Why steam wants to know my billing information when i'm using PaySafeCard

[Maka313]

I select PaySafeCard as my payment method when adding funds to my Steam wallet and steam wants me to fill billing information. I have used PaySafeCard as my payment method 5 times before and it hasn't ever asked me to fill the billing information.

[Maka313]

Should it work when I fill all the information that steam want me to fill?

[Maka313]

The billing address is the billing address of credit card right? What if i do not have a credit card?
What i am suppose to fill in the billing address then?

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Maka313:

The billing address is the billing address of credit card right? What if i do not have a credit card?
What i am suppose to fill in the billing address then?

Fill in your home address, which is usually your billing address.

[RiO]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

New rules.

:qr:

There are no such new rules in the EU. The last revision to EU VAT legislation was in 2019, not 2020 and it was comparatively minor with - as far as I've been able to read - no real changes to requirements for personal data.

The last major revision was in 2015. This was the one that actually required companies to target VAT returns at the member state of consumption, and thus required companies to know the member state of domicile for an EU citizen.

As a result of the complexity of that 2015 revision and the problems that arose from it for companies operating mainly internationally and in the digital space, the EU fairly immediately came up with the MOSS (Mini One-Stop Shop) scheme in which companies can send quarterly VAT return reports that state cumulatives. MOSS also does not require retention of personal data such as name or billing address in the company's VAT administration.

In short: Valve does not need that data.

[Aru]

I'm not buying anything currently but I'm still curious what to type in that billing adress. I'm from EU, even if I fill-in my home adress it's not long enough to have some "billing adress, line 2" thing. Why the hell it's even a thing? And why there was no annoucnment in an visible place that something like that even was added?

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by Aru:

I'm not buying anything currently but I'm still curious what to type in that billing adress. I'm from EU, even if I fill-in my home adress it's not long enough to have some "billing adress, line 2" thing. Why the hell it's even a thing? And why there was no annoucnment in an visible place that something like that even was added?

if you're not a tax payer fill any fake data for address, steam will discard it anyway. they just need your filled form to see your country of origin. then if it's one with applicable taxes they will use your personal info to process taxes, if it's not, they will just discard it.
I filled similar form 1 year ago because of steam market transactions (they ask you to give info if you sold/purchased market items for X times or for X amount, I don't recall the exact rule).

[Rokonuxa]

I have stopped buying games on steam since this mistake was made. This is currently the only open discussion on this topic I can find, as others were locked for being "off topic" which is a pile of lies.
So far, steam has not made a good point for giving them anything other than the country of origin, yet they overreach by miles by asking for just about everything else.

[KodatheWolf/Fox]

this is bs cause i don't know my postal zip s at all

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by KodatheWolf/Fox:

this is bs cause i don't know my postal zip s at all

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=how+to+find+my+zip+postal+code

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by KodatheWolf/Fox:

this is bs cause i don't know my postal zip s at all

Any piece of physical mail will have that on it, even ad fliers.

:qr:

are you still getting that? haven't seen a single mail in 10 years I guess.

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

I still get random sale ads, yeah. Voting junk now as well. I get no real physical mail. Evertlything I do is online.

:qr:

soon we'll forget what is our postal and what is handwriting. but that's inevitable progress. just like people no longer need paper calendar to tell the date.

[Ghola]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

Originally posted by Maka313:

The billing address is the billing address of credit card right? What if i do not have a credit card?
What i am suppose to fill in the billing address then?

Fill in your home address, which is usually your billing address.

NO!! NEVER give your home address to strangers! If you continue to promote phishing, I'll be forced to contact the "authorities" :)

[Ghola]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Ghola:

I'm editing on the go. Why are you following me?

I'm not following anyone. I was a part of this thread since it was created. Wasn't my fault a paid mod falsely banned and removed my posts that are still visible in a few quoted posts above (4, 10 and 11).

:qr:

All right. Just wait a few hours before replying after I finish editing for spelling and other types of mistakes. "Fill in your home address, which is usually your billing address." is called promoting phishing, isn't it? :)