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Yes, it was from EA, via Paypal. My account was suspended January 9th, 6 days after payment.
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Katherine and others,
What I did to skirt this issue was to have a Paypal debit card issued for that account at acts just like a checking acct debit card would....it has a Visa/MC logo but instead of drawing money out of your checking it draws money out of the available balance in your paypal account, and the transaction is instantaneous just like a cc or regular debit transaction would be.
Also too, if you can't do that for whatever reason, if you look on the left hand column of your paypal page, there's a new plug in that allows you to create 'Secure Cards' that generate debit card numbers for one-time usage that allow you also to pull funds from your paypal account. This would be perfect for anybody who did not qualify for the paypal debit card for whatever reason.
Just thought I'd bring that up to alleviate some of the headache people seem to be having trying to pay directly through paypal. Plus, doing it this way, you pay just the $9.95, not the $13.99 or whatever it was that direct Paypal payers have to pay, or having to buy 3 months worth of game time at a time.
ETA: Let's see if this works, here's the direct link on the
Paypal Plug in I was talking about.
ETA2: Looks like the link will work, but you have to log into your paypal account to see it. If you can't get the link to work, the Plug in is listed on the left hand side of your page after you log in, under the heading "Tools".
Hope this helps!