Question about Continuous payment and crysta

[Nynja]

I'm def not paying for no crysta, and I'm not using no shady click & buy...so if you want my money, set it up like you set it up for the JP...straight from CC.

[Romanova]

Sorry but I'm really, really confused... from what I've been reading I formulated the idea you could use Paypal to buy Crysta. Now, I'm in Europe (Portugal, if it matters) and want to select Crysta as the selected method. While transfering my account I decided I'd buy some Crysta just in case before I did so. I selected "Add crysta", chose the 20€ option and then I can only pick between ClicknBuy and Ultimate Pay. Question is, "How can I buy crysta with Paypal?"
Sorry if it's been asked before, but I really can't sort the mess in my head alone.

one you get to that screen where it says ultimate pay or click and buy, select ultimate pay. From there you should see options to buy crysta via paypal, gamecard, etc.

[Kristal]

Crysta has another obscure catch: it expires. If you don't spent it within a year, you lose it all.

[Romanova]

Crysta has another obscure catch: it expires. If you don't spent it within a year, you lose it all.

it's 2 years, not one. But ya.

[Nianny]

one you get to that screen where it says ultimate pay or click and buy, select ultimate pay. From there you should see options to buy crysta via paypal, gamecard, etc.

Got it, thanks. Finally got it sorted... geez. :/

[SHJcules]

well, I just bought a few k crysta. Took me ~3 mins to set up and confirm.

Kind of an annoyance, and it is ~3 minutes more than it used to take me to pay for XI, but is it really worth all this rage quitting?

Personally, I'd rather my CC info be shared between my bank and a specialized payment company than an entertainment/game company. Does clickandbuy get hacked like every month or something? everyone says they are shady, if there is actually evidence to this than I will be worried. But it seems legit to me.

[mistmonster]

Well a Chase Bank card rep TOLD me tell were shady. I don't feel like typing my CBS again but here it is cut and pasted from the other thread. Someone else posted that AMEX did the same thing.

"and for something I do know personally. I did not know about clickandbuy when I set it up for FFXIV and when they temporarily charged me $1.00 (which is normal) my credit card security dept went crazy. Froze my credit card, got an automated call to find out if I authorized the charge which I did. Then like an hour later a person from the credit card called me to ask if I knew what I was getting into. Said that they would probably freeze the card every time. "

[SHJcules]

thanks for that heads-up mistmonster. I hope that is just a very isolated incident, but regardless I think I will have to do some research on this company lol

I remember I set up clickandbuy when I made an SE account for XIV, but I haven't really had to use it at all so wasn't sure about them. But I generally trust SE security and don't think they would risk ruining their reputation by sending us to bad companies.

[Romanova]

Same as mist for me, when I tried to set up C&B last year for 14, they kept spamming my card for the "authorization" money. iirc they're only supposed to do 2 (?) amounts but they did like 5 or 6 (it's been a year so I don't remember the exact amounts). Chase blocked it, and when I called them they said that their system was saying it was still trying to spam amounts past the 5 or 6 (sounds like the authorization program was stuck in a loop or something). They then said that C&B was a red flagged company and that they try to block any transactions coming from them and I probably shouldn't use it.

I then had to fight with a C&B rep who definitely didn't want to spend 10 seconds helping me, to get my money refunded and my account cancelled through them.

So ya I can verify what mist said in that Chase doesn't trust them at all. And I trust Chase so no way would I touch Click and Scam again.

[Aver]

thanks for that heads-up mistmonster. I hope that is just a very isolated incident, but regardless I think I will have to do some research on this company lol

I remember I set up clickandbuy when I made an SE account for XIV, but I haven't really had to use it at all so wasn't sure about them. But I generally trust SE security and don't think they would risk ruining their reputation by sending us to bad companies.

Lol, you just used SE and security in the same sentence.

I take it you weren't around for the mass hackings prior to the introduction of token-IDs?

edit: And the complete and utter fail (on SE's behalf) that was the hacking of FList plus that got a couple of accounts stripped/sent to another server.