Hello,
I've been trying to buy TextMate and it's proven to be quite difficult. The website says I do not need a Paypal account to do so, but using the option of directly buying with a debit card fails (I had someone else tried, and he had the same problem so it's not just my card). So I did open a Paypal account, but I won't be able to use it until they verify my card, which is taking days.
This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they managed to get around it. TextMate is great, but I only have 3 demo days left :(
By the way, if there is a solution, I have another potential buyer in my office (the subversion integration is the feature that sold him ;-) ).
Alan
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The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO
Le 7 sept. 06 à 10:13, Alan Schmitt a écrit :
This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they managed to get around it. TextMate is great, but I only have 3 demo days left :(
Hi Alan, I had the same issue with paypal from France and finally got my license paid with a wire transfer - contact Allan at sales@macromates.com.
Sylvain
According to Alan Schmitt:
This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they
Weird because I did buy it (and two other copies later for $WORK) through Paypal w/o having an account there.
Alan Schmitt alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org wrote:
This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they managed to get around it.
No such experience here. Ever thought the problem could be with your credit card?
TextMate is great, but I only have 3 demo days left :(
I am enjoying TextMate since October 2004 ;-)
On 7 sept. 06, at 14:54, José Campos wrote:
Alan Schmitt alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org wrote:
This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they managed to get around it.
No such experience here. Ever thought the problem could be withyour credit card?
Well, it might be with VISA in France, as the friend who also tried it had the same issue with a VISA. I suspect the problem to be specific to France, but I'm not sure. One sure thing is that Paypal's payment limit for France is 0 € by default so one has to verify the card to be able to use it with Paypal. This might also explain why paying without an account fails.
Alan
-- Alan Schmitt http://alan.petitepomme.net/
The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO
Alan Schmitt alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org wrote:
Well, it might be with VISA in France, as the friend who also tried it had the same issue with a VISA. I suspect the problem to be specific to France, but I'm not sure.
Try "paypal visa card issue" in Google, seems you're not alone :(
On 7/9/2006, at 10:13, Alan Schmitt wrote:
[...] This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they managed to get around it. TextMate is great, but I only have 3 demo days left :(
I do seem to recall having dealt with more from France than other countries, where PayPal did not accept their credit card. But the number of rejected credit cards is probably one per mille or so, so it’s not a major problem.
Please write tm-sales (at) macromates.com and I will provide you with an alternative payment method.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
On 7 sept. 06, at 20:51, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 7/9/2006, at 10:13, Alan Schmitt wrote:
[...] This might be a peculiarity of using Paypal from France, but I was wondering if others had had the same bad experience, and how they managed to get around it. TextMate is great, but I only have 3 demo days left :(
I do seem to recall having dealt with more from France than other countries, where PayPal did not accept their credit card. But the number of rejected credit cards is probably one per mille or so, so it’s not a major problem.
Please write tm-sales (at) macromates.com and I will provide you with an alternative payment method.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
After registering my card with PayPal, I was able to buy TextMate (which I just did) ;-) I know that it's not such a big deal to have to open a PayPal account and wait for 4 or 5 days for it to be activated, but I know at least one person who did not buy TextMate because of this.
In any case, all is well now.
Alan
-- Alan Schmitt http://alan.petitepomme.net/
The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO
On 8/9/2006, at 10:02, Alan Schmitt wrote:
After registering my card with PayPal, I was able to buy TextMate [...]
I was just made aware of the fact that some French banks will block internet payments (done with VISA) to non-French companies, and one has to call the bank to get this blocking lifted.
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