it doesn't work for German accounts, but I am used this. Germans are mostly fucked.
Sleeplessnights
Banned
That'd work if you can use PayPal in the PS Store. Maybe with the new PS Store It'd work.
Canis lupus
Member
Maybe with the update tomorrow they'll add it to the redesigned Store?
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Deleted member 59090
Unconfirmed Member
Nope, not in Poland.
Donny Hayabusa
Member
So does this mean I can purchase stuff from the us store again, living in Germany? (If PayPal makes it to the us store)
Canis lupus
Member
Works in Belgium aswel.
Gemüsepizza
Member
You probably still need a credit card for using Music Unlimited. Whoever is responsible for this should be fired.
Metalmurphy
Member
This is very good news. I got a fait bit of money there that I can't withdraw -.-
Yes, you should be able to do so, but you can also use $ prepaid cards.
Shai-Tan
Banned
I got a little excited about this until it dawned on me that they probably have the region restrictions turned on. My PSN account is US but I live in Canada now so I end up buying PSN cards online to get games on my Vita. I'm guessing my Canadian Paypal account (which has thousands of dollars in it) will be blocked from buying on a US PSN :/ (all assuming SCEA follows SCEE). I can't really use my credit cards for buying stuff like this because (a) they are all nearly full paying for business expenses (b) I need room on them to pay some bills when there isn't room in direct deposit from my bank account (c) The only one I really want to use on PSN doesn't work thanks to the terrible Sony address verification
slaughterking
Member
Is it possible youth protection laws prevent PayPal in Germany? PSN cards can't be sold to minors after all and I'm not sure if PayPal has any sort of age restriction.
Canis lupus
Member
Would it be possible to add paypal funds to my US account aswel or is this a 1psn/1paypal thing?
edit: same question as above lol
edit: same question as above lol
Gemüsepizza
Member
Here is a list with countries where Paypal is available:
http://en.support.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2949/kw/paypal
http://en.support.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2949/kw/paypal
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Scandinavia never gets anything from Sony anyway, so it's just business as usual.
No, youth protection laws don't prevent PayPal in Germany. Of course this also means minors can easily buy PSN cards here e.g. via ebay.
Metalmurphy
Member
*edit* Scratch that:
"Please note that your PayPal™ account must be registered in the same country as your Sony Entertainment Network account. For example, if your Sony Entertainment Network account was set up in France, you will only be able to use PayPal™ if your PayPal™ account billing address is also in France."
So, utterly worthless for me, cool.
Kiraly
Member
I can confirm that Paypal and iDEAL as well appear on my Dutch account:
Holy shit, even iDEAL?
MEGATON INDEED
Typhoon_Ex
Member
So this changes nothing to us international users... well that sucks, I got excited there for a second.
Metalmurphy
Member
Can't you have a paypal account without a billing address?
slaughterking
Member
Which is definitely breaking the law, but that's a different story because most eBay sellers are either in Hong Kong or simply don't care (and risk a warning).
On PSN it would be Sony who are giving minors access to mature content and they seem to be very anal about that. (as opposed to Microsoft)
Sleeplessnights
Banned
I had my hopes up. 
I wish they would be more anal about that. E.g. with an age verfication system they could easily sell indexed games in Germany. But well, most sellers are to stupid to realize that (I blame Amazon.de and Steam).
There go my dreams of never having to mess around with US PSN cards anymore....
Why, Cant you change your address (to a fake US) ?
denshuu
Member
Would be kind of useful if I could use PayPal, but I haven't been able to log into that account for about 6 years now. They keep sending me emails every few months though. Yes, I know the account's still locked after the complaint I filed. Yeah, I'm sure you guys are still hard at work investigating the account.
Then again, I never really needed another middleman between myself and my debit card. I think I only ever opened the account because I needed to impulse buy something on Ebay. I have no idea why people still use that shit.
Then again, I never really needed another middleman between myself and my debit card. I think I only ever opened the account because I needed to impulse buy something on Ebay. I have no idea why people still use that shit.
Presumably Paypal won't let you change your address to somewhere that's not aligned with your bank account it's linked to, and even if it is, I use my Paypal all the time, if changing it broke some other site, it'd just be a huge hassle.
I was hoping Sony would just let you do this from any country, I don't really see why they wouldn't.
Paypal fees probably
BlackIronCount
Member
Ugh this sucks. for a second i am hoping this could made buying stuff on JP PSN easier without PSN card
slaughterking
Member
It's very intricate and inconvenient to come up with an age verification method that satisfies German law, sadly.
Metalmurphy
Member
What?
Haha, I guess so. The youth protection law really is too strict.
But if they wanted they could use e.g. the new personal ids or postident. Especially amazon needs to get rid of the stupid "please pay an extra 5 everytime you order an article rated ages 18 and up"...
Well, it's kinda off-topic, but I could rage about stupid German youth protection laws and how companies misunderstand them for hours.