Has anyone in the U.S. had their bank say that they don't deal with overseas companies and refuse to allow it?

My 2 banks were fine with it until the recent major law shift in how they handle their banking cards. After that, I've been unable to buy from GOG.

I've even tried my card through paypal, but that didn't work.

Do you know of any ways to get around that?

Thx

That's strange. It's been the case for some time that you couldn't send funds to certain countries, but those were pretty much always obvious ones. I'm not aware of Poland ever being on any of those lists.

You might want to ask for more specifics on that. It certainly seems fishy to me.

According to this post: So it is "not only Poland" on its way.

It could be one of the other countries involved in GOG's weird setup.

I think the payment system is in the UK (but I can't see that being a problem). Wasn't Greece involved somehow as well?

EDIT: Ninja'd by Lexor! And it was Cyprus I was thinking of... What happened when you tried paypal? Did paypal refuse your card or did it just block the transaction with GOG?

I'm surptised paypal didn't work. Using paypal should shield the fact GOG is a complicated mess. No matter where you buy from in the world, your bank or credit card company should treat a paypal transaction as if your always buying from the same one place. Otherwise, I surely would have had some transactions cancelled by now.

That was my understanding. Bank pays Paypal, Paypal pays GOG. The bank should be fine with Paypal. We know that Paypal are ok with GOG (unless perhaps Julian Assange has said he likes GOG and Paypal have cut them off).

My main bank said it was a problem with Cyprus. My other bank said it didn't do international business.

When I tried Paypal, it was just blatantly denied.

Someone said that I could do a bank account money transfer. I think that will probably work. I don't have an account linked with Paypal and didn't really want to, but it's probably the only way through.

What really annoys me is that it was fine last year. I've purchased twice with no problems. And now they've made it into some big deal by just refusing business.

Thanks for your help.