Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone

Post by smspence » Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 2:14 PM UTC

lawl wrote: post #80

antninja wrote: post #53

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All payment cards are commonly called credit cards in Europe. This requirement may be a translation error.

Well I'm from europe, so that's what I ment too. I do not have any master, maestro or visa card. And i refuse to get one, because I think they're a horribly, horribly broken system.

So you've never purchased anything from the internet before, ever? Honest question, not trying to sound snarky. I'm just wondering how else you could pay for something online. Paying directly with a checking account, by entering your routing/account numbers, etc.? There are also pre-paid debit cards out there.... but it sounds like you're opposed to that too.

Post by lawl » Wed, Apr 24, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

smspence wrote: post #91

lawl wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I'm from europe, so that's what I ment too. I do not have any master, maestro or visa card. And i refuse to get one, because I think they're a horribly, horribly broken system.

So you've never purchased anything from the internet before, ever? Honest question, not trying to sound snarky. I'm just wondering how else you could pay for something online. Paying directly with a checking account, by entering your routing/account numbers, etc.? There are also pre-paid debit cards out there.... but it sounds like you're opposed to that too.

To be honest i usually use paypal, or similar services. I'm not a paypal fan, but you know i can send them a hundred bucks or so via bank transfer and have that on my account to spend. If paypal decides to disable my account (or I get hacked or something) I lost $100, sucks, but really not the end of the world.

I'd actually probably be fine with pre-paid debit cards, but there's really no difference from paypal. And now it's just a matter of beeing more used to paypal than to some random debit card company, and i don't want to maintain multiple prepaid services, i just want to have a couple hundred dollars prepaid for "internet payment stuff".

Paypal or something else should let me generate a one time token (or one time card number) to pay with.

If you buy a gift CC at a store you run into the problem of the problem that the product costs $101 but the card is only $100.

Well, all in all, internet payment is still horribly broken, but paypal is _in my opinion_ the best service to buy stuff, not necessarily to receive money, I've heard enough horror stories.

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