I sure hope it is not PayPal.

Please add Amazon-Payments to the payment options :)
(Already voted for ;) )

Huh? They have a real merchant account registered in Cyprus, you pay via it each time you input card data on GOG. And Paypal, which isn't a real merchant account. (Neither is Amazon for that matter.)

Don't card companies (mastercard/visa) handle the payment processes?

There is nothing wrong with Paypal

VISA/Mastercard or PayPal.

Until they lock your account because you're overseas and can't figure out that you're over seas even after you authenticate yourself and they lock the account again. The only way that I can use PayPal is if I use a VPN to give me a local IP back home.

Or, if you happen to have a huge amount of payments in the account and they lock it for "ivnestigative purposes" as in they want to make interest on it and refuse to give the money to the party that the payment was supposed to go to, and don't refund it either.

Or, that brilliant bit where they assume ownership of the funds in the middle.

Yes, there's nothing wrong with PayPal, that liberal use of napalm couldn't disinfect.

What is especially jarring is that they aren't even a bank in the US. All the power, none of the oversight.

For me it's all the same. Paypal just takes the money directly and VISA with one week delay. VISA takes additional 1.5% fee but has a better exchange rate, so the real amounts drawn are the same. However I would trust VISA a bit more since PayPal is less regulated - at least I think so. No sure if it is really the truth.

Use them only with a linked cc and have no extra money in your Paypal account itself. If they decide to do some "customer protection" inmediately contact your card issuer/bank and have them do a chargeback on your expenses marked with the paypal tag, most banks have procedures in place to deal with this kind of crap and take no shit from them.

Personal experience: I was refunded 2400 dollars from a purchase i made from Newegg when Paypal froze the transaction to investigate, Santander did a chargeback to recover the money after i made a claim and refunded me within the day.

In Europe Paypal is a bank. That doesn't make it any better, but at least they can't chicken out on many things like they can do in the US.

I try avoiding them if possible. But often they are the best and safest option.

There's that, but they also pissed me off with the way they treat the merchants. It's really, really easy to flag a charge as fraudulent, but there is no way of flagging a transaction that was previously flagged as fraudulent as legitimate if it is legitimate. Which makes it a real headache when you need to do so. I'm not even sure how you would go about reversing a reversal, which sometimes happens automatically.

The reason I'm asking is that I do not want PayPal to get their hands on my cc details.
It seems that in the year 2009 the payment data was processed by "DataCash":

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/credit_card_safety

So if you can confirm that PayPal is not involved at all when paying via Visa/Master Card
then I'll be completely happy.
(Afaik sometimes there is an option when you can use PayPal to pay via CC, but I
explicitly would not like that )