[tgv]

Yesterday I tried to buy an from Google's Play Store for an Android tablet, on which I had installed an account with minimal information. Not wanting to hand out my credit card number to them, I bought one of those cards with prepaid credit. And guess what you need to fill in to redeem the card: your address and phone number. Why would that be needed? The answer: it isn't needed, but they want it, and they've got you by your balls. This is such awful abuse of their position.

And yes, I filled in a fake address, and then was not able to redeem the card. They need "more details", and the process can take several weeks. Google is evil in every pore.