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Any other Norwegians with payment issues? (EvE = illegal foreign gambling now according to bank/gov)

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Veshta Yoshida
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#41 - 2013-03-02 22:44:39 UTC
Banks will go for the gold, always. Since actually looking into your claims cost money it is inevitable that they choose to interpret the regulations literally as it covers their asses perfectly.

Since you are in Norway and thus part of of our wonderful Scandinavian family, you'll be knee deep in Ombudsmen .. send him a mail explaining that it is an ordinary online game and ask if you should send a duplicate mail to :insert tabloid: to expedite matter
Can easily see a story such as this in one of the Danish trash tabloids papers as it plays directly into the fear/apprehension of Government, hate of the banks and actually has relevancy for society as a whole.

In the mean time get plex'es through alternate means. Friends you trust, US vendors, anything to get you going .. goes.

In short: Do, what is probably thousands of fellow humans, a favour and make sure that the banks get their thumbs out of their asses and do their jobs (ie. move money around for their customers).
Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#42 - 2013-03-03 03:43:31 UTC
Wookie 1 wrote:
I'm not 110% sure how this thread became about people getting their undies bunched up over globalisation/ the Free Market/ America/ etc.

Yeah I know! I'm not even 1% sure how you can get 110 parts out of one hundred pieces either. Very strange things happening here for sure.
Jensaro Koraka
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#43 - 2013-03-03 08:10:37 UTC
Ch3244 wrote:
Jensaro Koraka wrote:
Corey Fumimasa wrote:
Vaerah Vahrokha wrote:

How nice of governments and politicians.

First they royally screw us common folks off with their oh-so-great globalization with some "little" side effects like lowering workers wage, killing local industry to import toxic materials low cost stuff from eastern countries and so on.

Then, when globalization would help common folks they forbid us to reap the advantages. Sounds good! X


That's just the Iron Law of Wages V. Only way around it is laws regulating industry and finance.

If I ran things any company caught outsourcing would have the CEO and directors convicted of treason and summarily executed. How's that for regulation? I'm not from Norway though. I'm just pissed off that I keep losing jobs to Indians.

it's called a free market.

A turd by any other name still smells like ****. I think Shakespeare said that.

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -H.L. Mencken
Henry Alexander Lindeberg
Overload This
#44 - 2013-03-03 08:12:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Henry Alexander Lindeberg
The reason why it happened was because of changes in the Norwegian lottery law, effective from June 1st 2010. Likely some banks have taken their time to implement it.

Rough translation of the law effect: "In accordance with changes in the lottery law, all Norwegian financial institutions are from June 1st obligated to reject all transactions to and from foreign games operators. Foreign financial institutions are not affected and third party solutions will work as normal."

Short version: Use Paypal or a foreign credit card, or vote for a different government that doesn't try to monopolize gambling through Norsk Tipping.

Additional technical information: What they do is block Merchant Category Code 7995 on credit and debit cards. So if CCP change their MCC to something else, it will work again.

(edit; CCP: My hourly consultancy rate is 1100NOK which can be deposited as plex to this toon) Pirate
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