What happened in the last few days makes me want to use other payment options - no VISA, no Mastercard anymore.
But I also want to continue buying from GOG, and recommending GOG.

So, what are the chances of getting any other payment options (paysafecard, click2pay, zeevex, playspan, discover, diners, amex, or whatever), and which one would be preferred?

Almost zero. Slight chance of AMEX, but don't count on it any time soon if at all. (GOG mentioned at one point of wanting to add american express but nothing seemed to come of it. Not even sure that was an "official" statement or just a random employee saying it'd be nice)

Unfortunately when you take a political stance you may end up missing out on things from those that don't share your views. :/

If Wikileaks had those as donation options too, don't you think that you'd be blacklisting them as well now? AmEx in particular is far worse.

Yea, and honestly 99% of the people boycotting MC/Visa/Paypal are going to forget about it in less than a week. These things never last. I doubt people will still be talking about wikileaks in a month.

If there's one lesson we should have learned recently it's that financial institutions are all self-serving bastards. Paypal might be particularly irredeemable. But ultimately it's hard to boycott something when there simply aren't better options out there.

People still use Diner's cards?

Just checking all options... I'm fairly open there, just want to direct my cash flow away from those bastards. And about "forgetting": if you close your account with one company and open a new one with another, that's pretty durable, forgetting or not.

But where to change to?

Well indeed, I would happily change banks over this. But the issue have made me realize that this triopoly means there are no alternatives. That's got to change, preferably starting here.

Honestly, I was not aware of them having such a track record?! But please, give me other examples?

Do we need two threads about the same topic? It's getting silly now.

Lets see. Freezing accounts, withholding payment, or pocketing your money for no apparent reason. Thye would claim suspicious activity, but give no details as to why. Many times their withholding of funds has no basis but you can't do a thing about it. They also ocassionally screw up by using the wrong conversion as in they mix-up the two rates. For example, one time they refunded my money. The canadian dollar was 0.92 at the time. Instead they said one canadian dollar was worth 1.08. I know the market fluctuates but it was clear as day they mixed up the rates. Of course they said, oh well, the dollar fluctuates. Yeah right, 16 cents in a day? I think not. So since you were cool about all that, it seems silly to complain they don't support wikileaks, who are hardly ethical themselves.

Despite those potential horror stories, Paypal is great for buying especially when you leave your paypal balance empty so they have nothing to take from you while protecting your card and bank details from other merchants.

Because they crossed a line now.
Being rude to their customers and such is one thing - but that may be just their way of doing business, maximizing profit by bad service.

But actively interfering with political issues this way, that is going to far. They have no qualms doing business with the KKK, nazi parties, extremist organisations, open supporters of terrorism - but informing the public is off-limits?!

If they were consistently amoral, I could live with that.


Yes, PayPal is infamous for that. You're certainly not the only one.

Partially - yes. It's a way of dealing with an unreliable businesspartner. I'd prefer a reliable one, if there is one.

I agree with the sentiment. But it's difficult to imagine an organisation that was intrinsically centred around money not being corrupted by it.