After 15 months of paying with my credit card, no problem, suddenly I get told my sub was canceled because an error occurred. This is weird because nothing has changed with my credit card, and I use it all the time elsewhere, and I've never missed a payment or anything. I went in to re-enter the credit card info, and was told an "Error 601" occurred. I tried to get support, but SE's support system is terrible. After waiting on hold in chat for several hours, I decided to go looking for what was wrong and found this thread.

Nice to know the official response is, "You must have done something wrong, it certainly isn't our fault." Amazing, that customer service.

Even though I hate Paypal for all sorts of reasons, I bought some crysta via paypal and used that to renew my sub. Of course, I forgot about my inventory rental fee, and had to try to pay that afterward. But, you can't add less than $5 of Crysta. Sounds like a scam to me... So, now SE is holding $3 of my money hostage. It's not like $3 is a lot or anything, but it's the principle of the matter. When I can pay no problem via their system that favors them, but I can't pay via other methods for mysterious reasons, that definitely raises some flags. If this happens again, I guess I'll just report it to the BBB (not that that does anything either) =\