By some miracle, divine intervention, alien interference, or blind luck, I did finally get this to work. I now have a lifetime license for AnyDVDHD. It really should not have been this difficult, but it is what it is.
I have chronicled my long and arduous journey in the form of the following screenshots, may they assist you on your long trek across the cyberplain as well.
I paid with Bitcoin, and used a U.S.-based bitcoin provider, Circle Pay. There is actually another guide on this forum for Circle Pay (which I followed at first), but my experience ended up being a little more involved.
To complete this procedure, you will need a debit card from your bank, your driver's license or state-issued picture ID, and an Android or Apple smartphone.
1. We will start with the main Redfox order page:
Add the products you'd like to purchase, then click Checkout.
2. Fill out your personal information on Redfox's order page, then click Next:
3. Review your order data, and note the amount of Bitcoin you will be paying. You don't need to write it down, but just make a mental note. Click Order when you're ready.
4. You will now get a final order page from Redfox that contains a QR code and a Bitcoin address (a long series of letters and numbers). This is a very important page.
Leave this page up in its own tab while you do the remaining steps.
5. You are going to use Circle Pay as your payment processor. The purpose of Circle Pay is that it will use your bank debit card to withdraw money from your bank account, it will convert it to Bitcoin, and then send the Bitcoin to Redfox.
Go to the
Circle Pay web site and create an account (if you don't already have one). Creating the account requires an e-mail address, choosing a password, and then verifying your e-mail. (Circle will send an e-mail to you, and it will contain a link you will have to click). Once you have completed these steps, your account will be created and verified. Now log into your Circle Pay account:
6. There is an option in the settings of your Circle Pay account to use 2-factor authentication, which I normally do. I turned it on, and upon subsequent logins, it asked me to type in the 2-factor authentication code from Google Authenticator:
This is an optional step, but one that can increase your security. You can read more about the Google Authenticator and 2-factor authentication
here.
7. Once you are logged into Circle, it is recommended that you switch the currency on your account to Bitcoin. This lets you see your account balances and transfers in terms of Bitcoin rather than dollars. To do this, go to the pull-down menu in the upper right with your name on it, select Settings, then select Currency. Change the currency to Bitcoin:
8. Next is to add a payment method. This is where you will link your debit card to the Circle account so that circle can transfer money out of your bank account for conversion to Bitcoin. To do this, go to the pull-down menu in the upper right with your name on it, select Settings, then select Cards and Banks. Add your debit card:
Circle does have an option to add a credit card instead of a debit card, but there are 3-4% fees associated with credit card use. Debit cards incur no fee, so I recommend that.
As a side note, you may ask how Circle is going to make money if there is no fee for debit card use. The answer is that when Circle converts your dollars to Bitcoin, you will be getting an exchange rate that is less than what it should be. Thus for payment with Circle, you will have to pay a few percent more dollars to get the same amount of Bitcoin that you would get if you bought Bitcoins at the actual exchange rate. In this transaction, the raw exchange rate for 0.15065021 would be $88.55, but Circle's exchange rate made that $90.72. That means I paid a fee of $2.17.
9. After you've added a payment method, the next step is to buy Bitcoins. (For me, this was actually interrupted by the ID validation that I'll go through in the next steps, although some people have said that Circle didn't ask them to do that. I guess I'm special.) What this will do is transfer dollars from your bank account using your debit card, and put Bitcoins in your circle account. Click on the Account link at the top, and then the Buy Bitcoin button:
Once you click on the Buy Bitcoin button, it will begin the ID verification process:
If for whatever reason you are not asked to verify your ID, then do not complete the Buy Bitcoin process, but instead go to the Send Money process in step 12.
10. I started going through the ID verification process, but they need 3 things: Photo of the front of your driver's license, photo of the back of your driver's license, and a picture of yourself. This requires a webcam attached to your desktop computer in order to do it on the desktop. I did not have a webcam, so when I got to the end, it told me to verify my ID using their mobile app, which will allow you to take pictures of the driver's license and a selfie.
11. So, at this point I downloaded the Circle app on my Android phone. I don't have screenshots from there, but basically you need to take a picture of the front of your driver's license, the back of your driver's license, and then take a selfie. The app then uploads all 3 to Circle, and it verifies that the ID is valid and that the selfie matches the ID picture. This only took a few minutes and then the Circle web site said I was verified:
12. So now you sign back into Circle. Interestingly, once you are verified, you no longer will have to do the payment transaction in 2 steps like we were starting to do before (1. Buy Bitcoin, 2. Send Bitcoin to Redfox). Now you can do it all in one step. Click the Send Money link at the top:
Fill out the form as follows:
A. Copy the Bitcoin address from the Redfox window you still have open in another tab (the one from step 4) into the "Send To" field.
B. Copy the Bitcoin amount from the Redfox window you still have open in another tab (the one from step 4) into the "Amount" field. The screenshot above shows a dollar symbol in there, but I think this was just a glitch. Yours should not show a dollar symbol in the Amount field, and the units should be BTC (Bitcoin).
C. Choose your debit card from the payment methods.
D. Click continue.
13. Review the transaction details. If you have Google 2-factor authentication turned on, you will need to enter the code form the Google Authenticator. Then click Send Money.
(Splitting this into 2 messages due to forum limits).