{"id":1717,"date":"2010-02-04T05:45:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T05:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:18:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:48:35","slug":"paypal-disallows-indians-from-receiving-payments-for-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2010\/personal\/paypal-disallows-indians-from-receiving-payments-for-services.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Paypal disallows Indians from receiving payments for services!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I use Paypal to receive payments for my freelancing work from my clients all over the world. Today however, I got a shock on receiving the following mail from Paypal:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hello Bhagwad Park,<\/p>\n<p>Your payment of $ XX.XX has been sent back to the sender of the payment.<\/p>\n<p>We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal  payments to be sent to or from India.<\/p>\n<p>If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a  personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her  resend the payment as follows: \u00a0(a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select  &#8220;Goods,&#8221; and (c) provide a shipping address.<\/p>\n<p>If this payment was a personal payment such as a gift, then we have  requested that the sender find another payment method until we restore  personal payments to and from India.<\/p>\n<p>We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we&#8217;re  sorry for any inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Paypal<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To be sure, they&#8217;ve given a workaround &#8211; they want my buyers to pretend they&#8217;re buying &#8220;goods&#8221; instead of services. There are several problems with this. For one, some of my largest clients are corporates whose payment system is automatic. They don&#8217;t &#8220;click&#8221; anything or &#8220;select&#8221; anything. The payments just goes from their systems. For me to ask them to change the way they do business is impossible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secondly, Paypal is asking me to encourage my buyers to lie! I don&#8217;t provide any goods and it&#8217;s quite possible that my buyers will refuse to falsify their accounts just because the almighty Paypal says they must.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mind you, this is only for <em>Indian<\/em> Paypal accounts. Why has this happened? Paypal refuses to divulge more details on this issue and who knows how long this will last? There are very few reliable options to transfer money from abroad into India and Paypal is like a gateway. It&#8217;s tragic that there&#8217;s no real alternative to Paypal &#8211; most of my buyers know Paypal and will use it and if I tell them I can&#8217;t receive payments in Paypal, I don&#8217;t know how they&#8217;ll pay me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fortunately a lot depends on this and some corporations (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-3788873-10745187\">oDesk<\/a> &#8211; the organization where I get part of my work from) and unless they find a way to resolve this, all their Indian providers will be unable to withdraw and hence work. And since they get large portions of their revenue from places like India, they simply <em>have<\/em> to find a viable workaround. Also, all web hosting payments to and from India will be canceled creating mass chaos &#8211; so I&#8217;m really a smaller fish :D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Crossing my fingers and hoping this goes away soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paypal has barred payments for any and all services provided by an Indian. 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