Recharge Portal that accepts Amex?

[x720]

As the thread title says. Paytm has stopped supporting amex lately and I need to recharge my airtel data card. Airtel's own website doesn't support amex, and all portals I come across support only visa/MasterCard.

 

[Sushubh]

amex user huh? next you would seek a vertu smartphone with windows phone 8. :iomg:

 

[x720]

lol. Just a supplementary card. Have no other option for online transactions. In any case, any ideas, people?

 

[Sushubh]

http://www.twitter.com/Sushubh/status/303823686950076416

https://twitter.com/Paytm/status/303833094899789824?uid=2573571&iid=3acdb068-3905-4af6-a338-871dfa8fbbf1&nid=27+236

 

[Jonas]

Companies lose my respect when they don't support AMEX Customers, seriously!

 

[x720]

@adminAh, thanks for that

 

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[Sushubh]

well it does not really solve your problem. best is to keep some amount in Paytm wallet.

 

[mhsabir]

lol... As a young developer, I remember a couple of us cribbing about writing special Unit test cases & testing for Amex cards as they have only 15 digits instead of 16

Why cant these people be like others and have 16 digits in their cards

 

[x720]

hmm. I'm pretty sure they won't be adding support for amex anytime soon. Its been like this for a few months. Before that, amex cards worked flawlessly on Paytm

 

[mhsabir]

Question is - Is there a technical problem or a business decision.

 

[Sushubh]

i am assuming that the payment gateway that they used stopped supporting amex --by the way if you need to recharge something in emergency, i can transfer you funds on Paytm wallet (i imagine they have something like a gift card).

 

[x720]

Ah! This was primarily for the airtel half hour 3G plan! Nothing important Thanks a lot, though!

 

[mega_processor]

some third party sites like freedcharge might be having amex options..i am not sure,just a guess

 

[mhsabir]

I am not sure the gateway can decide on the fly to drop Amex as that would seriously affect the SLA's . Paytm would have been informed in advance of the gateway's business or otherwise decision to drop Amex & then they would have taken the business decision to continue with the gateway or get someone who supports Amex. So that in turn would be a business decision for them.

 

[whoru007]

x720 let me know if you still need any assistance.