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[Exuro]

Sony won't even accept my card so I have to stick to psn cards. Pretty annoying as I've never had issues with it.

 

[Chuck Norris]

If there are no PSN cards in your region couldn't you just buy a PSN code online from another region and download it there?

 

[dubq]

Sony won't even accept my card so I have to stick to psn cards. Pretty annoying as I've never had issues with it.

Does it say that the info doesn't match the number? I was getting this forever and finally found out that taking out any symbols (ie: hypens/dashes) did the trick. My apt # and street number were hypenated, but taking out the dash fixed the error! ie: 505-18 Street Name changed to 505 18 Street Name.

 

[DISSESHOWEDO]

Last night I remembered that I had not yet bought the Mass Effect 3 that is on sale until today. Holy crap, last hours to buy them, so I needed to add funds to my account.

Not a US accout, and here there are no PSN Cards avaliable for the region, and no credit card now so all I can use is PayPal. Luckily I had some bucks left in my account to add funds, and I tried.

Shocking, I can't now. It asks for a credit card linked with the PayPal. So I was fucked, I have been able to add funds without using a credit card with PayPal before, why not now? And, why would I need to use PayPal with a credit card, if I can just use the credit card quickly with PSN ?


So fuck us, there are no PSN Cards, can't use PayPal, you can only use a Credit Card. And no, Sony, you are not to be trusted with those details.


Finally, I had to create a US account and buy a PSN card to buy the DLC. Great, now they are in a different account and not mine.

Rant over, Sony is pretty shitty with this, it's like they don't even want my money. I understand Microsoft isn't like this. In fact they have prepaid cards for different regions, so everything is easier. I am buying a 3DS now, is adding funds on the eShop as painful, specially via PayPal?

OP I'm with an UK account and always use my home country Visa electron debit card with no issue, even my billing info is my home country's one except the country!

 

[Serpens007]

No prepaid, no PSN? What? I'm from Chile, and this post is bullshit. There are plenty of stores and e-stores that sell psn for the region.

I would like you to tell me which ones, because I haven't find any. Only PS Plus codes for the Chilean region.

If there are no PSN cards in your region couldn't you just buy a PSN code online from another region and download it there?

No, I tried with a US $20 Code and it didn't work. Which is bullshit, since the game vouchers do work (I once bought a US TLOUR code from a gaffer and it did work)

 

[Elvin Atombender]

On another side Sony must really not want my credit card since PSN will never accept my banking information even when it is 100% accurate. Have to put money in my wallet via paypal on the web-store in-order to buy anything off PSN.

I got my current card at the end of 2013 and it has worked on PSN since then without problems and I've probably made 20-30 transactions.

I was going to buy The Witness when it was released but my card suddenly didn't work anymore. I haven't touched any information since I first entered the card. Last week PS+ was up for automatic renewal but that failed as well because the transaction didn't work.

The card works just fine everywhere else. It's completely baffling.

 

[onQ123]

Maybe it has something to do with this.

PayPal blocks VPN, SmartDNS provider’s payments over copyright concerns
PayPal cuts off UnoTelly, which touts geo-blocking circumvention to customers.

PayPal has stopped accepting payments for Canadian outfit UnoTelly—a provider of VPN and SmartDNS services—because these might be used to facilitate copyright infringement.

UnoTelly said in an update on its website that Paypal had "severed payment processing agreement unilaterally and without prior warning." It added: "Paypal indicated that UnoTelly is not allowed to provide services that enable open and unrestricted Internet access."

Ars sought comment from PayPal on this story, however, it had not immediately got back to us at time of publication. We'll update this story, if the online payments giant does get in touch.

UnoTelly told its customers that it had no control over PayPal's decision, and apologised for the inconvenience.

PayPal wrote in an email, seen by TorrentFreak: "Under the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction."

UnoTelly told the blog: "We are disappointed at PayPal’s unilateral action and the way it acted without prior warning. We provide both DNS resolution and secure VPN services. Our services are network relays that connect people around the world."

However, its website also points out that its SmartDNS service "removes geo-blocks imposed by streaming sites and allows you to watch geo-restricted channels regardless of where you live,"—a method that copyright holders have been fighting against.

The larger problem is that all VPN services can be used to circumvent geo-blocking, which would arguably fall foul of PayPal's ban on anything that "avoids, bypasses, removes, deactivates or impairs a technological measure without the authority of the copyright owner." In the past, PayPal has cracked down on BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers, and file-hosting services. So VPNs might be next.



PayPal is widely used around the world—it currently claims 179 million users—so the withdrawal of its services can have serious negative consequences for a company, or a non-profit organisation. Sometimes that has been done intentionally, as in the case of WikiLeaks, but frequently as a result of an error, for example, when the funds of crowdfunded projects like MailPile, and ProtonMail were blocked.

The rise of Bitcoin and other digital currencies suggest that alternative mass-market payment systems may evolve at some point. However, the fact that UnoTelly—in the immediate future, at least—will not be offering any replacement for PayPal, other than credit cards, highlights the extent to which the world of online payments can be something of a monoculture, which can be a tough market for all sorts of different providers.

http://www.slashgear.com/paypal-gives-netflix-an-assist-by-cutting-off-vpn-provider-05425777/

Paypal gives Netflix an assist by cutting off VPN provider


We know that Netflix has started blocking users from utilizing VPN connections to bypass their regional restrictions. While this is mostly a futile effort on their part, it's most likely about appeasing studios than restricting users. But now it seems that they're actually getting some help from an unlikely source.


Since VPN providers can easily obtain and use new IP addresses, simply blocking the IP addresses they use is a futile game of cat-and-mouse. However, what happens when those same VPN providers aren't able to accept money from their customers? That's an issue that at least one company is facing.

UnoTelly is a company that provides VPN and SmartDNS services to their customers. There are many reasons why a person would need to use these types of services. But since it can be used to circumvent regional restrictions on services like Netflix, Paypal has stepped in and cut them off.

Earlier this week Paypal sent UnoTelly an email stating the following: "Under the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction."

What's interesting here is that literally every single VPN provider can be used for this purpose. That's simply the nature of how a VPN connection works, and Paypal is saying that they won't conduct business with VPN providers. So far this is the first and only case that I've seen where Paypal has cut off a company that provides VPN services, so it's possible that they will realize that these companies offer a legitimate service that many people use for a variety of perfectly legal reasons.

While I can't imagine that Netflix asked Paypal to start cracking down on VPN providers, it does prove advantageous to the company. However, there are plenty of ways that a company can accept cash, besides using Paypal. Here's hoping that Paypal changes their mind before they start cutting off more legitimate businesses.

 

[brianjones]

for some reason certain things dont allow paypal payment

i bought the mass effect trilogy through paypal but the dlc needed a credit card

and yeah 1 of my credit cards just doesn't work for some reason.. its probably some stupid issue with the apartment or whatever