Payment Options - What's the deal?

[Darth Valium]

Here the first message from valve:

From: EVIL9000 [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 4:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: please add payment options like paypal


Will creditcard be the only way to pay for the gold package? or will you add more payment options, like paypal. I personally don't have a creditcard, and I know alot of people that don't live in the us that havent got one either.

I do use paypal alot to pay for my hosting, and I find it a great service to pay overseas
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Yes, we are working to add more payment options.

and here the second.

Response (PatrickMc) 10/14/2004 11:56 AM
Hello,

We do not plan on offering any additional payment methods at this time. You will have to wait and purchase the game in retail.


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Customer (SwissError) 10/11/2004 01:28 PM
Hi there.

Unfortunatedly I don't have a credit card which is my own and my sister doesn't want to give it to me

Now I'm interessted in the other payment option which will follow. Can you tell me which payment otion you plan to add?

cc's aren't as common in the eu as they are in the us, and getting a visa-(data-collector-)card just for the reason to upgrad hl2 seems to be overdosed. which "source" is now the trustworthy one?

 

[Mr-Fusion]

I think the second one is from Valve "support". They're not very trustworthy. They sent me an email telling me Dod:S would only be available with the gold package though it's also listed in the silver package.