Buying an AI subscription from Italy
Postepay and prepaid cards are the usual plan here and the usual failure. We never learn why a particular card was refused, because no card reaches this checkout; the order is settled on-chain. The subscription still lands on the account you already use, which is the part people worry about.
Prepaid and gift-style cards fail on recurring subscriptions more reliably than they succeed, whatever the reason inside the merchant. A card that works for a one-off purchase is no evidence that it works for a monthly charge, and a rejection is not a shortage of funds. We cannot see the decline, so we cannot appeal it either; the fix is to stop using a card.
Some accounts are asked to complete verification before a plan behaves normally. That service is 50 CNY, about €7, and it is billed separately from the subscription order itself. If the verification fails, the whole amount is refunded, because there is no partial result worth delivering. Nothing in that flow needs your password or a login code.
Claude Max 5x is 523 CNY, about €70, where the official vendor equivalent for the same tier is 668 CNY, and Max 20x is 1047 CNY, roughly €140, against 1336. Both cover one month on your own account, and a heavy week is easier to reason about against a flat price than against metered output. A refund is prorated by unused days, with a replacement offered first.
We are an independent reseller and no invoice is issued in the Italian sense; there is also no mail server behind this shop, so no receipt is ever sent to you. The documents that exist are the order number, the on-chain transaction hash, a checkout screenshot and the Telegram thread. Most people here buy the stablecoin first through a peer-to-peer route.