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Indeed, PayPal is not gone for everyone, luckily. I am from Europe and can still buy games using PayPal, just did. This makes me happy, as I am trying for over two weeks now to buy credits on Open AI, just to be able to translate texts from the FastAPI docs to German. Open AI and others do not support PayPal and not even a prepaid credit card, which my local bank sold me as "works everywhere". It is frustrating.


PayPal is terrible for merchants, quite frankly, and often consumers at times. I don't understand why many people love them so much. There's a good reason many places don't accept PayPal nowadays.


I can confirm that PayPal is terrible. But that Open AI does not even accept a Prepaid Credit card from the second-largest German bank, that sucks.


Maybe N26 / Revolut would work in your case?


Those banks also use Visa / Mastercard for payments.


That is good to hear, that would probably mean that they are accepted by Open AI (Though the Visa Logo is also on my Prepaid card and open AI does not accept it, whatever)


Thanks for this tip, I will check this out. Edit: Just contacted N26


Too bad, I can not use these, they require a smartphone/an app. But still, thanks for the support.




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