In game purchase without using wallet

[cookiefreamon]

Hi. I'm trying to do an in game purchase on Adventure Capitalist for $0.99 but the only option I am given is using steam wallet funds but I don't want to pay a minimum of $5 just to have money in my wallet. I can not find ANY way to use any other payment method even though I have one saved on my account. I've seen people say to make my credit card my default payment method but I can't figure out how to do that either. Any tips?

[Acecool]

If you have any trading cards, you should be able to sell those to get money in your wallet.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by cookiefreamon:

Hi. I'm trying to do an in game purchase on Adventure Capitalist for $0.99 but the only option I am given is using steam wallet funds but I don't want to pay a minimum of $5 just to have money in my wallet. I can not find ANY way to use any other payment method even though I have one saved on my account. I've seen people say to make my credit card my default payment method but I can't figure out how to do that either. Any tips?

This is intentional by design. There is no way around not using wallet funds.

[cookiefreamon]

Originally posted by Acecool:

If you have any trading cards, you should be able to sell those to get money in your wallet.

What are trading cards?

[F/\C3$MASH]

ok

[Acecool]

Originally posted by cookiefreamon:

Originally posted by Acecool:

If you have any trading cards, you should be able to sell those to get money in your wallet.

What are trading cards?

When you buy games, the store page will list if they have trading cards. You can use these to level your steam profile up by completing a set and getting badges. This also gives you a larger friends-list.

People spend real money in the market to buy these cards which are given to you for free in exchange for "playtime". Although playing the game isn't even necessary.

I believe some free games also have trading cards, and I believe there are over 10,000 free games on Steam. You can activate 50 per hour and there is a website, I think it is isthereanydeal which lets you activate all of them. Although Steam uses a lot of memory when you have a large games library because of the list.


You can then sell those cards on the market for real money - not sure if you can take the money out of the Steam wallet, though. So it'd have to be spent in the Steam store.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Acecool:

Originally posted by cookiefreamon:

What are trading cards?

When you buy games, the store page will list if they have trading cards. You can use these to level your steam profile up by completing a set and getting badges. This also gives you a larger friends-list.

People spend real money in the market to buy these cards which are given to you for free in exchange for "playtime". Although playing the game isn't even necessary.

I believe some free games also have trading cards, and I believe there are over 10,000 free games on Steam. You can activate 50 per hour and there is a website, I think it is isthereanydeal which lets you activate all of them. Although Steam uses a lot of memory when you have a large games library because of the list.


You can then sell those cards on the market for real money - not sure if you can take the money out of the Steam wallet, though. So it'd have to be spent in the Steam store.

Free to play games drop game cards based on your in-game purchasing. For every $9 USD spent (approximate) in game, you will earn one card drop. This card will drop at some point as you play.

[Kargor]

Keep in mind

• "Wallet" does not expire; you can keep your leftover $4.01 in there for as long as you want
  
• When you buy a game you can use "wallet"
  
• If you buy a game that's more expensive than what you have in your wallet, you can just empty the wallet and pay the rest normally

[crunchyfrog]

I'm not quite sure where you're having this issue, but when you try to buy a game, at checkout it will automatically try to take money from your steam wallet if there's anything there.

When you get to that checkout page that requires you to tick the "agree" box, note at the top there's a small box that says to select your payment method and if you click on it, you can change it from you steam wallet to payment card ONLY.