As recorded at collection: Example of a PLUS payment approved in the US region

This is an account of attempting a PLUS subscription payment after changing the region and access environment. Payment was made with a Taiwan-region card, whose first digits are 5378. Payment was declined all three times in the Philippines region, but approved on the first attempt in the US region.

In the Philippines region, uzumaru's NAT environment was used, an access environment where multiple users share the same internet address. On the first attempt, a regular browser with its language unchanged was used with full proxy settings, settings that bypass the entire internet connection. On the next two attempts, even a fingerprint browser simulation environment that makes browser information appear to be from another environment was used, but payment was declined on all attempts. In the US region, DMIT's LAX EB internet address, a regular browser, and full proxy settings were used, and payment was approved on the first attempt after the browser's default language was changed.

The Philippines account is an existing account registered in '23 and has never used a membership. The US account used regular PLUS for 3 months with an Apple gift card and did not select the 0 yuan trial. The poster thinks the card's first digits, 5378, might match a number used in Kazakhstan, and speculates that the payment results may differ because of the low-price region itself or the high usage of the NAT IP address. They also ask other users to share their experiences.