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Blizzard’s Billing Scum

vk — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:10:31 +0000

Blizzard stole my $14.99. :( Again. :(

I believe they are deliberately doesn’t fixing their billing to grab some bucks from those customers who’ve been ripped off and decided not to fight with the ultimately unresponsive Blizzard billing and sales support desk over it.

As far as I know, two out of three World of Warcraft players have been ripped off by Blizzard at least once. Normally, the minimum transaction is a one month fee – $14.99 or, let’s just say it honestly, $15. 80/20 law says that there are only 20% of people would fight over their fifteen bucks. So, a let me do a little math for you:

(10'000'000 users / 3) * 2 = 6'666'666
(6'666'666 / 10 ) * 8 = 5'333'333
5'333'333 * $15 = $79'999'995

…and we will get the whopping eighty million dollars. That’s how much Blizzard done on their buggy billing system for the past several years. Not bad at all, I would say.

Back to PayPal

vk — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:00:32 +0000

PayPal comic. Worst internet payments system evah!

Domain mapping and OpenID

vk — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:13:36 +0000

That works! I’ve managed to pay for WP credits to bind my own domain name to wordpress.com. Have paid with my another credit card issued by a small bank somewhere in Caribbean. Just $10 but how many worries and all because of damn paypal.

Now my microblog could be accessed at runningclam.com, and I can post comments using runningclam.com as OpenID.

Paypal sucks

vk — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:29:41 +0000

Trying to buy some WP credits for domain mapping. Find out that my bank (VTB – largest in my country) has banned Paypal due to scum and fraudulent activity, so I can’t use my credit card for credits. Also there is no other WP credit merchants with more trustful billing :(