I've just wasted the whole day trying unsuccessfully to order the books. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Just take my money, damnit! I've tried just about all the sites. All of them have guides, and all the guides are outdated. The fields have changed. Authentications changed. Credit Card options have changed. I tried to make do, but all sorts of problems pop out:
- First successful registration was with Yes24. Tried to order. "Book 4 currently not available for overseas shipping." Wtf? Tried the other sites.
- One repeatedly bugged me for a mobile phone number. It gives me an 8-number field to write down my mobile phone number, which is 11 numbers.
- For another, I finally filled out the form, click button, nothing happens. Repeat with 2 other browsers. Several times.
- For some of the sites, I did manage to get past the registration phase, but when it comes to payment, just about all of them say I have to use internet explorer and/or download plugins for it. Fair enough, I download and install a whole bunch of plugins that don't make me really happy. Input credit card number. Doesn't work.
- Another site asks me to choose the "vendor bank" before inputting a credit card number. Except looking at the list of choices, there's no way I'd have a bank account at say "Bank of Korea" (though I was quite tempted to walk to the one not too far from me and open one. But it'd make me feel really silly)
Finally, I come across egscan's guide to buy Noblesse. A miracle, someone mentions a site in English! Registration wasn't too hard too (compared to some of the other site. One was asking for my IBAN bank information and such, wtf?)
http://english.gmarket.co.kr/index.asp
Except when it came to authenticating my credit card, apparently my vendor doesn't support this thing called "3D support." What in the world is 3D support? Come to think of it, I suspect it's why my card didn't work on other websites either (harder to tell though, with the gibberish in the plugins that won't even display properly). Whatever happened to just using the code at the back of the card? And when I click on the "how does it work" link by the Visa page, I get a page not found . >: \ (and yes, my card Is a Visa card, I had no trouble paying my U.S.-based VPN with it a while back)
So if anyone has successfully ordered the books, Please tell me which site you used (not counting Aladin and its successor, since I'm not in North America). Gosh.
For those of you who do want to try, I suggest trying out the last link I provided. It seems to accept Paypal. I'll try to open a new paypal account tomorrow...
Edited by Mizura, 29 July 2013 - 11:23 AM.