Once I chose PayPal as my payment option and filled in my details I was presented with a screen asking me to enter my credit card details. Credit card details? What do they need my credit card details for? I have AU$28 in my PayPal account and Skype should only be charging me about $6. I canceled the payment and tried again only to get the same problem. I did some research and it seems you can no longer use your PayPal balance to pay for anything on Skype, or if you can you need to enter your credit card details first (some even saying then needed to add multiple credit cards to their account).

So what is someone like me supposed to do? Someone who has no credit card. Here are all the options for people in Australia:

• Paypal – don’t have a credit card so I cant use it.
• Visa – don’t have a visa card.
• mastercard – don’t have a mastercard.
• POLi – never heard of it so I wouldn’t want to use it. some kind of internet banking thing though
• Diners – what is ‘Diners’? Isn’t that what I’m called when I go to a restaurant? Or do they mean Diners club? Why don’t they just say that? (and I don’t have one anyway)
• Moneybrookers – same reason as POLi
• Regulat bank transfer – Sure I would but this would be too much hassle for me.

So goodbye Skype you just lost a customer. Maybe you can e-mail me when you let me use my PayPal balance.