The original post: /r/usenet by /u/Fantastic-Turnover20 on 2025-01-02 19:38:42.

Hi Folks, Just wanted to share my experience/thoughts and see if anyone has done similar.

I’ve just used my Turkish FUPS debit card to pay the a lifetime VIP membership on a Usenet indexer without issue. I haven’t used my FUPS account card in about 6-9 months since I left Turkish Netflix after the account sharing clampdown. I had some money left on my my FUPS bank account that was going unused so I just used it to get the VIP account, it worked fine as you would expect from an official visa card.

Going forward it’s seems to me to be a pretty safe/secure way of paying for a Usenet provider for uploading too. I know not many people have a FUPS account and going forward new FUPS account can’t be open without an actually Turkish ID cards but for those of us in the EU and USA who beat that restriction it seems like a nice alternative to using bitcoin.

Just wondering any Usenet users here have done similar ? Any pitfalls in my idea ?