Well. Turns out that Borderlands 2 was released in the UK yesterday, on the PSN. For some reason, physical copies don't get released until tomorrow.
The trip to Hell stems from the fact that I put twenty pounds in our bank account this morning, ostensibly for the purpose of buying BL2. When I tried to buy the game, there was a problem with the card. Half an hour of attempting to re-input the deets in my PSN account, I decided "fuck the PSN" and tried ordering it from Amazon, where I encountered an unholy shitstorm of epic proportions. After fagging around with those assholes for an hour, I checked our balance, unsure as to why the money wasn't being accepted no matter where I tried.
Turns out we were £80 overdrawn. This shouldn't be possible on our account; rather than overdrawing, any given transaction should, normally, simply be refused. And then we noticed something. PayPal. PayPal somehow over-rides the "do not overdraw" thing on our account. So when we ordered a pizza last week, and when I bought my iPod, PayPal took the money, even though we didn't have it.
Oh, actually, not quite true - we did have the money - at the time of purchase. PayPal didn't take the money until this morning. After all bills had been paid, but not after a good food-shop. We are fucked. Well and truly.
Luckily, though, not all is lost as various people still owe us money, and Gemma has a pretty good system with her family (they borrow money, they pay it back when we need it, and vice-versa. Works well). We're not going to die. All bills have been paid, which is the important part. It's just the principle of the thing. How the fuck can PayPal take money that we don't have? I'm very leery of this. I'd much rather be told "sorry, you can't fucking afford this, asshole" than "no problem! Oh, you don't have it? No worries, we'll just take it anyway and let you stew over the details". Think I'll be avoiding PayPal for a while, that's for sure.
Did I say "cunts" in a derisive way yet? No? Okay, then.
Cunts.
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