Skype hype

Looks like Skype has become so successful they don't actually want to earn any money anymore. There are now dozens of stories in their forums about people who cannot actually pay them. Suddenly respectable people's credit cards have all become suspect overnight and are rejected for security reasons. Among them, for instance the whole population of Spain! Having had my payment cancelled twice and then rejected twice, I cannot now even try to pay. Looks like some security guy has gone nuts.

Anyone else got these problems too?

Regards

Martin

Non-US merchants like Skype always tend to have problems charging US-based card like Visa, Amex, MC etc. Actually, reverse that - US based CC companies tend to have problems trusting non-US merchants. So, just consider it a temporary problem, they'll definitely get it fixed. I would ;-)

info_at_cabling-design_dot snipped-for-privacy@foo.com (Dmitri(Cabling-Design.com)) wrote in news:ZGygd.2062936$ snipped-for-privacy@news.easynews.com:

This is simply bullshit.

Tor

Speaking of which...why would anyone *pay* Skype anyway? Is it all for the (proprietary) software they provide?

--kyler

No, it's for ability to land your call in PSTN. Everybody charges for that, so it looks easily justifiable to me.

Lots of providers do that. I still want to know why anyone would pay to be locked in to using Skype's system.

Except the ones who don't, of course.

So it makes sense to people who don't do their research? Is that all it is? Effective marketing to naive consumers? Hmmm...it might be time to buy some stock in this "next Microsoft."

--kyler