And any idea ?

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Your prefered payment methods for buying games ?

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Bitcoin
Visa/Master card
Paypal
Webmoney
Local payment methods

paypal, so my CC details are shared less often

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^this !

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Thanks for your comment ;), Are you familiar with bitcoin ? why don't you use bitcoin ? _ if like pls answer :)

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I know bitcoin, just never invested the time to setup/mine

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You can easily buy bitcoin with your paypal-visa and etc, if you find some fantastic deals, does it cause you to abandon buying with bitcoin ?

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The problem with Bitcoin is that it's untraceable and because of that it has a bad stigma.
Plus if your Bitcoins get stolen/hacked, then you won't get any of the money back.

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Thanks for your comment ;)
About the first problem you mentioned, you are right, but it depends on where you buy!
and about the second, if you use safe/+Rep websites or softwares, you can find them easily, it's somehow impossible, i use bitcoin for years without any problem

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blockchain is public, if you send me bitcoins I can track them back to block they were mined,

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on some sites that do accept bitcoin there is sometimes a "deal" due to lower/no fees for the seller but it is rarely enough to justify adding another payment method. The benefits aren't great enough.

I also like the extra protection of a credit card (through paypal) that it isn't "my money" for another 30-45 days which provides time to resolve problems and/or refuse payment all together.

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what's your idea about one time verification that websites usually check your identity for the first purchase ?

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I do not think I have experienced this

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0 point in using bitcoins ...
Almost nowhere accept them as a valid payment methond ,

In case of fraud , you are just fuckd since there is no support , not to mention farming / buying them to begin with is a pain in the ass , and most of the times it cost more then just buying the game with cash straight away .

If you have 24/7 free time in your life , its okay i guess ... since you can follow deals and get them cheap .

If you have Actual life , just buy the games and ingore Bitcoins like the plague .

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My problem with Bitcoin that the price fluctuates a lot more than other currency and while I usually know what is the exchange rate between my home currency and USD, EUR or GBP I'd have to extra follow BTC price to know when to buy and when not. This extra effort stopped me to set up a wallet.

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Thanks for your comment ;)
You can buy as much as you need not more, so it's not needed to follow price of bitcoin

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Easily buy bitcoin with paypal? how could one accomplish such a feat without losing a considerable percentage of the money?

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As i said before, everyone can buy bitcoin as much as needed for an item not more, then there is no fear to lose your money

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How can you "easily buy bitcoins with paypal"? I'm interested.

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In spain bitcoin are no worthable, we pay a lot in electric bills (thanks that our 2 ex prime minister "works" for both electric companies, they have ship to pay!)

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Its not worthwhile almost anywhere on the planet ...
Unels you work somewhere with many PCs and set farms on them running on the background , its just not worthwile investment .

Electricity is relatively cheap compared to most of Eu where i live .... and its Still just not worth farming it .

If i set my both PCs 24/7 i will prolyl get ~ 60-100 $ worth of coins for a MONTH , and farming them will cost me 75+$ ... so for a Minor profit , making the PCs unusable ? nah ...

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My biggest concern with bitcoin is the hugely variable exchange rate. Buy $20 worth of bitcoin and it could be worth half that or twice that a week later.

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Also you can refund and scam the merchant if you want to. What a great opportunity!

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Is that supposed to be a joke? Because PayPal shares tons of your personal information, including your credit card details.

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so much this

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On Steam and Indiegala I use Paysafe cards and on HumbleBundle and Bundlestars I use my Visa card.
I don't have Paypal though.

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I think Paysafe cards fee are high!

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I used to prefer paypal but their customer support is abysmal and I eventually gave up on them after too many problems which were never resolved so nowdays I prefer to pay directly with my debit card

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I don't like paypal too :) i understand you ;)

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I don't have Paypal in my country so I use a credit card.

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Thanks for your comment,
what's your idea about one time verification that websites usually check your identity for the first purchase ?

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Steam Wallet codes outside of steam Paypal.

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Thanks for your comment

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VISA Virtuon.

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The usual

Government bonds
Mortgage
Precious metals
etc.

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I usually pay it with Oil or Diamond ... tho i like to find new payment methods avaliable .

have you considered Selling your soul to Satan ?

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Selling my soul to Satan was the first thing I did. That's where I got all the government bonds, mortgages and precious metals from to spend on games!

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What are those ?

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Sorry, I wasn't being serious with those ridiculous examples, it was meant to be a silly joke.

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Blood, Teeth, Hair, other fluids... you see where I'm goin' with this. =p

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ppl still use bitcoins o.0 ?

OT i just use my credit card , tho i just buy games on steam or Humble .

I had MASSIVE issue with paypal , where they could not confirm my card for 3 MONTHS , i had to send them pictures of my ID , had to send them an ACTUAL hand written letter , and had to w8 for a letter in return ....
So fuck paypal ...

Also after my card expired , they couldnt just auto add the New card which had the same number just new expiry date ... NO .

ID Picture and Fucking Letter again .

And over that process i got charged ~ 10 times Random amounts of cash , resulting in my card being suspended by my bank 3 times ...

As for Bitcoins ... thats for ppl with way to much free time . or hackers :)
You cannot sufficiently farm bitcoins on a single PC , thats a fact ... as for buying them ... way to many fraudent sites , 0 Support ... not worth the risk

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Pls calm down and revise your comment "so f*** paypal !
there is no need to mine you can buy needed bitcoin with credit card and etc and in this way there won't be any more problem!

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It still cost more to buy the coins and then pay with them to...

Like if u have the money and credit card to do so , why not just buy the game instead....

Also not sure what part of my comment you want me to revise?

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No Paypal in my country so I use a Visa debit card to buy games. I sometimes use Bitcoin to buy games but not all sites accept bitcoin.

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[free]

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THIS :D

Best way !

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Trading on steam and getting keys and steam wallet this way. :P

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:D

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for me Paypal is the best payment method ;)

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Thanks for your comment

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your welcome. it's good to help :)

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Mastercard race :D

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Thanks for your comment ;)

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CC through PayPal. Less sharing of information and multiple layers of protection. Easy peasy.

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Thanks for your comment ;)

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Steam wallet.

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the best option on steam :)

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For FREE!!!

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Twitch ?! what a good contractor :D

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Paysafecard :) Basically a prepaid-code you can get from local dairys or fuel stations.

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"Local Dairys"?...they must really like Milk and Cheese where you live.

Anyway I use PayPal a lot I use it with my Debit Card but I should switch to my CC instead; I also just signed up and use Skrill this week....as far as I can tell it had a lower initial payment fee but is cost money to withdraw my money (making it a lot worse that Paypal), but I am new to Skrill so could be wrong.

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woops, sorry, my translator lied to me. not "dairys", but kiosk

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You mean you buy physical copies by cash?

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:D

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Monopoly (steam) money from profitz™ ^_^ You can also turn it into gems/keys and trade it for bundles from ig/hb/groupees/etc (ofc there is some kind of overpay, but considering that I need real money to feed my piggy bank, I m totally fine with it).
On the other side, when there is a good deal for real money (there is big overpay for steam wallet), in that case - debit card via paypal, or via amazon as payment processors (I don't like typing digits from card every -or any- time)

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฿ ฿ ฿

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Thanks for your comment,
what's your idea about one time verification that websites usually check your identity for the first purchase ?

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Credit card through Paypal for a very long time now and never had any problems.

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Thanks for your comment,
what's your idea about one time verification that websites usually check your identity for the first purchase ?

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I voted for bitcoin. I like the whole idea of a decentralized payment method that isn't controlled by single a company or a government.
No other payment processor can handle such flexible amounts in mere seconds with fees within the fraction of a cent. Blockchain tech itself is beautiful. Using a digital currency for digital goods such as games seems very fitting. That being said, I never bought any bitcoins, because the biggest issue with bitcoin is its volatility ... price increases or declines of several hundred percent in mere weeks aren't uncommon, it's kinda risky to buy and store bitcoins and impractical and costly to buy exactly the amount you need when you need it. Also acceptance isn't great. For games I only know gamesplanet, indiegala and humblebundle who seem to accept any at all, with Humblebundle often disabling bitcoin payments for their bundles. Nevertheless I did buy quite a few games with bitcoin, because I usually have a small amount stored which I got from free sources such as faucets and advertising. It's probably not worth the time, but it's enough (especially with windfall profits from bitcoin value increases) to buy games every now and then. Buying only from reliable sellers, I've never had any problems with payments either, as they're usually handled via bitpay or coinbase, but I would imagine, if something went wrong, that'd would be another issue as all payments are final and irreversible.
So, when doing the maths I paid most of my games with paypal, even though I don't like their defacto monopoly and that - despite of their huge profits - they avoid paying taxes entirely in my country. However, you didn't ask which payment method is the one I use most, you asked which one I'd prefer ;-)

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Wouldn't using fees 'within the fraction of a cent' take longer for the transaction to confirm?

Also Groupees and DailyIndieGame take bitcoins too (never tried paying with btc atm though).

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Ah yes, right I totally forgot about Groupees. I sometimes buy music on Groupees (on those rare occasions that
they offer rock, acoustic or otherwise different music instead of the usual synthesizer stuff), but I haven't bought
any games from them yet, as their bundles usually contain too much pixel/platform/arcade/retro stuff for
my taste. Not saying that those are bad, games, I'm just not interested, same goes for DIG, while I usually
take a look at Rachel's Bundle infos here, I haven't ever bought anything from them yet.

As for bitcoin transaction fees, I think it depends mostly on blocksize, and whether you're transferring from
one wallet to another, e.g. coinbase to coinbase is usually free, otherwise the miner's fee has been well
below a cent for me usually and the transaction never took more than a few seconds. Not sure if there's a
tradeoff between speed and fees within those small amounts I usually transfer, maybe the seller's bitcoin processor
usually takes the fee. I can only speak of my experience that it's very fast and very cheap for me as a customer.

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paypal or giropay

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Thanks for your comment

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