Billing Frustration

[RAIST]

Paypal is not continuous pay--that is for on-demand purchasing. You have to set up with C&B, GPI, or keep your Crysta account filled up in advance for any kind of continuous payment (they will notify you up to a week in advance of when billing will take place so you can add Crysta if needed). Some were having issues setting up GPI because of blocked communication during the verification phase. It was likely due to cross-site scripting--which is often disable by default--or because security software is blocking the server because the call did not originate from the user's system, but SE's server (things like software based firewalls and some routers may do this, have to whitelist the GPI server). It wasn't an issue with their cards or anything, but a communication issue because of the user's security settings/software/devices.

[detlef]

Oh yeah, I was talking about reactivating. For continuous pay I've tried both credit card and c&b and neither has allowed for uninterrupted service.

[Alhanelem]

Theoretically easy. But every month it still deactivates my characters. The only way to ensure continuous service is to keep an additional month's worth of crysta up.

I'm not talking about Crysta. There is a new, non-Click'n'Buy way to pay by credit card. Why don't you just use that?

[detlef]

That doesn't work either. Error 601.

[Dazusu]

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You need to refill your account with Crystal before the renew date. Manually. Make it easy and buy 4K Crysta, then you're good for 4 months.

[RAIST]

That doesn't work either. Error 601.

That sounds like the browser/system security problem I mentioned earlier. There was a discussion about this very problem in another thread a while back:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...yment-Options?

[Midorikaze]

SE claims to have fixed the problem with Error 601, yet I still get it when trying to switch to my Visa card (just tried again yesterday). Something's not right....

[Midorikaze]

Bumpity bump bump.

SO. Same situation as 4-01, wondering if anyone else has run into this string of events...

- Revoked access for, and closed C&B account just before the end of March, it is gone now. SE account is still locked on it as payment method.
- Been trying to switch my SE account over to Visa "direct pay" throughout the month, not too often as to cause lockouts or anything. We have tried:

- My card, on my PC: Nope. Error 601.
- Another's card on my account, which works with their account: Nope. Error 601.
- My card, on another's PC, to rule out OS issue (I have Win7 x64): Nope. Error 601.
- Note: We all have cards from the same exact bank and mine is the only one not working
- Called support on 4-25, advised to wait 24 hrs and try again, if still not working, then try Crysta.
- If Crysta purchases use the same server as the "direct pay", wouldn't I still be SOL? ^^;;
- Already have tried full cleanout of cache/cookies/disk cleanup, defrag, restarts and the like.
- Browsers used: Firefox, Chrome and IE. No pop-ups or alerts on this GPI server that I need to whitelist, so I can't let it in if it doesn't "knock on the door"

Has anyone else had these problems? ^^;

Edit: Tested Crysta method. Apparently the only ways to pay for it are C+B and Ultimate Pay? HUH?

[Blazing2011]

Why not just go to a 7-11 and buy a $20 Game Card. It's a red card they use for online games. When you go into Add Crystas once u get to select the payment choices click on "Others" it will bring up the card I am talking about. You type in the card Number and it will add the crysta usually once u refresh the page. (No credit card needed) Plus with the Visa problem for some reason numerous banks don't like Square Enix billing so they usually block them. Hope this helps and have fun gaming.

[Alhanelem]

Ultimate Pay?

UltimatePay is owned by VISA. It's perfectly safe and easy to use. You can simply enter a credit card, or you can use paypal, or you can use Ultimate Game Cards, which are sold in stores. You didn't "test" it if you didn't actually buy any. Going there and saying "oh, no way i'm using ultimate pay, a perfectly useable and safe payment method!" is not testing.

You don't need an account for it like with C&B, and there's no international BS involved.

Have you filed a ticket with SE support about the error 601? I've never gotten an error like that.