Need help with Paysafecard and steam wallet

[Atrushan]

I had a 20€ coupon for a shop, but it didn't have steam cards. So I bought 2x 15€ Paysafecards to add funds to my steam wallet.
There are the PIN numbers on the bill, but Steam is asking for billing information. Why? I already have them, I already paid for them. All I want is to use them.

And how would I do that, since there's no option for 15 or 30€? All I see is add 5/10/25€.
10 would be too little, 25 too much for a single card. This is way more complicated than I should...

[Supafly]

Will be for tax purposes. Just give them the requested information so they can apply the tax for the relevant country

[Atrushan]

Thanks for the reply, but that makes no sense. What taxes? The paysafecards are already bought and activated. And the same way I can just buy any steam game on any other site and activate it with a simple code in steam, without being asked to give away personal and unnecessary information, should work for paysafecards too.

Why Steam is so eager about collecting personal data is beyond me.

[guui]

concordo totalmente

[Ogami]

Escrito originalmente por Atrushan:

Thanks for the reply, but that makes no sense. What taxes? The paysafecards are already bought and activated. And the same way I can just buy any steam game on any other site and activate it with a simple code in steam, without being asked to give away personal and unnecessary information, should work for paysafecards too.

Why Steam is so eager about collecting personal data is beyond me.

New tax rules for internet transactions since the beginning of the year. Mainly the USA, Europe and some other parts of the world.
They are required by law to collect that data.
I dont really see the problem, its just your billing address. Its the same you have to fill in when ordering something on Amazon or Ebay.

I filled in these info when making my account 8 years ago and never heard anything from Steam after that.

[Atrushan]

Ah, I see. Well, I'm picky about who I give my personal information to and since I didn't have to share them in the past, I'm not going to start now. I'll see around in the internet, look for a different way to use the cards and just avoid them in the future.
Amazon is a good idea, thanks for the suggestion. They already have my data. It's just that I'd like to keep it at a minimum. Thanks for understanding.

[Supafly]

Escrito originalmente por Atrushan:

They already have my data. It's just that I'd like to keep it at a minimum. Thanks for understanding.

What's the big deal if they already have it? Just confirm it's upto date. Any other site will be required to ask for the same data. may not happen right no but it will be required by all retailers eventually anyway.

Oh and I have very particular over sharing my data. I just bought a new monitor and paid more to purchase it from somewhere I already use rather than somewhere I don't just so I'm not sharing my data with yet another company.

[Atrushan]

@ Monkey

I think you misunderstood. I was talking about Amazon. They have contact information such as address. Steam doesn't. I'd like to keep it that way.
Anonymity is a privilege and while it may be true that at some point everyone will request such information, that doesn't mean that I should throw it away at the first occassion.

Either way, the question has been answered :)

[berserk]

yeah that is kinda true

[Atrushan]

By the way, according to google Amazon wouldn't work, unless I change the paysafecard coupons into Amazon coupons through the paysafecard site. Which required even more personal data, cell phone, passport copies and other madness.

But GOG works just as it's supposed to. You select your games, enter the PIN codes from the coupons and are done. Since I had problems finding a game related site that could work that simple, I added this bit of information here, in case someone else is looking for it in the future.