from Hacker News

How to pay online without a credit card?

by toutouastro on 5/18/13, 5:22 PM with 8 comments

how can you pay online without having a credit card?

  • by mikecane on 5/18/13, 5:43 PM

    There are pre-pay debit cards from AmEx, VISA, and MasterCard in most supermarkets, pharmacies, and other places. You put money on those. The downside are the monthly, per-transaction, and reload fees.

    EDIT to add: There are also Gift Cards for iTunes, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and many others that sell online. That's another way to pay. The downside is having a balance too small to spend on anything without getting another card.

  • by happycloset on 5/18/13, 8:43 PM

    Paypall.

    Question where do you get dummie credit card info? I used to be able to watch movies online free but now there always are asking for credit info to sign up to watch a free movie. So any answers?

  • by jamesjguthrie on 5/19/13, 12:21 AM

    In the UK you can use GoCardless. They can set up a direct debit instruction for a bank account.

  • by Devlin_Donnelly on 5/19/13, 12:57 AM

    Paypal or Bitcoin - though only a small number of businesses accept Bitcoin as payment.

  • by willcate on 5/18/13, 7:47 PM

    toutouastro -- are you including Bank acct. check-cards (i.e. ATM cards), which usually can be used just as would a VISA or MasterCard?

  • by Casseres on 5/18/13, 7:32 PM

    PayPal connected to a bank account.

  • by terrykohla on 5/18/13, 7:47 PM

    www.moneypak.com/