PJ
Jan 24, 2007, 04:15 PM
For being too clever for my naiveness on money
So, here's a bit of a story. December 15 (Or around there), 2006, I get online PSU. I r happy and excited. Snickerman tries continuesly to get his card to work. We try it for maybe 3 days. Then he emails them. He gets an email back. "The billing address is banned for cheating."
See, that little nasty tidbit comes from when him and me were done playing PSO:BB, and he had given his account to Corey until it ran out. Corey does teh hax, gets that account banned, they ban billing address. It was funny for them at the time, now really frustrating (He knows it was a dumb thing to do, but who would have thunk that it'd affect it? It's not like we can see the future, and we're both naive on Sega's actual banning measures). He tries to email them, trying some bullshit about how he didn't cheat at all and that it's he'd like to be unbanned (Bullshit for the fact that, although he didn't cheat, it was his account). Instead of replying, they blocked his email.
So, frustrated, try to get a plan. Try to get Gaz to pay for now, can't remember if he couldn't or his card wouldn't work for a US account. Tried to see if my friends brother had a card. That never flew, cause he was too lazy to ask (After the point of course, he DID find out he didn't have one). Asking my parents was out of the question. When I was finally bugged enough to do it, my dad's credit card was already maxxed out (Which, another fear for another rant, doesn't bode well).
Then it seems, we've found salvation; a Prepaid Credit Card! Tada! Finally happy that we've found a solution, Snickerman applies in my name (And sends it to my house, for a billing address that's not banned). The deal was, I'd hold, he'd pay, and it'd all be good.
2 weeks later the card doesn't come. He finds out, what wasn't mentioned before, was that they needed ID. So I sent him some ID he could send to them, then it was good to go. A week after they sent it out, it gets here. Yes, I have this prepaid credit card on me. And it DOES work for paying for PSU; the only problem we had was, "Insufficient funds." There was only $10 on the card apparently.
So, well, easy enough, Snickerman goes to the site to reload the card. Apparently, transaction would take 24-48 hours. So, we decide, "Yay, tomorrow [in respect, today] awesome PSU!"
So, he messages me when I get home, something about the reloading online not working, and it having to be done at a merchant (I don't understand, if there was the option of loading the card off the internet, why can't it work? Anyways), so he gives me a long distance number to call to find a merchant near me. So I call them up. Apparently, there are NO more reloading centers anymore, and can only be done through either mail order*** or bank transaction.
***I'm being optimistic with the mail order thing. Cause I THOUGHT I heard her say that, and I have no idea.
Now, the bank thing. "Alright, I can just go to my bank and get that done."
"We work with everybank. Except CIBC."
What bank do I use? CIBC. I don't even know why I use CIBC, worst bank in the world, always pick a fight over the dumbest things, terrible interest, etc. but that's yet ANOTHER rant for another day
So basically, this is a long, VERY long winded way of saying, paying for PSU by credit card is very frustrating.
So, here's a bit of a story. December 15 (Or around there), 2006, I get online PSU. I r happy and excited. Snickerman tries continuesly to get his card to work. We try it for maybe 3 days. Then he emails them. He gets an email back. "The billing address is banned for cheating."
See, that little nasty tidbit comes from when him and me were done playing PSO:BB, and he had given his account to Corey until it ran out. Corey does teh hax, gets that account banned, they ban billing address. It was funny for them at the time, now really frustrating (He knows it was a dumb thing to do, but who would have thunk that it'd affect it? It's not like we can see the future, and we're both naive on Sega's actual banning measures). He tries to email them, trying some bullshit about how he didn't cheat at all and that it's he'd like to be unbanned (Bullshit for the fact that, although he didn't cheat, it was his account). Instead of replying, they blocked his email.
So, frustrated, try to get a plan. Try to get Gaz to pay for now, can't remember if he couldn't or his card wouldn't work for a US account. Tried to see if my friends brother had a card. That never flew, cause he was too lazy to ask (After the point of course, he DID find out he didn't have one). Asking my parents was out of the question. When I was finally bugged enough to do it, my dad's credit card was already maxxed out (Which, another fear for another rant, doesn't bode well).
Then it seems, we've found salvation; a Prepaid Credit Card! Tada! Finally happy that we've found a solution, Snickerman applies in my name (And sends it to my house, for a billing address that's not banned). The deal was, I'd hold, he'd pay, and it'd all be good.
2 weeks later the card doesn't come. He finds out, what wasn't mentioned before, was that they needed ID. So I sent him some ID he could send to them, then it was good to go. A week after they sent it out, it gets here. Yes, I have this prepaid credit card on me. And it DOES work for paying for PSU; the only problem we had was, "Insufficient funds." There was only $10 on the card apparently.
So, well, easy enough, Snickerman goes to the site to reload the card. Apparently, transaction would take 24-48 hours. So, we decide, "Yay, tomorrow [in respect, today] awesome PSU!"
So, he messages me when I get home, something about the reloading online not working, and it having to be done at a merchant (I don't understand, if there was the option of loading the card off the internet, why can't it work? Anyways), so he gives me a long distance number to call to find a merchant near me. So I call them up. Apparently, there are NO more reloading centers anymore, and can only be done through either mail order*** or bank transaction.
***I'm being optimistic with the mail order thing. Cause I THOUGHT I heard her say that, and I have no idea.
Now, the bank thing. "Alright, I can just go to my bank and get that done."
"We work with everybank. Except CIBC."
What bank do I use? CIBC. I don't even know why I use CIBC, worst bank in the world, always pick a fight over the dumbest things, terrible interest, etc. but that's yet ANOTHER rant for another day
So basically, this is a long, VERY long winded way of saying, paying for PSU by credit card is very frustrating.