Eve Online Game Cards in SA

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Dark_Exterminator

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Hi,
Nice to have found this site especially with all the SA Eve players here.
I just recently started playing Eve and have found that it is almost impossible to find game cards for it. I managed to find a local source right here in Centurion Pretoria.
If anyone is interested the website is http://www.rampage-gaming.co.za/
Very good service from them, I got my time code the day the electronic transfer went through.

Hope to see some of you in the game.

Regards Mike
 
You could just use PayPal and make your payments via the site at $15/month, which works out at:

15 U.S. dollars = 110.736248 South African rands

or R222/60days instead of R350... Hell, you're getting ripped off for more than a month's sub by getting those 60-day GTCs :|
Otherwise you could get a VISA/MasterCard Debit card and use that.


If you're having connection issues for the EVE site and are on a SAIX based DSL account, use cache.saix.net:8080 for all protocols while using the site's billing pages, and it should work just fine. The PayPal transaction bills it against your actual PayPal account, on the other hand, and you can (to my knowledge) use EFTs into your PayPal account to 'top it up', so that you don't need to perform a credit-card transaction on the site. You don't need to 'verify' your paypal account unless it's going to be used to sell things on, say, Ebay, either.
 
The only limitation South Africans had with PayPal was the inability to withdraw money from the PayPal account into your bank account.

All of the other PayPal functions still worked 100%. This included:

Sending money to the paypal account using a variety of payment options (notably EFT/credit/debit cards, transfers from other PayPal accounts)
Using the paypal account to pay for online products
Receiving funds for what were ultimately not considered 'products', depending on the site and its legal notices/disclaimers etc; donations being an example - internet-sales requiring account verification for anti-fraud purposes.

So the process would simply work as such:
1. Send money to the paypal account using credit/debit/eft
2. log onto EVE account management page, select to change billing method to paypal
3. select the period you want to pay for and note this message:

By selecting the “NEXT” button, you will be forwarded to the PayPal™ website where you log onto your PayPal™ account and complete the payment. Once done you will be brought back to the EVE Online account registration page where your subscription payment verification should be visible to you and your account will become active.


As such, you enter no credit card information on either the PayPal site or the EVE site, unless you have used credit/debit card to get your funds onto the PayPal account.
 
nanonyous said:
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As such, you enter no credit card information on either the PayPal site or the EVE site, unless you have used credit/debit card to get your funds onto the PayPal account.
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Sheesh, dude, excellent post! Thank you!
 
OK so apparently you need a credit card in order to validate your PayPal account before you can use it...is that true?

Seems mighty pointless then. You may as well pay with your credit card then :confused:
 
Only if you want to sell on Ebay or the like and use PayPal as the 'trusted intermediary party' for the transaction, for anti-fraud/insurance purposes.

As mentioned, all the other functions should work just fine even if you don't link any credit card to the account, unless it has changed recently.
May be worth noting that I signed up on PayPal in somewhere between 05/07, and verified my account last year so I could sell on Ebay.
 
nanonyous said:
Only if you want to sell on Ebay or the like and use PayPal as the 'trusted intermediary party' for the transaction, for anti-fraud/insurance purposes.

As mentioned, all the other functions should work just fine even if you don't link any credit card to the account, unless it has changed recently.
May be worth noting that I signed up on PayPal in somewhere between 05/07, and verified my account last year so I could sell on Ebay.
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Nope, it's asking both me and a mate to verify our accounts with credit cards before we can do anything, which is why PayPal has been so useless to us in the past and still is.
 
Strange, I'd used it for a variety of payments before activating my card... Guess they've changed things :/
I'd go try and sign up to see what's going on, but there's no new accounts we could make within the household with our existing info, and they've got a fairly strict policy against fake accounts in general...

Looking at what I can review, though, it seems that you have to confirm a bank account before it can be used to directly add funds to your account as opposed to being able to EFT directly into it.

What you can do however, that I was doing up until end 2008 or so, is send money directly to your account via your credit card without having a verified account, unless that has also changed in the past year. This obviously raises the question of 'why' you would bother doing all of this via PayPal as opposed to just directly on the EVE-O site, though.

They do still seem to accept payments from a debit card though, and to my knowledge it's possible to place limits on what companies are allowed to make transactions against your card if you're particularly worried about fraud, your CC details being stolen etc, in addition to what amounts are allowed and when.
 
Yeah, I think the point of using PayPal for most is that you're not supposed to need a credit card to use it in the first place. Of course, surprise, that is not the case here, making it rather useless for most. One may as well save oneself the trouble and make direct payments instead of using PayPal then.
 
Options to use debit cards are still available directly on the EVE site, or alternatively, via a proxy facility (like paypal) or the other two options available there with WebMoney and PayByCash.

Debit cards allow for far greater control over who can do what with your card, and can even be obtained by teenagers (not that you're meant to be paying for your account with your own card if you're younger than 18, anyway, technically).

I can understand those that want to not use credit cards for security purposes, but given the security options available when working with a debit card most of those seem to just go out the window with me. As for those that can't get a credit card because of a poor credit history, should they even be playing MMOs?

*edit* At the end of the day my primary concern is with people that are perfectly willing to spend a third more for their game time than they should need to do. If they want them for the purpose of buying isk legally, then sure, go ahead, their money to burn and such, but it just doesn't make sense to me when people do it for game time.
 
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