Trying to be a chess.com member

Can someone tell me, can you only pay chess.com by credit care, paypal,or can you use your own bank account?

You can do a bank transference. I'm gonna redirect an e-mail I received about the very same question. Check your pm.

I'm gonna post it here, for future references:

"The payments we accept are; moneybookers.com, paypal, money order, cheque, credit card or bank transfer.

Please do not send cash payments.

If you're sending in a cheque or money order, please remember to include your chess.com username and the membership you are paying for. This is the address to send it too

Chess.com
PO Box 60400
Palo Alto, CA 94306

OR

 you can pay for a premium membership by bank transfer.

Please note that there is a $10 bank transfer fee associated with all bank transfer payments. You must add this to the total price of your order.

You may refer to this page for current membership prices.

 Once you have sent the funds please let us know, providing your full name, your bank name, and the amount you sent by bank transfer. Once the funds are received the premium membership purchase will be added to your Chess.com account.

Below are the details for making a bank transfer on Chess.com:

Bank Name: Wells Fargo Bank, NA
Address: 420 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94104
Account #: 5739538873
Routing #: 121042882
SWIFT: WFBIUS6S  

"

(You should also wait for a staff member to post and confirm it)

It takes a lot more than money to be a Chess.com member

I'd say it doesn't take anything other than registering, but alright. One has to have that special inner fire...

Not really. One must have a certain degree of hopelessness to be a true member

Ennui that can only be relieved by schadenfreude seems essential.

Very interesting word, "schadenfreude". Thanks! I like this definition from Adorno:

 “largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate”.

As much as I love Adorno, I feel the more appropriate path now would be to make jokes about experiencing schadenfreude at the members of others.

"...at the members of others."?  You lost me

Juvenile phallic humour, I'm afraid.

I'm too stupid Maybe a week or two ago, I was writing this long comment in one of the threads, and I had to stop because I kept writing the word, "member" so many times! I got embarrassed

That's nothing: last week I was playing bananagrams with my roommate, and because I kept beating her she wrote my name and crossed it with "poops;" after this point, we made a tacit shared vow to use up the rest of the letters in spelling out various dirty/sexual words/euphemisms.  We managed to use them all, but mostly through blatant cheats like "diq" and "vaj."

The cable guy was slightly bemused when he saw that all splayed across the coffee table the next morning, anyway.

That's the first time I've heard of, "bananagrams"

Same here.  I thought my playing method was much better.

That is why I have a basic membership, why pay money just to remove ads? I don't play but one torunament at a time anyway. But, I'm sure if you were on here a whole lot, it would "pay" off (sorry, just had to use that!).

Don't know much about Adorno, except they mke pretty good pizza for a pre-packaged, grocery store variety -- if you don't burn the crust.

Once knew a guy with a cleft-phallic, but had it surgically corrected.