I shouldn't have spoken so soon. After having installed and set-up SlideME, and installed a free app without hassle; I've just found out SlideME accepts less payment methods than the Android market, and Maestro is still not listed. Even the Amazon payment scheme only works with Visa/Mastercard/Delta. VERY frustrating!
I decided to try handango.com, but successfully buy an app before posting here. So I signed up to handango.com and picked a random game that looked remotely interesting: "Personal Video Poker" - When I got to the payment page, it offered Switch (which is the old name for Maestro in the UK) or Paypal, which looked promising. However, the Paypal process fails stating that non-U.S. payments cannot be accepted, and the Switch method took me to an error page: "There was an error processing your order. Please try again or contact Customer Care." Buying applications should NOT be this difficult! Can anyone suggest a site or market that actually accepts Maestro debit payments? Or even PayPal?! On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > Well guys, if we can get UK debit payments to process, I will buy both > of your apps just out of principle :) > > I have since installed the SlideME market client > (https://slideme.org/) and find it works well. Although does take a > few days for all the applications to appear in the list, when I first > launched it there were no applications listed! I'll look into > reporting this bug when I get chance. > > I would suggest UK developers offer their applications via SlideME (or > a similar alternative) as well as the Android market, and make this > fact obvious on the market description so users know where else to get > hold of it. At least it gives customers a chance to pay for the apps > if they want to. > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I find it impossible to believe that precisely TWO UK sales is what I >>> should be expecting at this point. A couple of sales the first couple >>> of days, then nothing. >>> >>> I think AIG has more transparency than this endeavor. >>> >> >> Same number here. Exactly 2 sales 1st day or 1st couple of days and that's >> it. >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
