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When using ebay depending on the seller.. you may not Need an account. Paypal now offers for you to pay for your purchases (not just through ebay I believe), without actually registering an account. You would need a major credit card to do this though. If you are unsure, ask the seller a question "do you accept payments through paypal, and do they need to be verified paypal accounts?" If they do not need to be verified, then you can bid, win and pay! Setting up a paypal account is free and quite simple as well. Just go to https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/home and click register, they will walk you through the whole process! hope this helps!

I have looked through some information, and I do not think you can verify with a gift card visa.. or any brand really. I would think the logic behind this is that visa gift cards (or other brands) can not verify you are who you say you are. Because unlike a real credit card, gift cards do not store your information, or have a billing address for you. There is nothing through a credit reporting agency to compare against. The whole purpose of being verified is that they can guarentee the people whom you are sending money is that "yes this is a real person, and there is funds available to cover the expenses." If you do not have a bank account, nor a Real credit card, the alternative option is to ask someone you know who does have a paypal account linked to either a bank or credit card to send money to your account. If the money is in your account you will be able to purchase or subscribe to things with paypal, as the money is physically there at the time of purchase. Without a credit card Or bank account, I dont believe there is a way to get money Into your account (aside from asking someone to transfer money from their account to yours). hope this helps!

Hi there! This may not be the most helpful, but it should at least maybe point you in the right direction. To pay for something on a website and then be taken to the download area, or receive it by email after payment processing you will need to log into your paypal account and look for "IPN" (instant payment notification) https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_admin_IPNIntro this is the technical overview article https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_admin_IPNIntro this will allow you to download the manual for IPN (as far as I know posting links is OK as long as it helps with the question being asked, please let me know if this is not the case) If you would like to offer a discount when both the sheet music, and MP3 files are purchased I believe you may need to set up a 3rd button on your website, OR create a discount code, so that when paying customers can enter the discount themselves. Hope this helps some!

Hi I am new on the site, this is my first post!This particular subject caught my attention for a few reasons, the main one being I am by no means a technology expert but I do love to play and learn the tedious ins and out. I started looking into 360 problems because several of my friends were having issues with their consoles, I personally did not own one. One of them offered theirs as a experiment and learning box.. boy do I appreciate that! I have since opened and repaired to the best of my ability around 30 consoles. So far only 2 of them ended up malfunctioning after "repair."If microsoft sent your console back with a void warranty sticker, its probably because the seal on your console is broken (the one under the faceplate). If that was cracked, ripped or cut they will not cover any errors as they cannot prove the fault is in their work or something you have done to the console (replaced drives, modified etc). If you were to call back and tell them that the sticker has been removed or otherwise altered, but would still like to have the console repaired, they generally will BUT at your expense not theirs ($120-$220 from what I have heard). Not to defend Microsoft as the failure rate of the 360's does seem awfully high to me personally, but they have started to release the new consoles with an additional heatsink, 2 for the graphics car and one for the CPU.. which with any luck will help the failure rate decline.You didnt mention the error that you were having, or if it was the red rings. In my experience, even once you get the secondary error code the problem is almost always related to the same thing. So far that thing seems to be the GPU (graphics card). Again I must re-iterate I am not an expert, these are soley my opinions from what I have seen and/or read. Microsoft is using a lead free solder to connect the chips to the motherboard, the lead free solder cannot with stand the extreme temperature fluctuations that comes from the 360 (cold when off, hoter when doing less graphically intense things like music, and quite hot for games). The soldered connections start to break and the cards start to lift (if you google this, you can probably find xray photos of motherboards showing this). Adding to the lead free solder issue is the X-Clamps they use to hold the heat sinks to the chips and board. The pressure coming from these bends the board during play or when the machine is hot.. even a slight warping can damage solder joints and wires (traces). When "repairing" a 360 I generally take the x-clamps off, replace the thermal paste with a very high quality one, and I do NOT re-attach the x-clamps, instead I have found building support posts with regular nylon washers for the legs of the heatsinks works very well, without adding to board warping during temperature fluctuations. This may have gotten a bit complicated and for that I apologise. If it isnt against board rules, I would be happy to share in more detail HOW i replace the x-clamps and thermal paste. Or feel free to PM me for me details. I hope this has helped somewhat.Oh, last thought, if your warranty is void, there are plenty of websites and physical stores offering 360 repair for a relatively low fee of $50. Google should bring up plenty!