Can't buy KSP with a credit card

[C128user]

I tried to purchase KSP from the KSP Store.  However, I got to Step 2, and it did not show my choice of payment (Credit Card).  It showed PayPal instead.  Would there be any way of contacting the KSP Store for this?  I could not find it.

 

[linuxgurugamer]

I believe that credit cards are handled by PayPal

 

[Ruedii]

Yes, You can pay with credit card through paypal.

This is more cost effective for small companies, because PayPal's fees are less than those for processing the credit card directly. 

It also saves on website setup, as handling credit card and other bank information is actually quite expensive if you bother to do it properly, because it requires significantly more expensive encryption handling. 

Finally it is more secure for the user to use well known and trusted third party to handle credit card transactions.  Paypal was created as an offshoot of eBay expressly because of the need for such services online.  (eBay was being held back at the time by the lack of good payment options.)

(Looks like LinuxGuruGamer beat me to the first line of my post.)

Edited March 29, 2017 by Ruedii
acknowledging LinuxGuruGamer's post

[Vanamonde]

This question has been moved to Kerbal Network. Good luck getting it resolved. 

[fourfa]

22 hours ago, Ruedii said:

Paypal was created as an offshoot of eBay expressly because of the need for such services online.  (eBay was being held back at the time by the lack of good payment options.)

This is not correct.

Edited March 30, 2017 by Red Iron Crown
Made link way less condescending.

[Ruedii]

On 3/28/2017 at 11:04 PM, fourfa said:

This is not correct.

OK, yes, my statement was a little oversimplified.

eBay had bought PayPal shortly after it's IPO when it was still a rapidly growing tech firm, and helped it maintain it's rapid growth that gave it an actual leg up on traditional banks that were entering the online bill payment industry.   It's unclear how much of the company was invested in by eBay and it's backers before the IPO.  eBay had hedged it's bets in the online billing industry before that point, and wanted to insure at least one high quality service would prevail.  

They had associations with at least 4 major providers including PayPal and a small service they had created called BillPoint.  BillPoint was merged into PayPal when eBay bought PayPal and the BillPoint trademark was later sold to a new subsidiary of Wells-Fargo.

 

[Vanamonde]

We're getting off-topic here.