Be careful when trying to pay for VIP.... I tried today twice - once through ccbill with visa and once through segpay with mastercard. Both transactions were immediately declined by the bank. Of course both banks fraud departments called my house within minutes. Problem is, I was at work (on a private wifi connection) and my wife was home. Now I have to come up with some story.....

Never heard of that happening to anyone else here either. Sounds like your banks are just being hyper vigilant and checking on fraud. (which can be a good thing of course in the case of real fraud) Tell your wife you were ordering something form ebay, and you didnt realize the billing was out of country and the bank caught that so you cancelled the order.

The trust cash option is pretty unattractive as well. I really don't want to walk into a bank and make a payment for TER to a teller who may or may not know me.

but it still sounds like a bank issue not a TER issue. Banks are stepping up their efforts to combat fraud. I was just travelling and my bank called me on my cell phone a minute after I used my credit card to pay a restaurant bill in another state! But I never had the problem with ccbill. And I have paid for other things with ccbill besides TER (porn sites) but I also haven`t used it for a few years now. Maybe if I tried now, the bank would check would chack.

... and I do have a wife, but I don't have a land line, only cell phones.  The fraud check call just went to my cell phone in my pocket.  I instantly get a call every time I order something and the charge comes from outside the US.

...I call and rip them a new one every time it happens. I don't have a wife/so. No one sees my bills, gets those calls but me. Thing is they don't call me they just reject the charge making me look like an ass. Happens with other things too. Nothing to do with my credit limit, it's fine. Years ago it wouldn't work in a strip club ATM.  

I disagree. I make charges all the time without issue. Something about ccbill and segpay set the banks off. Two different financial institutions declined the transaction immediately and froze my accounts (temporarily) for trying to pay here.

TER has nothing to do with ccbill or segpay. Those are just payment processing sites and they handle payments for all kinds of stuff. A possibility is since they handle payments for so many adult sites, maybe the banks are flagging them now, to prevent kids from signing up to adult sites with their parents' cards.?

...Visa has a problem. It's a bank issue. They are the ones stopping the charge and calling you not TER. My other cards work just fine when I pay for my VIP membership here.

I have never had a problem using a CC to by VIP on this site.  But, as they say, shit happens.

happened to me with segway.  card declined.  bank called to verify that some one had not stolen my card.

My bank or cc companies flag a transaction if is for payment outside of the US.
I have to use greendot.

They just see an account number.  I've never been questioned by a teller.  It's none of their business and they know it.  And I go to banks not near my home that I don't normally do business with.  I did it through the drive-thru last month.

The name of this website is not on the transaction. It says TC Direct or something. And I don't know any of the tellers anyway. I did get a phone call from Visa when I bought a P411 membership