Can't add funds to PSN account using O2 money card?

1ZRed

Is there a way to get this to work? I've emailed sony about it because I was charged €0.12 so I was thinking they're just verifying my card.
All I want to do is add €5 to buy some uncharted dlc so it wouldn't be worth my while to buy a €20 psn card in store.
I read about people having problems using pre-paid visas but does anyone know if it'll work after it's been verified?
(I haven't heard back from sony yet btw)

chrislad

Everything I've read seems to indicate the O2 money card doesn't work on PSN, and you'll just get charged for each attempt.

Sephiroth_dude

1ZRed wrote: »

Is there a way to get this to work? I've emailed sony about it because I was charged €0.12 so I was thinking they're just verifying my card.
All I want to do is add €5 to buy some uncharted dlc so it wouldn't be worth my while to buy a €20 psn card in store.
I read about people having problems using pre-paid visas but does anyone know if it'll work after it's been verified?
(I haven't heard back from sony yet btw)

Happened me too,couldn't add funds to wallet,bloody annoying.

EJ22

Can't see why it wouldn't work, just got one myself today after nearly getting to max limit on my pre-paid mastercard. I know the pre-paid mastercard worked no bother as I used it to buy Motorstorm RC.

EDIT: By the looks of it after some research, once you try validate your card they charge €1 as a purchase approval test, which will be returned to you after 10 days. After this time, it seems that most people can then use their o2 money cards.

Alternatively you may have to contact either Sony or O2, one of them could be blocking the transaction for some reason and it just needs to be verified on their account.

1ZRed

EJ22 wrote: »

Can't see why it wouldn't work, just got one myself today after nearly getting to max limit on my pre-paid mastercard. I know the pre-paid mastercard worked no bother as I used it to buy Motorstorm RC.

EDIT: By the looks of it after some research, once you try validate your card they charge €1 as a purchase approval test, which will be returned to you after 10 days. After this time, it seems that most people can then use their o2 money cards.

Alternatively you may have to contact either Sony or O2, one of them could be blocking the transaction for some reason and it just needs to be verified on their account.

The last time I used a pre-paid card was back in 2010 but that was a 3v card. It's funny how I'm having problems now. Maybe pre-payed MasterCards don't have any problems with them?
I'll email O2 now and I'm still waiting on a reply from Sony.
People here had the exact same problem as me but I can find the threads to see if it all worked out.

EJ22

1ZRed wrote: »

The last time I used a pre-paid card was back in 2010 but that was a 3v card. It's funny how I'm having problems now. Maybe pre-payed MasterCards don't have any problems with them?
I'll email O2 now and I'm still waiting on a reply from Sony.
People here had the exact same problem as me but I can find the threads to see if it all worked out.

Heh I remember using 3v card for my WoW subscription. I don't know to be honest as both the pre-paid mastercard and the o2 money card are classified as debit cards, so there shouldn't be any difference, except for the issuers of the card (Payzone for Mastercard, O2 for Money card).

Let me know how you get on, I'm going to give my o2 card a try later when i'm on my ps3/vita so i'll update this thread with my results

1ZRed

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

1ZRed wrote: »

Is there a way to get this to work? I've emailed sony about it because I was charged €0.12 so I was thinking they're just verifying my card.
All I want to do is add €5 to buy some uncharted dlc so it wouldn't be worth my while to buy a €20 psn card in store.
I read about people having problems using pre-paid visas but does anyone know if it'll work after it's been verified?
(I haven't heard back from sony yet btw)

Happened me too,could add funds to wallet,bloody annoying.

Did it work eventually though? or did you just get refunded and that was it?

Sephiroth_dude

1ZRed wrote: »

Did it work eventually though? or did you just get refunded and that was it?

nope didn't work at all,don't think I was charged either,I must check.I had a 3v card before and worked so maybe I'll just use that again *sigh*

EJ22

Tried to use mine, it added to my account which was grand, charged 12c but then I couldn't add to my wallet. Getting same error as you guys.

1ZRed

EJ22 wrote: »

Tried to use mine, it added to my account which was grand, charged 12c but then I couldn't add to my wallet. Getting same error as you guys.

Yeah I got charged 12 cent but I cant add anything to my account. Have you added money to your account before with the card? This the first time for me with this card so maybe it's just being verified by Sony or something.
Stupidly frustrating though!

TanG411

The O2 card used to work not long after it came out. I used it a couple of times.

Then one day it just stopped working, and hasn't worked since.

1ZRed

ThinksAmoral wrote: »

The O2 card used to work not long after it came out. I used it a couple of times.

Then one day it just stopped working, and hasn't worked since.

Of course it doesn't anymore! I'm sick of sony and all the errors. If doesn't work anymore they sure didn't seem to have any problems taking money off me.

EJ22

1ZRed wrote: »

Of course it doesn't anymore! I'm sick of sony and all the errors. If doesn't work anymore they sure didn't seem to have any problems taking money off me.

I've wrote a thread in the BIZ section of the forums asking to talk to an O2 representative regarding this issue, feel free to follow it there as its a problem i personally want solved for my own sake, and it ties in with the interests of the people who have wrote here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056587167

I'm not quite sure if its sony or o2 anymore to be honest, I read a post earlier on the internet that if you ring customer services for o2 they can clear it to be used, but other posts contradict the previous.

Hopefully we'll get a resolution on this issue shortly, otherwise I guess i'll have to save up more and buy some PSN cards from Gamesnash.ie

Sephiroth_dude

EJ22 wrote: »

I've wrote a thread in the BIZ section of the forums asking to talk to an O2 representative regarding this issue, feel free to follow it there as its a problem i personally want solved for my own sake, and it ties in with the interests of the people who have wrote here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056587167

I'm not quite sure if its sony or o2 anymore to be honest, I read a post earlier on the internet that if you ring customer services for o2 they can clear it to be used, but other posts contradict the previous.

Hopefully we'll get a resolution on this issue shortly, otherwise I guess i'll have to save up more and buy some PSN cards from Gamesnash.ie

ah good man,I must have a look at that : )

Glico Man

My mate had trouble with this, as did I when I was using a 3v card. I got sick of trying after the 3rd attempt and just used the funds on the 3v to buy PSN vouchers off Gamesnash, got the codes within a few minutes.

EJ22

aaronh007 wrote: »

My mate had trouble with this, as did I when I was using a 3v card. I got sick of trying after the 3rd attempt and just used the funds on the 3v to buy PSN vouchers off Gamesnash, got the codes within a few minutes.

Aye i've seen this being a popular choice for a get-around, I personally don't want to have to spend for eg 20 euro when the DLC/whatever i want is only 5 euro. leaves 15 sitting there on its laurels when it could be in my bank account instead

Gamesnash.ie: Pat

EJ22 wrote: »

Aye i've seen this being a popular choice for a get-around, I personally don't want to have to spend for eg 20 euro when the DLC/whatever i want is only 5 euro. leaves 15 sitting there on its laurels when it could be in my bank account instead

That's a terrible attitude - it should be in ours ! (and then back to Sony in the end :pac:)

Serious reply though is I totally agree with you - if you only want to spend €5.00 it's a pain to have to get a €20 card to do so.

EJ22

Gamesnash.ie: Pat wrote: »

That's a terrible attitude - it should be in ours ! (and then back to Sony in the end :pac:)

Best reply ever Ah well guess you should thank O2 that now i'll have to save up to purchase a card from ya's

1ZRed

@EJ22
So is it official we can't use our O2 cards? I haven't heard back from Sony and doubt I will! ****in retards!!
All this bother for €2.99 euro worth of DLC!:D

EJ22

1ZRed wrote: »

@EJ22
So is it official we can't use our O2 cards? I haven't heard back from Sony and doubt I will! ****in retards!!
All this bother for €2.99 euro worth of DLC!:D

Yeah i've heard nothing back from O2 on the BIZ forums or anything. Kinda a shame since its technically misadvertising on O2's part as it does not act like a normal VISA card.

Also i'm the same, i wanted it for the motorstorm RC DLC haha 2.99 and a couple of 75c dlc's. Ah well Gamesnash.ie will get our custom instead now

EJ22

So.. Kind of a necro of a thread but for good reason. I updated to 1.65 before it was pulled from the market, and I can confirm that for some reason, I was able to add 5.00 to my wallet using my o2 money card. I shall submit screenshots of my transaction history and a screenshot showing it was taken from my o2 money card.






so.. any speculation why the hell its working all of a sudden?

Wetai

I was about to post the same thing! I tried it w/ o2 money card and it worked. Before it wouldn't do anything past the initial authorization (borrowing 1€ when I added the card), - didn't get charged for trying to use it - and wouldn't allow purchases because of incorrect details, but it worked just now!

Despite this post/email from Sony saying pre-paid credit cards can't be used.
Im on 1.66 (had to back up some savedata so I don't lose MH progress again >_>), the latest version.

WarZoneBrother

Wetai wrote: »

I was about to post the same thing! I tried it w/ o2 money card and it worked. Before it wouldn't do anything past the initial authorization (borrowing 1€ when I added the card), - didn't get charged for trying to use it - and wouldn't allow purchases because of incorrect details, but it worked just now!

Despite this post/email from Sony saying pre-paid credit cards can't be used.
Im on 1.66 (had to back up some savedata so I don't lose MH progress again >_>), the latest version.

So I can now use o2 money card to buy the Motorstorm DLC?...

Wetai

WarZoneBrother wrote: »

So I can now use o2 money card to buy the Motorstorm DLC?...

It worked for both of us on .65+, so you may as well try, since we've both had success.

EJ22

Aye It worked for me, and I know its also worked for 1ZRed as I PM'd him. So whatever they done in their system it works again

aN.Droid

EJ22 wrote: »

Aye It worked for me, and I know its also worked for 1ZRed as I PM'd him. So whatever they done in their system it works again

That's good to hear as before I had lots of headaches with pre paid cards and the psnsen

nitromaster

Anyone had any success recently? want to make sure it's not down again :P

1ZRed

nitromaster wrote: »

Anyone had any success recently? want to make sure it's not down again :P

Haven't tried it since April but it worked eventually after a lot of frustration.
Sure just try it out and see. It'll prob work out for you.

Kenno90

I never had problems using them in the past, haven't tried in the last few months, but i bought all the black ops DLC with it

nitromaster

Had no problems this time! Now to try and download all those plus titles....:pac:

Kenno90

Good Luck:pac:

ST3NG4H

Yep I'm having the 'could not add funds to your wallet' now for three days trying to use the 02 card to get BF3 Premium.

I think I'm gonna have to take aaron007 advice and get on to Gamesnash for a PSN card.

Just wondering though, I think you can be locked out of your PSN account for 24 hrs,48 hrs or even a week I've heard in some circles if you have tried adding funds too often, will the PSN card work relatively quickly or will I have to wait until the PSN account is unlocked?

Me heads gone!

Thanks in advance.

EJ22

ST3NG4H wrote: »

Yep I'm having the 'could not add funds to your wallet' now for three days trying to use the 02 card to get BF3 Premium.

I think I'm gonna have to take aaron007 advice and get on to Gamesnash for a PSN card.

Just wondering though, I think you can be locked out of your PSN account for 24 hrs,48 hrs or even a week I've heard in some circles if you have tried adding funds too often, will the PSN card work relatively quickly or will I have to wait until the PSN account is unlocked?

Me heads gone!

Thanks in advance.

Must be your account cos today I added my o2 card to my GF's account (which is an english account at that) and purchased Playstation Plus no bother.

Sephiroth_dude

EJ22 wrote: »

Must be your account cos today I added my o2 card to my GF's account (which is an english account at that) and purchased Playstation Plus no bother.

what could be wrong with his account because I have the same problem

EJ22

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

what could be wrong with his account because I have the same problem

I've no idea tbh. I know on my account I added it, tried a transaction but it didnt work. Left the card linked and tried a week later and it worked. Might need time to verify with O2 or something behind the scenes

ST3NG4H

I finally added funds to my wallet yesterday after buying a PSN card from Gamesnash, can't recommend them enough great service. So I'm gonna stick to that method from now on and not use the 02 card directly to add funds.

Oh and I'll probly get an XBOX soon too I've lost my patience with Sony.

1ZRed

ST3NG4H wrote: »

I finally added funds to my wallet yesterday after buying a PSN card from Gamesnash, can't recommend them enough great service. So I'm gonna stick to that method from now on and not use the 02 card directly to add funds.

Oh and I'll probly get an XBOX soon too I've lost my patience with Sony.

I get what you mean. You'd think Sony would be more than happy to take your money but no, they have to make you go arseways around the situation in order to top up your account.
Their games can't be beat but their service is piss poor.... It seems to balance things out though;)