If you don’t own a credit card, use your debit card - the one your bank issued to you for ATM withdrawals. The card should be embossed with either a Visa or Mastercard logo, in which case it’s fine to use as a credit card for online transactions as long as you have money in your account.
Frontier Store won't allow ARX purchase using PayPal!!!!!!
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Yeah, I wasn't happy about the lack of a Paypal option either. I hate giving out my credit card information.
I've looked into services that let you create temporary cards on the fly for one time charges, or for limited re-occuring charges with one vendor. Unfortunately, all those services always want to tie back to a bank account - which I trust even less than giving out a credit card #. sigh I wish there was a service like Paypal, that you could use your actual credit cards with, and then create temporary ones linked to them. Sadly no one has done that yet.
I'm not sure what the laws are like in Europe, but in the USA I would never use a debit card for anything. If your credit card gets stolen, and you catch/report the fraudulent charges within 90 days, you're only liable for $50 (not per charge, total). If your debit card gets stolen, any money spent is gone.
So I never use a debit card and I laugh whenever the credit card companies try to get me to sign up for insurance to protect me against fraudulent charges. Yeah, I really need your $2+/month insurance charges to protect me from that $50 loss. lol
Good grief, you probably mean well but I think people are smart enough to realise whether or not they have a credit card or a debit card.
The main complaint here is that people prefer PayPal payments to credit card payments.
I will probably do this in the future. However, I've been playing so long I remember when I had to do all transactions directly with Frontier. So I guess that's why I did my last purchase that way.
Also... if you go the Frontier route, they let you choose the currency type. I think I saved $7 by buying the 50000 Arx in Pounds as the Pound to Dollar conversion was better than the dollar price for that amount of ARX.
give us more options to pay i dont get a credit card just for this rubbish!
Using Paypal all my life with no problems whatsoever..
You want money ? Get us more options ... i can only pay with a Credit Card how stupid and bad for your business
Using Paypal all my life with no problems whatsoever..
You want money ? Get us more options ... i can only pay with a Credit Card how stupid and bad for your business
No, you can pay with the debit card your bank issues. (or, at least, I am able to pay using mine...)
I have to say I agree.
I don't like putting my bank details into websites and PayPal sort gets around this. However, I do wonder if PayPal is one of these nefarious companies who sell your data to advertisers who want to spam you and sell you stuff you don't want.
I'm buying stuff from Frontier Store with no issues, using a debit/credit card. No issues. And im in EU too - well, at its fringes, but still
Edit: most banks - at least here - give the opportunity to enable and use virtual cards so you dont have to use your physical card for online transactions
ill check that out maybe its on my end just to stupid to use it ..
Steam takes paypal...
I buy ARX from my steam wallet with steam credit purchased by paypal. Not a solution if you aren't playing on Steam, but it does exist.
EDIT skimmed too fast, didn't see @Brammmers beat me to it.
I buy ARX from my steam wallet with steam credit purchased by paypal. Not a solution if you aren't playing on Steam, but it does exist.
EDIT skimmed too fast, didn't see @Brammmers beat me to it.
Weirdly and incidentally, that other UK based space game happily takes my money via Paypal...
Paypal used to be taken by Frontier, but I think they dropped it when we left the EU...
With a debit or credit card transaction there is a capped charge to the vendor. (This charge is usually hidden, incorporated into the price; the only exception brought to mind is DVLC who will bill you the road fund licence and then add the debit card charge, or the more expensive credit card charge, separately - they they are not, theoretically, out to make a profit.)
There is another charge added on top if the payment is facilitated by PayPal or some other transactional agent, plus additional accountancy costs (small, but a thousand small transactions . . . ).
Some vendors will include any agency fees in the price, taking benefit from those who pay directly.
Somebody has to pay somewhere, so it all comes down to the vendor's pricing policy.
There is another charge added on top if the payment is facilitated by PayPal or some other transactional agent, plus additional accountancy costs (small, but a thousand small transactions . . . ).
Some vendors will include any agency fees in the price, taking benefit from those who pay directly.
Somebody has to pay somewhere, so it all comes down to the vendor's pricing policy.
Yes, but as you already stated only with a little detour via filling ones Steam wallet first, as it seems. At least in my case...
There corrected that for you
Their use of Paypal which many companies in the UK wont touch with a 10ft barge pole may be due to when they were originally Foundry 42 Ltd, but don't quote me on it.
O7
It's just an extra couple steps in the checkout process, seamlessly integrated, and you can purchase the exact amount of credit you need. It doesn't bother me.Yes, but as you already stated only with a little detour via filling ones Steam wallet first, as it seems. At least in my case...
I don't know... I can "play" in those traded ships in ways I'll never be able to on Elite. The bigger fallacy is that they're more "airplanes in space" than "space ships." At least in Elite we can turn that feature off, although with KBM and no analog control, I'm not that masochistic. They are still multinational, though; having facilities in the US might be part of why they take Paypal?