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I recently got into payment troubles in the Metaverse after purchasing a new headset. As the result of this I found an awful lot of users in the same boat - unusable Paypal accounts that ONLY Meta refuses to accept. This post is NOT about the payment issues, it is about what causes them..... Imagine...

LOL Reminds me of the payment issues we had at work a few months ago. I was asked to go and hire a big trailer because we had to get big things from another facility. My suggestion was to hire a moving van with a tail gate instead - you know, bad weather, safety, ease of things and so on. Too expens...

Despite nothing in the Meta help pages that I can find up to date, there IS still a way to delete your Meta account... What do you need to make it happen ? Preferably the Oculus app on your phone. There you tap on the MENU icon in the bottom right. Then on the GREEN Settings icon on the page that co...

Well, here is the final chapter and conclusion from my side: Despite several requests the Meta support still ignores my desire to give them their crap back, unused and still in the sealed shipping box. I now got 8 support responses basically only stating I shall link a credit card, try to make a pur...

Remember the 'good old days' ? You used whatever to create your Google or FB accounts and created as many as you liked. And like Klaus Schwab and his WEF stated for the pandemic - some things are a great opportunity indeed.... First we saw how we could use our Google accounts to access more and more...

If you want to start with VR then stay away from Meta and their products. If you already own one of their headset and want to upgrade consider the alternatives first and whether or not you accept the privacy strip down and tracking. Yes, I know you can fake you GPS position and use a disposable phon...

Well, as they said in the Apollo mission: Houston we got a problem.... After a rather insulting Email reply from the support again only telling me shall try to link a credit card to make purchases I requested another chat ticket to speed the conversation up. But I did not get a link to get to the ch...

And so the story continues..... Imagine my surprise in today's round of badly trained people in India providing support for Meta when I got to hear that they fixed it! Apparently the new purchase somehow blocked the store from accepting payments until the new device is actually paired with my accoun...

What about the support issue then ? Seeing your getting old device loose the official support in the form of firmware and security patches is bad enough. But at least you were able to keep using ALL you free and purchased apps and games. As we now know from Oculus Go users and users of other now vin...

Ok, we know the goals and what might be ahead sooner, rather than later. How can we avoid it? So far both Google and Meta let you create accounts using disposable- or freemailer Email addresses. In theory you could create a fake account for either provider or both to get your headset going. Sadly th...