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I was busy with exams but was really shocked when I heard of PayPal disappointing policies for our Indian friends and readers. Unfortunately from 1st March 2011, PayPal made changes to the User Agreement for Indian users to comply with Reserve Bank of India regulations. Some Significant changes to the agreement were:
- Export related payments for goods and services must not exceed $500.
- Any balance or future payments must not be used to buy goods or services but transferred to a bank account within 7 days from the receipt of payment.
- Credit/Debit cards must be used for payment processing through Paypal
The above information can be verified at Paypal-apac.com/india/
Many questions are revolving as to why PayPal had to take such strict steps in order to comply with RBI Guidelines but no matter whatever the reason may be Indian fellows really need tonnes of solution to keep their online money transfer going smooth.
I have got a solution that might be helpful to my Indian friends as well as for people from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt where PayPal is banned. My Next post will contain a practical solution to use PayPal in Banned Countries and will also be helpful to Indian users who are currently in a not much favoring state.
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16 comments:
Waiting for your solution mohd_
karan chauhan
Welcome back Bro..
Hope your exams were awesome.
About the post
The only solution right now is either use debit/credit cards for online payment or switch to moneybookers or alertpay. The second option doesn't guarantee that your problem is solved forever because as more people switch to other options RBI can impose these rules on moneybookers and alertpay as well in future.
Another solution for payments is using VCC but not a very good idea I think.
As for receiving money is concerned here is an eg. what you can do.
Eg. You are about to receive 1000 USD from someone but the limit is 500 USD. So what you can do is get that 1000 in two transactions of 500 USD each. It doesn't matters how many times in a month you receive 500 USD.
The rules are not fully implemented yet in all accounts. Some are able to send money as they used to do before and some cannot. Its just a matter of time when the rules are fully implemented.
Although I don't see that anything is gonna change in these pathetic rules you can still take a step forward a make a petition on the following site informing RBI how these rules affects you.
Here is the site where you can file your petition:
Internet Entrepreneurs of India's Petition to RBI
Thank You
Samsexy98
@Karan
I am going to publish it today buddy.
@Sam
Bhavesh! How are you pal? Yes Alhamdulillah they went just fine. :d
And thanks for those beautiful new ways. I will surely share them on the post with attribution. Though I would need some more explaination on VCC. How widely is moneybookers and alertpay used?
I am fine right now.
VCC (Virtual Credit Card) is somewhat like a temporary credit card you can say. It is valid just for just 24 hours. Not all banks provide this service. HDFC Net Safe provides a VCC.
To create a VCC you need to have an actual credit/debit card. After creation you get a different 16 digit no. and CVV no. etc etc. which is not related to your actual credit/debit card. By this you can shop online without worrying because it will expire in 24 hrs. and also you can set a limit of how much to use in that VCC. So VCC is for some one who do not want to pay online regularly or for people who are concerned about the security. For people who pay regularly online then attaching a credit/debit card to paypal is best option so far I think.
And about alert pay and money bookers, I can say that money bookers is now getting popular after this paypal issue. Many people are switching to them because these rules are only imposed on paypal at the moment. But it will take time for online retailers because not all of them uses Money Bookers at the time because paypal was ruling but I guess they will start adding money bookers as an option for payment as well. Again its just a matter of time :)
use it...
Beben Koben
wekekekekkk :P
i hope that will be help ;)
@Bhavesh
You deserve an applause for the kind help. I thanked you in the post -> How To Use PayPal In Iran, Egypt and Pakistan?
@Mohammad
Yup I saw that :)
Though there was no need of it Bro :)
Hello Mohammad,
Just wanted to know is it safe to open up a paypal account as an Indian resident and go on adhering to the rules given thereby.
Thanks for answering.
@Hetal
With current new policies Indians have to face some big restrictions. In short your account is limited. If you can create an account abroad provided you have a relative there or you have dual nationality then its far better preferred. You will enjoy reading some of the ways you can create PP account in this post -> How To Use PayPal In Iran, Egypt and Pakistan?
Hello,
But what if we do not have any reliable person abroad?
@hetal
Then in that case you will have to look for alternative methods as shared by many commentators on this post -> http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/how-to-use-paypal-in-iran-egypt-and.html
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it is interesting.. I've already fitted one at my website http://www.ronybc.com
i have more solutions:
for paypal you can make entropay VCC and can verify your account...visit entropay.com
now you may ask why entropay....the reason is "it is not a temporary card it will be activated till you have balance in your card may be for months or years...."
now make your paypal account with some different country name such as UK where there is no restriction for users.
now you are eligible to make purchase using your paypal balance..
if you want to redeem money find some nearest local business account user of paypal...transfer your fund to his account so that you can get back your cash by him..
I have made an entropay account 24th June with funding resource of my AXis bank debit card Mastercard, my VCC got verified after 2 days with PP code, I have sent total 268$ to my friend on 28th June,
but today 29th of June I can't send money to anyone.
My paypal account status in now 0$ as I withdraw money to my bank.
But tomorrow when I have sent money PP my account has 18$
wats the actual problem
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Raise your voice against paypal and Rbi policy here.Go india Go
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