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Percyz Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:28am
buy credit for steam by phone?
It would be great if we could buy credits from steam by phone
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MOOD SWINGS//////// Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:29am 
yes
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eram Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:30am 
Yes you can do that now on most phones. Add credit via your phones browser.
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Percyz Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:32am 
you got it wrong, it was credit cell move to the steam * :/
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eram Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:33am 
What does that mean? In English that dosent make any sense.
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Spawn of Totoro Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:37am 
Originally posted by eram:
What does that mean? In English that dosent make any sense.

He wants the charge for the wallet funds to be paid for by the money on his pre-paid phone.
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This has been suggested many times. This post in the Blizzard forums holds true for Steam as well. It is just too problematic to allow such an option.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5910721541
The pay by phone option has always been a bit problematic for Blizzard and players.

First: A lot of phone companies do not allow Pay-by-Phone, and there are some who did allow it at one time, but stopped doing so. This is for very good reasons. Pay by phone can be very risky. If you are not very careful with it, your account can get charge backed, resulting in your account getting locked until Blizzard get their back pay. Phone Companies pay themselves first. If you have any billing disputes with your phone company, partial, or late payments, they can(have done so in the past) issue charge back, on any Blizzard payment they have ever made for you, even 2 years afterwards.

Second: Any disputes you may have with PaymentOne can put both your phone service, and your WoW account in jeopardy. PaymentOne and under it's Old name EBillit has had a bit of a spotty history, when it come to costumer complaints and disputes. If fact Verizon use to allow paymentOne's pay-by-phone service, but dropped it.

Lastly: Of the phone companies do allow Pay-by-Phone, they may limit what can or can not be charged. Because Paymentone is a 3rd party middleman, even though the charges may have appears to have gone through, they really haven't. In other words paymentone may have approved the charge, but your phone company hasn't yet. This can put a hold on the transaction until the phone company does approve it. This normally only happens the 1st time the service is used. But it may happen at any time.

Players that used this service for their WoW account needed to have been sure: To pay their phone bill on time and in full every month; If they had a dispute about part of their bill, they still had to pay it in full, and hope they would get credit back latter, when they settled their dispute; Lastly they had to be careful not to not blow off their last bill. Even if they only used pay by phone one time 2 years ago, the phone company could issue a charge back.
Last edited by Spawn of Totoro; Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:38am
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eram Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:38am 
Oh that old 1. Yeah instead of topping up just spend it on steam credit. I dont see why a user needs to spend it on top up then want to transfer it. Just spend it on the correct thing to start with.


You wont be able to purchase steam wallet credit using your existing top up pay as you go credit.

You just need to browse to the steam store and purchase your wallet credit. You can do this via mobile right now.

Pay by phone these days means browse to the site and purchase your credit via the phone.
Last edited by eram; Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:40am
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Percyz Jul 9, 2014 @ 9:40am 
yes, I don't speak English. Ty Spawn of Totoro . ^^
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