Paypal India Changes the Rules

India
January 28, 2011 8:45pm CST
For the information of all my Indian mylot friends, Paypal India has changed their rules and believe me this time it is not at all good for you. Following the guidelines of Reserve Bank of India, Paypal made some big changes in the user agreement for Indian users. From March 1st onwards you cannot keep your money in your online Paypal account. You have to transfer it to the Indian bank account within 7 days. The biggest shock is that from March 1st onwards you will not be able to shop using the balance in your Paypal account nor can send it to any other Paypal account. For this you have to transfer money from your credit card or bank account to the Paypal account and then buy goods. This change is a big setback to the India users. The changes which are intended inorder to prevent the flow of black money will be a shock to thousands of Indian freelancers who use Paypal as their main payment processor. What do you think about this? Will this be a set back for Indian users?
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14 responses
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
It will affect short payments like $1-10 because every time we receive this much amount it will go to bank account with in 7 days , banks charges Rs.50 per transaction less than Rs.7000 so where are we going to reach. I will transfer all my money to alertpay and when I would have enough mopney I will get it converted in paypal.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
It is not but I have my own methods like invest money in onbux and receive it in alertpay or I have one online friend who would do it for me.
@maplegeo (126)
• India
29 Jan 11
It is better to use Alertpay now..You can withdraw money through cheque..
• India
29 Jan 11
do you know how to send money to alertpay and transfer back to paypal.that is not functional now ,i guess friend
@amirev777 (4117)
• India
29 Jan 11
hi rojishroy this is what the mail i recvd from paypal says: In order to comply with the RBI Guidelines, our user agreement in India will be amended for the following services as follows: 1. Any balance in and all future payments into your PayPal account may not be used to buy goods or services and must be transferred to your bank account in India within 7 days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the goods or services; and 2. Export-related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed US$500 per transaction. We seek your understanding as we continue to employ our best efforts to comply with the RBI Guidelines in a timely manner. This clearly means: 1. we wont be able to buy anything online by paying thru PayPal 2. Whatever revenue/income/payment we receive in our paypal account has to be immediately transferred to our bank account. But what happens if we dont? will the amount be forfeited?
• India
29 Jan 11
Paypal didn't clearly said what will happen if we do not transfer the money. I think they may froze the balance.
• Philippines
29 Jan 11
That is the worst case scenario in Paypal India. Do you mean that after receiving any money online, I need to forward it straight to Indian bank within 7 days? hmmm and what is the catch? additional charges? It seems that Paypal is just adjusting itself to RBI since your country is really strict when it comes to wired money due to terrorist plot so they have gotten so strict. I don't blame Paypal for this one. They are just following the rule of India. Too bad for freelance workers and definitely a pain in the ar*e.. I wonder what is next?
• India
29 Jan 11
Yes Paypal is adjusting itself with the rules of RBI. But both RBI and Paypal should have a look on the both sides of the problem. I hope Paypal will change this rule and ask us to submit more Identity proofs. In August 2010 we had a similar experience where Paypal frozened the withdrawing of balance to the bank accounts. But after receiving strong protests from Indian community they changed it, but we had to submit our tax information for continuing using Paypal. I expect a similar move in this case also.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
They should make a limit of $150 or $160 and after that all charges and restrictions should be applied. I think it is the amount where we get no transfer charges and no restriction on purchasing anything after all it is our hard earned money and we have every right to spend our way.
@prsaxe (47)
• India
29 Jan 11
Hello Roji, I do not understand why RBI always bothers about the persons who are earning small amount through their hard work. RBI could have made some limit like $500 i.e. all these rules would be applied when your income would be greater than $500. Those who are earning less amount, would not be flowing their black money in real sense. The main culprits are the big and fat politicians and businessmen, who will still be able to manage their black money, and RBI would be helpless to put a hold on them. These strategies of RBI are always hampering the working of small scale freelancers who are making some money by hard work. RBI can still try to keep the track of the income earned by the freelance professionals like us, by verifying the site who is sending the money for outsourcing small tasks. And by the way,just by earning few dollars we are not going to make a heap of black money for us. On the contrary, we will lose some money because we have to withdraw it within 7 days, and suppose the person is getting payments for his services from different sites in first 15 days of the month, then he has to give twice the processing fees for transferring the money to his bank a/c. I do not think RBI is justified for making this rule.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
I think this is the step taken to show the common man that they are alert to stop black money transactions but tell me who is going to make a black money transaction by paypal when PAN is needed compulsory . I do make around $10 a month and which comes in parts if I have to withdraw it in 7 days I would loose 50% of my income in transfer charges. Thank you gov. of India and RBI to close one more door of earning.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
@robingrg64 we can post our concerns at paypal blog https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/01/advanced-notice-for-changes-to-paypal-user-agreement-for-india/
@chayapathys (2111)
• India
30 Jan 11
When I read the responses to this discussion I understand that only small earners in my lot and similar sites who are worried about the new rules for some practical difficulties.The time limit of 7 days is too short a period to transfer the money to Indian bank accounts of those who are earning petty sums in sites by their hard work.The Govt of India is aiming at the sharks who have millions and thousands of dollers in Paypal account.The intention of RBI is laudible.You view the problem of black money which has caused innumerable hardships to common man in India.You and I are a small fish.There are number of corrupt politicians in India who are changing the very culture of India with their black money hoarded in banks abroad.They are the targets of RBI and not you or I.We should all appreciate the steps taken by RBI which is a wing of Govt of India.The people who make small money and keep it in PayPal can make a representation to RBI to look in the practical problems faced by small people like us and try to bring some modifacations in rules by extending the the date rtc and other similar hardships.I hope my friends in mylot will appreciate the spirit behind this response...
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
1 Feb 11
Is this update is notified by PAYPAL on their website.. or is there any other source for this news... Last time I got a similar email maybe from paypal.. when I inquire about that there was no response from them and did not confirmed if that is true.. has any one verified this from paypal?
29 Jan 11
Paypal India is one of the payment processor. Ya that's right paypal changes the rules in India.Some guidelines are there by the guidelines for transfer of payment from Paypal.Now what added is the PAN number which one has to enter to make a payment to another Paypal user.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
If it was up to PAN I had no problem but these much restrictions and charges are going to take 50% of my monthly earning, and can you guess how much I earn a month only $10 .
@djbtol (5493)
• United States
29 Jan 11
Hard to beleive that the government of India has time to worry about the pocket change people make here. Government control frieks!
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
29 Jan 11
I don't think that PayPal is the cause for this. Only RBI..They don't want to keep the money of Indians with the others like PayPal.Very good joke..They are not able to recover the tons of black money that are dumped in the international banks. Now they started to restrict like this. Because , in their view, Indian money should be in India..If they implement this terms or rules without making any change then PayPal can not be used as the Payment processors by the Indian members.Also the PayPal notification is not much clear. I hope that we can know much from the responses of the members who have better knowledge with PayPal and RBI.Thanks for starting this discussion.Now its the time to make alternative arrangements..Else we may to leave the on line sites.
@nainesh1 (1656)
• India
29 Jan 11
I think RBI has made this policy to increase income of banks because we have to withdraw our money within 7 days so they will get more charges everyday for money transfers.
@keval32 (1096)
• India
29 Jan 11
Of course, it is big set back and BIG shock for Indian Paypal users, I received mail from Paypal about this last night, I thought it would be something about the kind of change that they did last time, like last time they said that we can not transfer money directly to Bank account, we have to order cheque for that. But at my surprise, it was something BIG change, and BIG shock for me and other Indian Paypal users.
• Israel
29 Jan 11
Wow... i"m not a citizen of India, but if i was then i would surely start using other payment processors like alert pay or money bookers or any others (there are many good payment processors these days). I hope it won't happen in my country.
@sanjay91422 (2725)
• India
29 Jan 11
Definitely it is a big shock for everyone from India who uses the Paypal for the works like here. I think it will discourage many people to work on such sites now. People have to change their payment processor and I think I am also going to do that. I was happy with the PayPal till now but now I am not. I have one question in my mind, what will happen if I keep the money for more than one week in my PayPal account? If you don't know the exact answer tell me What do you think they will do in that case?
• India
29 Jan 11
yesterday i tried to shop for which is in GBP i failed in that transaction i am ready verified using my debit card all my online will be lost for paypal charges any soluton for this?
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
29 Jan 11
yes but how can we withdraw the balance within 7 days,sometimes assume if we are getting money from different sites on different days,how can i make a unified transaction clearance from paypal.is it comfortable to you?
29 Jan 11
I dont think it's gonna effect me right now, because my paypal account balance is "Nil" .