Will LL Accept A Debit Card As Payment

[Midnight Demonge]

Hello, I've recently considered upgrading my account to premium and have a paypal account which is verified with a legitimate banking account and have been told that I have to also have a secondary instant payment method on file with paypal to use paypal for upgrading an account. Well after a facepalm moment, since the answer I got in return on my ticket which informed me of this keeps referring to a credit card which I do not possess and stated this plainly in my ticket, I decided to ask if anyone knew if LL accepts Debit cards as a payment method under the "credit card" option. I am in a bit of a hurry at the moment so I hope this made sense.

Midnight Demonge

[Unklebob Hotaling]

yes debit cards should work... but if you want a speedy reply straight from the source this is the exact thing LL Billing deals with and it's just a phone call:

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[Midnight Demonge]

Thank you for that information. I called, they said that they can't guarantee that it will work, but I've put the information in and we'll see if it takes in about an hour.

[Unklebob Hotaling]

my pleasure  *bows*

The help doesn't stop there though.

Let's say worse case senario... this debit card attempt fails, and for w/e reason you don't want to use your real creditcard info online.  Visa giftcards are unsupported by LL and don't work - last I heard.  However Mastercard VanillaCards (also prepaid giftcards) are not supported but do work as payment method... indeed they are what I use.  They are widely available (ie i get mine from my local 7-11 or any cheque cashing place) and can be purchased in denominations of $25, $50 or $100 and used anywhere any other creditcard is including online.  If that ends up being an option you use just give me a shout for addition info as the need arises.

Best of luck.

[Irene Muni]

Midnight.Demonge wrote:

 

... I called, they said that they can't guarantee that it will work ....

Great answer, 10 points for Billing Team

[Henry Darkthief]

I don't know who told you that you need a second payment method with PayPal, I don't, never needed one.

I upgraded to Premium with PayPal alone.

Since then, I have been trying to add a MC reloadable card to my LL and my PayPal accounts, but things are still sitting at the processing confirmation and verification stage

[Salvador Nakamura]

judging by the last post things might have changed ?

 

but i used the "wirecard" which is a virtual mastercard and works like a debit-card, they also have a "wirecard" island in sl where you could go for some quick support or questions

[Henry Darkthief]

Salvador.Nakamura wrote:

 

judging by the last post things might have changed ?

 

Nope, nothing's changed, just had an extra $20 that I could afford to tie up while things resolve and settle down. I want to see if this particular reloadable card (MasterCard Freedom) will be acceptable to LL and PayPal. If so, it would remove the 8day waiting period that it takes for funds to transfer from my bank to PayPal.

If it works out, great, waiting period eliminated.

If it doesn't work out, oh well, lessoned learned and all it cost me was lack of access to $20 for a week or two.

[Unklebob Hotaling]

"I don't know who told you that you need a second payment method with PayPal, I don't, never needed one."

Nor did I, it is an either/or thing... paypal is my default method of payment unless I change it to a card, if upon doing so eliminate the card as my payment method... i still have a payment method, that being paypal.

[Salvador Nakamura]

im pretty sure that when i joined in Jan-2007 a creditcard was the only way to get premium ?

*sidenote i also changed the payment method to paypal (*early last year i think)