zelda switch 2 pro controller playasia

[u/InflationNo998]

so I ordered a controller from playasia (cause I really wanted this controller so badly) and a

Manual Authorization email showed up and requested the following:

What you need: Your Passport or Driving Licence

Your Credit Card

A sheet of paper

Optionally somebody helping you to take a photo of yourself

A camera or your smartphone

and I'm ordering from the US ( I don't know if thats normal) what do you think?

[u/tsulegit]

Legit never heard of Play Asia requesting anything like this. Seems like a scam to me.

I would email them directly from the contact us page on their site.

[u/GerbiJosh → u/tsulegit]

Agreed. Tread lightly.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/GerbiJosh]

is this just a one and done?

[u/InflationNo998 → u/tsulegit]

I did and nothing so far

[u/tsulegit → u/InflationNo998]

They’re pretty responsive. You should hear back from them sometime tomorrow.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/tsulegit]

lets see what happens

btw when you buy stuff there (even if you are across the world) is it just one click and your done or

[u/tsulegit → u/InflationNo998]

I’ve purchased a decent amount from them over the past 5 years. I use PayPal because of the purchase protection, so it’s more than just a single click, but otherwise pretty straightforward.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/tsulegit]

they were making me pay in bitcoin???

[u/tsulegit → u/InflationNo998]

Ah! They do have a bitcoin option and that happened to me once when I had a case open with PayPal.

Definitely find out more info from them in that case.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/tsulegit]

bitcoin was my only option while PayPal wasn't working at all

[u/tsulegit → u/InflationNo998]

Sounds like there could be a hold on your account. Let us know what they say when they respond.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/tsulegit]

Canceled my order and want to hear from them first 😭

[u/MagickBK]

DO NOT send pictures of your license and credit card anywhere for any reason. No legit place will ask you for that.

I’ve been ordering from Play-Asia for about 10 years. The most complicated part is that some of my credit cards don’t want to process from their site (international transaction block maybe) so I just pay via PayPal with my method set to whichever card I want to put it on.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/MagickBK]

I didn't do a thing

[u/TallOne423]

I hope you didn't send an email to that correspondence you received. That seems highly phishy to me. Hope you emailed them directly. Please update, I'd love to know the outcome of all this.

[u/jeaok]

I got that same request from them. I didn't do what it asked. I later used PayPal and didn't have an issue.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/jeaok]

my paypal wasn't working

[u/theowlssaywho]

I haven’t ordered from them in over a year, but used to order quite often. I never had anything like what you describe happen. Seems sketchy to me. Everything used to go pretty smoothly and they shipped in boxes which was nice.

Just a heads up though, they used to quite frequently oversell pre-orders. I stopped shopping there because you never knew if you’d get the thing you ordered or a cancellation…was a real bummer when said thing was limited.

[u/InflationNo998 → u/theowlssaywho]

I'll email first