I've had this account since May of 2015 when I enabled witcher 3 from a promo with nVIDIA.

Trying to purchase the season pass and I got the stupid msg of

Purchasing gifts via credit/debit card is not yet enabled on this account. These security measures are automatically lifted three months after completing purchases worth $10 / €9.19 / £6.69 / A$13.99 / 719.00 RUB / 55 DKK / 70 NOK / 65 SEK / 30 PLN / C$ 10 / 10 CHF in total. Please keep in mind that you can always purchase gifts through another payment method. If you have any questions or concerns, our customer support team is ready to help.

So.. I have to pay 10$ for some random shit and THAN wait 3 months before I can actually buy anything else? Am I reading that wrong or what the fuck is going on?

Please help me before I go buy the game on steam and end up with 2 copies because I cant buy a season pass from gog

It's so crooks can't just create a throwaway GOG account, use one or more stolen card numbers to purchase gift codes, and sell those codes on gray market sites like G2A or Kinguin (something they were apparently having a lot of trouble with after the launch of Wild Hunt last year, and the increase in visibility that both that and Galaxy brought to this site).

But, if you redeemed an Nvidia promo code for the base game on GOG, why would you need to buy a gift code for the expansion pass here? Your last sentence makes it sound like you're buying it for yourself. If so, just uncheck the 'purchase as gift' box on the checkout screen, and you'll be able to purchase it.

Here is a response given by a staff member earlier, cody331.

P.S. And you can definitely use other payment methods, such as PayPal.

https://www.gog.com/support/contact is the best place to seek assistance for matters like this.

In terms of the conditions cited above, there are high levels of credit card fraud, as well as tonnes of people purchasing video games as gifts by the dozens/hundreds/thousands when they go on super deep discount sale, who then turn around and sell these game gift keys to websites like G2A, GMG and other shady unauthorized resellers, producing a profit for themselves and the shady site in the process at the loss of the game retailler such as GOG, Steam or others. As such, these companies have had to put restrictions on accounts to try to stem the widespread abuse of this practice. One of the things that these scammers do is create tonnes of bogus accounts just to purchase a bunch of gift codes to profiteer off of with no intention of themselves ever redeeming or playing the games. Steam has this problem as well as other legitimate distributors. The worst part is that many of these scammers are using stolen credit cards and once the charges are reported as fraudulent and reversed, the retailer may be out the money and the game, plus possibly pay fees for the reverse transaction.

So anti-fraud security measures are a necessity to reduce the amount of fraud occurring. This can be inconvenient at times, but it is a fact of life we all have to deal with nowadays. Other payment methods apparently are not being exploited like this to commit fraud so they provide that method without the strict security measures.

If you contact support directly they will best be able to advise or help you to get what you want. Note that Steam has similar if not arguably more strict anti-fraud measures than this, and if you have not met Steam's requirements in your account then you'll have similar problems there as well.

Be upset with the criminals out there that commit fraud which makes this practice a virtual necessity, don't be upset with GOG or Steam or other stores for not wanting to continuously get ripped off by scammers and criminals who abuse credit cards and cost these retailers millions of dollars in lost revenue as well as harming credit card holders stuck with fraudulent charges.

I got hosed due to anti-fraud measures at GOG on the Summer sale last week, they froze my ability to purchase simply because I made 3 separate transactions within 20 minutes, which is really not an uncommon thing especially during flash sales, Insomnia promos etc. I was quite surprised, but it unfroze after 6 hours and I haven't had problems in the mean time. I wasn't too pleased by it either, but I don't think they have a lot of other options to avoid getting ripped off by criminals, so we all suffer with some inconveniences until some genius out there comes out with a better solution to this problem.

Why do you want to buy the expansion pass as a gift? Adding it directly to your account would solve all your dilemmas.

The only topics on this I can find are old so I figure a necro is equivalent to a new post. I'm getting payments restricted on my account that's been active for years and years. Same core issue as OP. Trying to buy a copy of Warcraft 2 BNE for my dad and GOG even acknowledges I already own the game (proving I've both made purchases on my account and that it's relatively old), yet I'm restricted from buying using a credit card or PayPal because of this restriction that's clearly broken. I can use "Skrill" though, whatever the hell that is. Consider this a bug report.

EDIT: Skrill is a massive pain in the ass, I'm really glad I'm jumping through hoops trying to buy a gift on an account that's 7 years old

As mentioned above, in order for the restriction to be lifted, 3 months need to have passed since the date of your purchase (not since the date of your account creation). If you bought the game recently then, unfortunately, the system is working as intended.

In that case, buy wallet funds with the credit/debit card, then try buying the game(s) as a gift with the wallet funds. Open a support ticket. Warcraft II Battle.net Edition -- the only game he owns -- is $9.99 at full price. Even assuming it wasn't bought on sale, that's $0.01 below the minimum of $10 required to buy a gift.

You guys replied really fast! Thanks for taking a look and sorry for my poor attitude, I've had a really long day and topping it off with something that should be really simple being a huge PITA. I bought WC2 twice, once for myself and once for my sis, and it was a long time ago. To #1: I tried, though Skrill is making it tricky. Trying to work through it now.
To #2: I did create a ticket, hopefully I'll get it solved in the near future but I guess it's not a huge deal if no.
To #3: I actually bought the game twice in the past so I should be near $20 spent.

I think something's broken but I can just rely on the support ticket from now on. Sorry for the annoyance.

EDIT: Yeah Skrill doesn't work for this either, you can't use the money deposited for payments via GOG. I don't even know why GOG lists it as an option. Probably no one has complained about it cause no one uses it. Hopefully the support ticket can help me resolve my issue and finish this up. Ironically I had to open a second support ticket with Skrill because its withdrawal system doesn't work so my money is stuck in there. Bah.

My suggestion was to buy wallet funds with your credit/debit card, then try buying the gift with wallet funds. Unfortunately, the support article only vaguely mentions the restriction applies to "some payment methods" so I can't say for a fact it would work. It can take weeks to get the first response, so good luck with that. I believe only purchases that go towards your account are counted, or else you wouldn't be dealing with this restriction in the first place. Note that there are games on sale right now for as low as $0.50.

Hello,
here is the screenshot I made June 2022 for a new restricted account. A workaround via Gog Wallet was not possible. I used Paysafecard to buy gifts.