Paypal Philippines - send only? or can receive as well.

@ainee82 (618)
Philippines
February 3, 2007 9:14pm CST
i've been seeing paypal in a Philippine bank website. so i've tried signing up. to my disappointment it wont approve of my cyber eon account and have told me that the bank might have denied it. sigh.. tsk tsk. another thing is that i have read in some news that you can now use paypal in the philippines but it only has a send only policy and doesn't have the receive payments feature. but one of my friends told me that you can now receive through paypal. However, my friend's not sure if he could withdraw it because he had used those funds to buy other stuffs on the net again. So now i'm more confused. Can we really use paypal? How? Is it only for sending and not for receiving? if we could receive it, can we withdraw it through our debit cards?
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jillann
@jillann (779)
• Philippines
18 Oct 07
Hi! I just want to inform to all pinoys in myLot, Paypal is now available in the Philippines. You can now be able to send and receive money from Paypal. Spread the good news =)
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ainee82
@ainee82 (618)
• Philippines
20 Dec 07
hey! thanks for informing me. i haven't logged in my mylot account for God knows how long! thank you again.
jhanna
@jhanna (334)
• Philippines
7 Sep 07
I have the same problem with my EON account. It says my credit card must denied by my bank. I read from other forums that activation of EON account to be enrolled to PayPal would take two weeks from the day you activated it on unionbankph website. It really pissed me off. I waited one week to get my EON card and then waited another a week to get in activated and registered online through their website and now this? WTF!!!
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ainee82
@ainee82 (618)
• Philippines
13 Oct 07
i have found out that eon accounts track down your old eon accounts and put that as dormant. so you have to pay up and activate it again before you can sign up with the paypal account. tsk tsk. it sucks!
mskzalameda
@mskzalameda (4023)
• Philippines
18 Mar 07
i also had the same problem. paypal is widely used all over the world rather than e-gold and yet, paypal doesnt have our country philippines on theri list. sad to say, we can only rely on e-gold. but why not try it? let's give e-gold a chance. maybe it can improve itself!
ainee82
@ainee82 (618)
• Philippines
22 Mar 07
i guess we just have to give it a chance since we don't have other choice. sigh.. i'm actually not as motivated as i was before. i don't want to reach the 10 dollar mark then find out i won't get it. that will really piss me off.
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calicot
@calicot (256)
• Philippines
21 Dec 07
That's right ainee, my friend FG told me that we can now receive money through paypal philippines. Apparently it started last September this year. He's been using Unionbank EON account linked to paypal. AFAIK,although, chikka and xoom also accepts paypal receivables from your account their charges are quite high as compared to Unionbank. If you like to find out more about the advantages and disadvantages you could follow this link: www.pinoymoneytalk.com,there are also many discussions there if you like to know about other investments applicable to us Filipinos. Actually, that's where I got this (mylot) site also. Btw, hsbc credit cards are acceptable to link with paypal. Update us if you already succeeded in getting your money. Post a discussion here. Merry Christmas to you.