Quote Originally Posted by Wildsprite View Post
it isn't SE charging extra MOL points for Crysta, its UltimatePay/Playspan. frankly I'm surprised they started accepting MOL points to begin with as they don't own them Rixty(which has some association with western union) does. it would be cheaper if SE accepted these points/cards directly
That's the point. UGC/Ultimatepay didn't incur fees like that. $20 got you a $20 card that gave you 200 Crysta...if you went to add $20 without a code, you owed them $20 and you used a CC/Paypal and gave them $20 (unless you were crossing currency which had the exchange rate stuff). Either way you were keeping with that 100 -> $1.00 model. It's C&B all over again... fee for this, fee for that crap that was never disclosed until you went to checkout (sometimes even only AFTER payment processed). It's what drove a lot of people away 3 years ago...either because they didn't want pay the effective higher rate, or simply couldn't pay.

You would think SE would have learned it's lesson back then. At the very least, put a notice/disclaimer up about it. But no... the changes just suddenly show up in the payment screen unannounced. It's like one day people will log in to pay and all of the once available one-to-one options have disappeared and we suddenly have to go from $10-13 every 30 days to ~$15... not one peep from them on the matter.