Adding money to steam with SMS!

[GizmoTheDude]

I have 15 years so i don't have a credit cartd and here in Bosnia & Herzegovina parents won't even think about giving money for games.I was thinking that you could make it so that you can send money from your phone to steam ?

[Spawn of Totoro]

This quote from the Blizzard forums sums up why phone payments are unlikely to happen:

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.

tl;dr

Too many issues with phone companies making unauthorized charge-backs.

[wuddih]

own bank account? I was 12 when I got mine to manage my pocket money. and if you have that, you can use any online payment service. paypal, amazon, google.

[GizmoTheDude]

I dont own a bank account . Rly would love that you can add money with phone :(

[TastyToast]

how do you pay for your phone?

[Dunderbuff]

It works perfectly on League of Legends, so i dont see the problem

[NightHowl CSGODUCK.COM BETS.gg]

yep steam have to add this I would send a ♥♥♥♥ tone of money for cs go xD csgo=drug

[DXLT]

I think, it's will be very userfull fuction for younger users. :)

[76561198001062896]

Why dont you try to get steam wallet cards?

[Dunderbuff]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zetikla:

Why dont you try to get steam wallet cards?

We can do that but it would be much easier to just pay through the phone than going to a store and buying a steam wallet card, then go home and redeem it. I cant do that because i live 3 hours from the nearest shop who sells those steam wallet cards. :)

[Modelestas]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Hubby:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zetikla:

Why dont you try to get steam wallet cards?

We can do that but it would be much easier to just pay through the phone than going to a store and buying a steam wallet card, then go home and redeem it. I cant do that because i live 3 hours from the nearest shop who sells those steam wallet cards. :)

In my country there is no steam wallet cards or any wallet cards

[Phoenix-co]

Note that when you pay that way, the phone operators keep about half of the money. (+/- 10%)
So if you tried to buy a 40€ game with steam credit from a phone, you'd have to pay 80€ for it...

[VULETIC]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Gremlin:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Hubby:

We can do that but it would be much easier to just pay through the phone than going to a store and buying a steam wallet card, then go home and redeem it. I cant do that because i live 3 hours from the nearest shop who sells those steam wallet cards. :)

In my country there is no steam wallet cards or any wallet cards

Znam da kasno odgovaram lul, ali evo samo da ti kazem da imas steam wallet da kupis na onim iNovine trafikama. Vidio sam da tamo ima ali jbt 16.50 KM im je 5$. Vadim karticu kad vidim istekla prije par dana hahaha.