Trying to pay through PayPal doesn't help. What do?

12 years ago*

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Just contact their support they might have an answer

12 years ago
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This, always contact support with stuff like this, its what there there for.

12 years ago
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If you want to keep your sanity, don't contact GreenManGaming support. Their British support staff are beyond incompetent. I have had more coherent exchanges with people who wrote every second word in their native language, than with GMG support.

12 years ago
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I've always pay with paypal never had problems, make sure you have founds, or your limit isn't reached yet, also you can try later can be a Paypal/GMG issues.

12 years ago
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Get more moneysss!

12 years ago
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I know a problem common is your credit card company thinks GMG is a "Gambling site"

not sure about paypal though

12 years ago
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This. I run into this there a lot.

12 years ago
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You're fucked, end of, no chance you are ever going to be able to buy from GMG, because they are too fucktarded to do anything about it. I am sorry for your loss of mediocre sales.

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+1
their support sux. same problem few months....they are too stupid to resolve this issue.... And their web page is technicaly sux too. I hope they will make a new system soon. (no gift option sux too).

12 years ago
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Their sales are not mediocre. They have good things from time to time.

12 years ago
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Gods and Kings alone pretty much disproves the "mediocre sales" argument.

12 years ago
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Indeed. The main problem is that stupid, we won't let you buy more than one copy policy...

12 years ago
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It's probably the only reason they can afford to offer such sales. And still, buying 9 copies on Steam and one from GMG is still cheaper than buying ten copies from Steam.

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It's very mediocre, if you can't buy the sale now, isn't it? They will occaisonally have good prices, but quite frankly, if they have shit customer service, and you can't buy it, I don't give a shit. I hate to be so blunt, but it's not even worth trying, you won't get it fixed, as they refuse to accept that the problem is to do with then, and will blame your bank instead.

12 years ago
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Bad support does not make the sale itself mediocre. The site can be mediocre but the sale can still be amazing, even if you can't actually get the sale.

12 years ago
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Okay, I'm not saying this particular offer is mediocre. I'm saying that on average, they're mediocre sales from the site, and just constantly have vouchers instead...which means that even if you get compensation from support? You will get more discounts from the actual public ones, than any compensation they will EVER give you.

12 years ago
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+1. By now there should be plenty of data to isolate the problem and fix it. Instead, they keep blaming the banks and credit card companies. Very unprofessional.

11 years ago
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They sure are dumb. Every time I bought something from there, I used a temporary card made from my VISA Electron, which works exactly the same as a regular credit card, though I have to create a new temporary card every time I want to make a purchase. And I bought around... let's say, 6 games, at greenmangaming, when I contacted support after I got the problem in question, they said there were "inconsistencies" in my payments, I asked if it was cause of the system I used, the temporary cards, which they answered with "we don't accept temporary cards"... might have been me who didn't manage to explain it properly, but to just give that type of answer without trying to figure out what the client's problem fully is... just plain dumb. Although! I've had this problem once before and right after contacting support, they answered me saying the problem was fixed and I managed to buy Arkham City at the time. Dunno why they were retarded this time, but I marked the last case with a non-helpful and put in the description "I won't bother explaining how my payment methods work, if you won't even try to understand it.

Eidt: sorry for the wall of text, just had to make a point on how dumb they are

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I agree with you that this is annoying, but I don't think it is really GMG's fault. It seems to be more the credit card and banking institutions fault for flagging them as a disreputable vendor erroneously.

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but as I said, I managed to buy a couple games there, probably I can buy more, but I don't feel like trying/there's nothing interesting on sale there

12 years ago
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No, this isn't it. I called my credit card company, and they don't even have a record of the transaction. This is 100% on the GMG side.

11 years ago
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few answers from them for same issue:

Hi,

Thank you for your ticket. SOrry to hear that you are still unable to make a purchase. Can you confirm your operating system for me please? Some of our customers who are using Windows 7 or WIndows 8 have reported similar problems where they have been unable to order.

Kind regards,
Green Man Gaming
Customer Service

Hi,

Thank you for your email.

We have checked your account and are confused why you are not able to order.

May we suggest that you try the following

  • Clear your cache and cookies
  • Select cancel order in your basket
  • Select a Chrome Incognito browser
  • Switch off AdBlockers and utility programs
  • Make sure you do not have pop-ups blocked

If you are still facing difficulties please send us another email.

Kind regards,
Green Man Gaming
Customer Service

12 years ago
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None of these fixed it.

12 years ago
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I think with paypal and GMG, you need to have the same email address for both for it to work.

12 years ago
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This, had problems with them too until I changed it.

12 years ago
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This wasn't the problem. Everything was fine up until it was time for money to get from Point A to Point B. Then I got the warning about the transaction being denied and the whole gambling thing.

12 years ago
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I have different account email and paypal email addresses and I have never had a problem.

12 years ago
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Why don't you try posting on android developer forum or playstation network or quakenet irc chat or send an sms to your friend?

12 years ago
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Nobody on Neopets or at the local pub had any idea

12 years ago
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just dont use paypal and it works fine

12 years ago
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I used the card itself at first and it was still denied.

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had the same problem, contacted support (took them 4 days to reply), they said it was my fault.

Lo and behold, it works now.

12 years ago
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If I wait four days the Gods and Kings sale will expire

12 years ago
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Yep. Welcome to GMG!

12 years ago
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and what a problem was there ?

12 years ago
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Im not sure, but they fixed it somehow because before that email, i had tried to buy a bunch from them. Tried this morning to get G&K. Worked.

12 years ago
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Great customer service ... denying while fixing a known problem in the background.

I've also submitted a ticket. Didn't accept my credit card either. I called my credit card company, and they said they haven't seen any record of a transaction, so I'm assuming all of this is on the GMG side. They really need to get their shit together.

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I used to have the same problem. I know this sounds silly, but are you sure your account is all verified? Barring that, sometimes you have to call your credit/debit card provider and clear it, especially if you aren't European as GMG has been known to get confused for fraud and cards get suspended.

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GMG is a European site? That could actually explain it.

12 years ago
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Make sure you have adblock or similar extensions turned off. I also had problems with Google screenwise (when it was active) preventing my purchases.

12 years ago
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give them ur family

12 years ago
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There are tons of people with problems on their forum. http://forums.greenmangaming.com/topic/3958/?page=2 there must be some big problem with their system.

http://forums.greenmangaming.com/topic/3990/

12 years ago
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when does the sale end?

12 years ago
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So I guess the problem is that online banking/money institutions think it's a suspicious international site and/or a gambling site? I had a visa giftcard I wanted to use to get Shogun 2 when it was on sale with the coupon but of course it didn't work :(

12 years ago
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I tried to make 2 purchases back-to-back once... first was fine, the 2nd one wouldn't work... had to switch between Credit Card and Paypal.

11 years ago
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This happened to me the other day. I had to call my credit card company and get them to unlock my card. They thought that it was a fraudulent purchase so you might want to try the same thing.

11 years ago
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I had just the same thing on my PC. Tried to pay both with visa and paypal. And both of them didn't work.

Tried to pay on my laptop - worked from the first time with Paypal.

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Closed 11 years ago by Fenrakk101.