Purchasing ChatGPT Plus with Pre-paid cards

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Hi all,

I understand this is a Developer community but OpenAI support has been very unresponsive so this is my last resort.

I have a Vietnamese issued Visa debit card and I’ve been trying to purchase ChatGPT Plus for over a week with no success. All of my cards were declined regardless of the browser or VPN server I used. I figured this is because Vietnamese-issued cards have not yet been approved by OpenAI for purchases.

Anyway, I’m wondering whether using a pre-paid Visa card purchased from sites like vanillagift.com or giftcards.com could circumvent this issue because these cards are issued from the USA. The only problem I think might come up is recurring payments and I’m unsure on whether OpenAI accepts electronic-prepaid cards or not, if anyone knows more about this please let me know. (I don’t want to spend $50 on a card I can’t use.)

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I’m having the same issue on a US visa gift card, just gets declined constantly.

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I have the same issue. Have you figure out the way to subscribe the ChatGPT Plus?

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I have same issue from prepaid italian mastercard.
This is bad limitation. So i suggest to give possibility to purchase credit and not only use credit card.

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I did exactly that. I bought a $50 Vanilla gift card and it doesn’t work…

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I did that too, has anyone found any solution for this?
and something even more terrible happened to me I bought a 20$ visa gift card and it got accepted and I got promoted to plus but after couple of days It says my account has been deleted or deactivated
and since there is no support literally I don’t know what to do

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I would like to give an OpenAI gift card to my nephew for Christmas

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Hi @jayAI - having exactly same issue regarding Christmas gift, can I kindly ask if you have resolved it? I want to buy a pre-paid $60 card and put a sticker like “use me to pay for 3-month subscription for openai” but worded in nicer way. Thanks if you have time to respond, or anyone else.

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I have the same problem. I use my Greenlight card wich is just a Pre paid Debiit card that can be be loaded with money when ever I want. I constantly get declined with this arror. “Your card was declined. Please try a different card.”

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OpenAI has an embedded in it a personal profiler which tracts a social-security number via your credit card to your account. This means that they have a set intention on knowing who is using the AI tools and how they are using them so they can match that against the person. (Example: OpenAI query history → OpenAI profile → Credit Card, Email, FB account profil, Google Account, Instagram account and Phone Number). Everything is linked back to you via a AWS framework. Why? You may ask. TOA

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I have the same question. I am a subscriber, but want to purchase a gift card for birthday.

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bump
I mean they don’t accept paypal, they don’t accept credits… I don’t want to pay a monthly/per-purchase fee for a card just ot use this service. Sad sad sad…

OpenAI open up your payment system, or be honest, and give a valid argument why you don’t accept it. You answer so many questions, but remain silent on why you don’t accept PayPal or prepaid creditcards.

This is constructive criticism, I really want to understand why this isn’t being addressed beyond “currently we’re not…” or “thread locked”.