Square Enix Account Transfer Information Page(6/27/2011)

[Kirschy]

They accept cards without 3DS without doing Crysta? My understanding was that the non-Crysta option needed a 3DS card.

Works for me /w no problems~

[mistmonster]

They accept cards without 3DS without doing Crysta? My understanding was that the non-Crysta option needed a 3DS card.

Clicktobuy does. I have never owned a 3DS card ever (been updating my accounts on a PS2 to get around it all this time)

[NotGreyheim]

Admittedly have not read all 18 pages, but did anyone else get a $2.40 charge on their debit card from "CLICKANDBUY INTERNATIONAL" after transferring? It seems incredibly fishy to me.

[Gwynplaine]

Admittedly have not read all 18 pages, but did anyone else get a $2.40 charge on their debit card from "CLICKANDBUY INTERNATIONAL" after transferring? It seems incredibly fishy to me.

What country, country is your ffxi account etc?

[NotGreyheim]

Both US... Noticed it because my bank flagged it as an out of country transaction.

[Ragnus]

Ouch, sorry to see that Hari. I didn't get charges sales tax here in MA on mine from CVS. =/

[Gwynplaine]

Stuff posted by community reps on official forums, don't think ive seen it posted here yet:

We are working to add new knowledge base articles to our FINAL FANTASY XI Support Center to try and address questions we're seeing in the forums.

Will customers who pay via ClickandBuy be subject to any additional fees?


No, customers who have chosen ClickandBuy as their payment method will NOT incur any additional fees when paying for subscriptions.

However, if a customer chooses to store funds within their ClickandBuy E-Money Account (this is not required for SQUARE ENIX customers), they may incur the following fees:

Account Funding Fee
3.9% of any transaction into your ClickandBuy E-Money Account when using a credit card.
Withdrawal Handling Fee
$2.75 per withdrawal from your ClickandBuy E-Money Account
Maintenance Fee
$1.50 per month if a ClickandBuy E-Money Account has been inactive for 12 months and contains funds.

These fees can only be incurred when utilizing a ClickandBuy E-Money Account, and are not applicable to customers who only use ClickandBuy to pay for their subscriptions. For additional details on ClickandBuy E-Money Accounts, please visit the ClickandBuy website at http://clickandbuy.com/US_en/.

[mistmonster]

wow just wow
I am generally a nice person and while I'm very upset with the payment changes I tried to post an opinion on SE forums (I was polite, I didn't use any bad words or anything, I did say I was disgusted at the new policy) . I just got an e-mail:

We have determined that the post you made on 07-28-2011 14:24 (PDT) was in violation of the User Agreement policies listed below. The post was edited or deleted accordingly.

Thread Title:
"Petition: clickandbuy the only way no,thanks."

Relevant sections from the FINAL FANTASY XI Guidelines:
Posting seeking to damage or disparage Square Enix, the forum, FINAL FANTASY XI, or others.
Posting content that seeks to interfere with the running of FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Forte]

Admittedly have not read all 18 pages, but did anyone else get a $2.40 charge on their debit card from "CLICKANDBUY INTERNATIONAL" after transferring? It seems incredibly fishy to me.

...

Please read next time. As much as I don't like C&B, they say right as you are sighing up with them that they charge you a small fee that they then refund to make sure you card is valid.

[NotGreyheim]

It also says that it's 2 small fees each between $1.00 and $1.99. Neither of which show up on my bank statement yet, but I assume the warning I got would have been for 2 transactions instead of one if that were the case. Or 2 separate warnings.

Please read next time.

[Firesped]

I found some new interesting info for people worried about that extra dime you are giving SE with Crysta by going to 30 day rates. Also JP pay taxes on FFXI where most other people don't. Wish I could put that on my taxes

US
playonline.com/ff11us/envi/charge.html

EU
playonline.com/ff11eu/envi/charge.html

JP
playonline.com/ff11/envi/charge.html

30 days = $11.95(1195 crysta), €11.95(1195 crysta), ￡8.29(829 crysta) or 1,180円(with tax 1,239円) (1,239 crysta)
extra characters are still $1, €1 ,￡.70 and 105円 for japan.

so rates are going down.

(I can't post URLs yet)

[Draggy]

As for Click and Buy, I knew nothing about them, and signed up for it when I activated 14 back in June. Of course 3 hours later Bank of America had frozen both mine and husbands bank accounts and made our cards useless. After the third phonecall about "suspicious behaviour" they finally mention it was a $2 charge from click and buy, by that time they had already sent out new bank cards so we had no account access for the week -.-

[Aja]

When you buy crysta and all this, where did you find the date of when you need to refill crysta? I know I read it before but too intoxicated to try to find it atm....

[Vucian]

What did your post say misty?

[Dimmauk]

So Click and buy will automatically take out the monthly fees now?

[Lutia]

"Click and Buy is not available in your country." upon login, not before registration...

They should've found a more competent billing partner.

Crysta it is.

[cdgreg]

Admittedly have not read all 18 pages, but did anyone else get a $2.40 charge on their debit card from "CLICKANDBUY INTERNATIONAL" after transferring? It seems incredibly fishy to me.

Processing CHECKCARD CLICKANDBUY INTER LONDON ON 07/27 Debit Processing
-$2.40

Same, their verification amount apparently.

[Michelob]

Works for me /w no problems~

You are not buying Crysta whatsoever? Everyone, EVERYRONE in my LS says that they had to do the stupid verified by visa or whatever the fuck the mastercard crap is.

[catfat]

Is it possible to cancel a content id without the Playonline viewer or calling the Credit Card company

[Okan]

If their reasoning was this allowed them to "accept a larger range of credit cards" I don't see why they couldn't leave a direct service in place for people with cards that work just fine (most major banks and debit cards from Visa and Mastercard) and also have something like Paypal, UltimatePay, and/or ClickAndBuy for those cards that are not supported.