Paying for Seeking

[Rockpicker111]

I know this one comes up fairly often, but Seeking changes their credit policy on a capricious and arbitrary basis...

I have tried to recently pay their extortion fee with a Blackhawk//prepaid American Express card with all being denied. How do you boys pay so there isn't a personally identifiable trail? Ditto with Sugar Daddy.

I swear these sites work to not take your money.

[laserface]

The most anonymous way I'm aware of to pay for Seeking is to use their Android mobile app and pay using Google Play cards (bought for cash ), using an alternate Google account that isn't linked to your personal Google account. It does cost a little more to do it this way. Most prepaid cards won't allow charges to Seeking. Seeking has nothing to do with this - it's actually the card companies that won't allow the charges.

[Rockpicker111]

Will try a Google Play card. Thank you.

[laserface]

Before you go get your Google Play card(s), download the Android app, and go through the process of the premium upgrade, at least to the point just before you actually pay. It will tell you what the total is that you need on the card(s). The reason I suggest this is that, on once you get a Google Play card and add it to your account, it's "stuck" there - you can't change your mind. Once you buy the Google Play card and add it to your account, you have to spend the credit on things in the Google Play ecosystem, there's no way to extract the money back out in cash again. So it's best to know what the total is going to be before you commit.

[Jacuzzme]

Isn’t Google Play for downloading video games and whatnot? That’s a pretty weird currency for them to accept.

[laserface]

In Android apps, if the app developer accepts payment within the app for any non-tangible goods or services, it's the only payment method they are actually allowed to accept - they're not even allowed to direct you to somewhere outside of the app to pay (it's fine for such payment methods to exist, they're just not allowed to mention it in the app or encourage anyone to go outside of the app to pay) - Google has to make sure they get their cut... Valve (the Steam people) are actually in the process of suing them over this right now.