Gold Card Reader - Maintnance

[matthew]

Originally Posted by Ido

I think you need to have a total of 5000 ped deposited all time ... not currently on your ingame account ...

Still 25$ is not a bad price for the gold card (considering i just spent 40 on fscking batteries ) if your account is wiorth more than 1000 ped total id encourage you to get a GC

ohh and powering it from USB wouldnt be that hard ... just throw out the batteies and use the 5V USB power and downgrade it to 3V ... for sure cheaper than adding 2 batteries ... but maybe no "standard" devices available that do this

yeah, still i think ive only depo'ed about half of what is needed for the "free" GC, but after reading this i think i will make the effort to buy 1.
$25 isn't a bad price when u think of all the security you are getting so there probable well worth it...

[Nickstar]

i work in a car parts store in new zealand.we retail the batteries at 5.40 each,they are common,if shop has only 1 just use a cr2032 does same thing and u only need 1.

[Ido]

For all those interested i got a reply from MA support...

They said that if your Reader stops working you can send it over and they will replace it ... if they find it working you will have to cover the transport costs...

Also when you ship the reader it is possible to disable the Gold Card security for your account so that you can still play

Personaly i wouldnt dare disable the additional security wouldnt want to loose all my belongings in EU in case someone actually already has my account login and password :P

So i guess i'll be buying an additional reader/more (cheaper) batteries sometime end of next year or so

Best Regards
Ido

[Moribund]

This thread is over a month old, though but.

Originally Posted by AJack10600

Good to know surprised that your batteries are out after 2 years though... anyone else been having the GC reader for longer ?

I've had my GC and reader for over 3 years, and still working fine.

[Hannibal Starke]

dag yo - i got my gc stuff little less than 6 months ago... and the dang thing stopped working last night after a ctd

guess they were cleaning out the old stock with that freebie giveaway deal there...

EDIT: anyone know what the buttons on this puppy do?

[Starfinder]

Yeah.. you could do as sugegsted earlier with the AD/DC converter.. of you could do as a m8 of mine.. build it into the keyboard...

http://matthewphillips.co.uk/index.asp?page=eucard

[Ido]

Originally Posted by Starfinder

Yeah.. you could do as sugegsted earlier with the AD/DC converter.. of you could do as a m8 of mine.. build it into the keyboard...

http://matthewphillips.co.uk/index.asp?page=eucard

AWSOME solution

btw. buttons dont do anything