VIP now with Phone/SMS payment

15-9-2009 13:01

There has been quite a few requests for other ways than PayPal and creditcards to pay for the VIP memberships, we have taken the consequence of this and implemented SMS and Phone payment.

The SMS and Phone payments do however have some restrictions, first of all a maximum of 3 months of VIP is the max we can sell, and we will not always be able to charge the exact amount and will have to overcharge a bit. Furthermore HLTV.org will receive less money from SMS and phone payments than PayPal and creditcards, so if you have either of those two please use them.

The SMS/Phone services are available in the following countries:

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States of America

So what are you waiting for, buy VIP today!

If you experience any problems with the new payment methods please contact support.

Thanks to all the users who provided us with different providers, made it much easier to find a suitable solutions! :)

2009-09-15 13:04

6 replies

what do you mean you have to overcharge sometimes? :s you mean i can't trust that all my money on the cellphone go away?

2009-09-15 13:46

3 replies

No no, the amount that it says on the phone payment is what you will pay. It simply does not always match the amount in € that is displayed at first.

2009-09-15 13:47

2 replies

okey. thank you. i just tried to buy it: "No SMS/Phone payment methods available in your country for this amount" And the country norway isnt in the list, but u have put it on the list here. :(

2009-09-15 13:52

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It is because of the max amount, if you select 1 month of VIP Norway should be there.

2009-09-15 13:53

Nomad we be able to book a HLTV from now on, if we don't become a VIP?

2009-09-15 18:33

Yes of course, we haven't removed anything from the free users, VIP is just additional services, we still love you all equally, go ahead and check out the booking, still more than 200 free booking HLTVs! :)

2009-09-15 18:49

Nice

2009-09-15 13:05

no estonia:(?

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So, but it is very hard to get providers who cover all countries, hopefully in the future more countries will be added..

2009-09-15 13:07

tele2 is in Latvia, and Scandinavian countries..

2009-09-15 13:50

It is our provider ZayPay that handles that, not us, sorry..

Thats damn sad:///

2009-09-15 14:32

Bulgaria

2009-09-15 13:08

great!:X love you

2009-09-15 13:09

No Ukraine :O

2009-09-15 13:14

lol Luxembourg

2009-09-15 13:41

portugal way it's not available. i have tried it and didn't work :x

2009-09-15 13:42

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For how many months and for what options?

Hmm.. It seems some countries do not support even the 4€ starting amount of VIP, e.g. for Portugal the max is 2€.. :(

really sad :(

2009-09-15 18:55

I am working on a 14 days (actually 15.5 days) subscription (you can always just buy two times in a row to get a month) so you guys can also become VIP's. It will probably be ready tonight :)

2009-09-15 18:57

great :)

2009-09-15 19:09

yeees. that's what i missed. thank you

2009-09-15 13:44

portugal is not available .x

2009-09-15 13:56

No sorry, the max amount for Portugal is 2€ it seems, I'll look into a solution..

2009-09-15 13:57

The SMS/Phone services are available in the following countries: .... Czech Republic .. I haven't seen it in VIP buying zone for Czech Republic .. :(

2009-09-15 14:02

Yea sorry about that, same problem as Portugal, the VIP membership is too expensive for the max amount you can get by SMS. I'll look to add more SMS/Phone providers soon so we can get better coverage..

2009-09-15 14:03

ESTONIA ???? FTW

2009-09-15 14:16

It seems there is no SMS payment for Romania, even if its been mentioned.

2009-09-15 14:49

Most likely same problem as Portugal and other countries mentioned above, I will look for more providers so we can hopefully get all countries included.

2009-09-15 14:51

"So what are you waiting for, buy VIP today!" I'll buy VIP yesterday. And the day before. Wooot, now I'm making sense.

2009-09-15 14:56

omg...-.-

2009-09-15 15:10

is San Marino in under Italy or ...?

2009-09-15 15:16

no Latvia ? :( :D:D:D

2009-09-15 15:40

Chile?<.< <3

2009-09-15 15:45

"The SMS/Phone services are available in the following countries: ... Russian Federation" "Payment by SMS/Phone is only available for 1, 2 or 3 months of VIP membership." ok let's select 1, 2 or 3 and "No SMS/Phone payment methods available in your country for this amount, either select another amount of months, or pay with creditcard." O_O

2009-09-15 16:17

Again, like I have told many people above you, it is because the amount exceeds the MAX for transactions via phone in those countries, I will work on a solution.

2009-09-15 16:35

You can select Russia now if you select VIP for 1 month, and no autorecorder.

2009-09-15 18:28

Great new feature to help those who can't pay via conventional means. :) We are lucky to have people running HLTV.org who take us into consideration so often. :P Keep it up! :)

2009-09-15 16:30

seemed like my opinion (not only mine :b) was listened, and thank you to HLTV.org to make the younger persons capable of getting the VIP :D ty a lot, this week i'll charge my telephone and buy the vip :D

2009-09-15 16:36

Well actually there is an issue with Portugal atm.. ;)

2009-09-15 16:47

i saw it, at least there is more countries that can get VIP and that's really nice, looking forward to see Portugal has one of the countries that can buy VIP :D hltv reached the top1 esports page (:

2009-09-15 17:49

You can still buy if you have a VISA or mastercard via the Paypal page. :)

2009-09-15 18:18

i've only 15 years-old, but i have a VISA card but it's controlled by my father, maybe i can convince him , he's always on the tournaments i attend supporting me :D

2009-09-15 18:53

Sure he'll understand why you want the cool VIP features then ;)

LOOL

2009-09-15 19:02

sweet, might buy when I get some more money to the phone:)

2009-09-15 18:04

i want my name colored in this forum!!!

2009-09-15 18:10

without argentina like always :( but congratz hltv, excellent decision !

2009-09-15 18:25

We are working on adding more countries, plus you can always use creditcard. :)

2009-09-15 18:27

Im 17 :( hahahabut it's ok :) Ill be waiting for it ! excellent work :D

singapore gogo!

Keep using Paypal and your credit cards people!

2009-09-15 19:31

Yup, some people can...

2009-09-15 21:39

I know they can? :P Wtf? haha

2009-09-19 00:30

Just noticed you didn't have a bold name and wrote that... see my point now?

2009-09-19 01:55

Oh you meant that I should? If you did, yeah now I see it. :D Though what I meant was that the people that are about to buy should use Paypal and credit cards if they can since that'll bring more money to HLTV.org :)

2009-09-19 11:56