Click and Buy and Crysta? Garbage, SE

[Sojiro]

When I initially set up my account at launch I opted for the Click and Buy method, but also heard about their shortcomings afterward. This time I chose the crysta option but would still prefer to directly pay to SE like I did with Blizzard back when I played WoW. I'm sure i'll get some hate on this, but I was one that never minded POL, and given what we have now as payment options, I would have no issues going back to that.

[Enri]

I find it extremely disturbing that , for once, my shitty excuse of a country (Argentina) actually has soemthing good online.

Hello! I'm from Argentina (South America) too, but i don't understand how is that you can use PayPal. Ever since I started playing this game (one year ago) the only option I have is Click & Die payment method.
When I log in my account I have no way to add Crysta on my account via Paypal payment and, of course, I can't directly use my VISA credit card.
First of, registering at Click&Die was a pain because they didn't accept my adress. After that, when i tried to verify my account it got blocked and I tried to call Support several times with no response and E-mailed them in english and spanish twice with no response.
I live in a shitty country and SE doesn't make it very easy for me to pay them with more shitty payment methods.

[Zezlar]

"you can ONLY buy even amounts of Crysta while the billing service is an uneven amount of money."

I used Ultimate Pay (VERY easy, and friendly too use compared to C&B). I bought 795 Crysta as I had some left over from my FFXI Crysta purchases. Took me about 20 seconds. No reason to complain really.

Also, I don't mean to be an ass, but if you can't figure out this process when they posted a guide how to do it on the lodestone. I don't believe for a second you're in college or filled out a FAFSA.

[ninesunz]

I have to admit it took me awhile to figure out the CC/paypal option was WITHIN ultimate pay. I do not expect a service fee for using ultimate pay (i did not see a disclosure). I'd be surprised if I get hit with a fee - and i'd have to rethink paying for this game service...

[Big-Beach]

Enri: the Paypal option appears to be available to people who pay via "UltimatePay" only. Click and Buy does not have Paypal as a payment method, despite being "one of the European market leaders for online payments." No, it does not take a degree to register and make purchases, but it is tedious. With online purchases, each additional step could potentially cost a company a percentage of their customers. SE needed to outsource their accounts and billing services and these two, with their international reach, fit the bill.

Snippets from the Click and Buy website:

ClickandBuy makes Internet payments easy! For 8 years, our innovative Internet billing system ClickandBuy has been one of the established market leaders in Germany. Just register and you can simply and securely pay 14,000merchants around the world. Among the merchants are Stiftung Warentest, RTL, n-tv, Tomorrow Focus AG, bild.t-online.de, Spiegel.net AG, Playboy, Financial Times Deutschland and UNICEF.

Only the Financial Times keeps the world in balance. (until it takes an arrow to the knee)

As for cancellation:

Do I have to cancel ClickandBuy?

Cancellation is not required

As a user, you are not required to cancel expressly, since you incur no charges or other obligations to ClickandBuy. All you need to do is simply stop using the system.

If you want to cancel your membership, just send us an email, indicating your customer number.

It's easy guys; just stop using the system!

As for UltimatePlay, provided by PlaySpan®:

On March 1, 2011, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) acquired Playspan Inc. Media inquiries may be directed to globalmedia@visa.com; investor relations questions may be directed to ir@visa.com.

Wait, what? The credit card company that owns the company and offers itself as a payment method? Fabulous! That's probably one of the reasons why Paypal is acceptable on UltimatePay (would you want to be on Visa's bad side?) and not Click and Buy.

It's a commercial world, friends. We're just numbers.

[Glaurung]

Im in argentina (thats in south america..OUTSIDE of the us) and I could use click and buy just fine...but dropped it ocne I discovered I could use paypal to buy crysta.

You must be doing soemthing wrong

Are you registered as living in Argentina in your Account, cuz i'm from Chile and i only have Click and buy shit...doesnt let me buy Crysta...and it shouldnt be so different Chile from Argentina!

[Biggs]

OP, you had me feeling for you for about 2 sentances, then I glanced to the left side of my screen and saw your character name. Then I realized It was time to stop reading after those 2 sentances, because I could no longr take anything you say seriously.

But its MUCH easier to take someone in a reindeer costume playing an online fantasy game as elf seriously? Grow up man, really? Your splitting hairs. The crysta system is a joke, and if people think paypal is a secure way to manage their bills, they are fooling themselves. That shit gets hacked all the time.
Their billing system is just as halfassed as the condition this game was in at release.

[Enri]

Im in argentina (thats in south america..OUTSIDE of the us) and I could use click and buy just fine...but dropped it ocne I discovered I could use paypal to buy crysta.

You must be doing soemthing wrong

I can't add Crysta in my account, how is that you can?
I only have Click&Buy as payment method and Ultimate Pay doesn't exist.
You only said that you are in Argentina, but did you make your registration with Argentina as country?

[Kailea_Nagisa]

these are some intersting things people are still saying, since most are now, not even true....

you can charge a specific amount of crysta now, so you can buy 999 and not 1000
I used paypal and Ultimate buy, and was only charged the $10 I spent buying 1k crysta

[Zeref]

I was under impression you can have your account paid automatically through click and buy without having to purchase crysta with it :/