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Crusader
Oct 8th 2005, 5:00 am
I live in South Africa, and at this stage Paypal only allows South Africans to send money by using their credit cards.

Being a webmaster I really need the facility to receive payments from the various ad networks I use and then to use those payments to pay for hostiing etc. etc.I don't need to be able to withdraw the funds from the paypal account, but alas they won't allow me to receive payments.

Does anyone know a way I can get a paypal account to do this, or am I stuck waiting for them to someday consider giving South African's a full account?
Dejavu
Oct 8th 2005, 5:04 am
I am in exactly the same position (also from South Africa), and it sucks. No way around it it seems, we are stuck with other services like 2checkout.
I would really be interested if anyone has an idea to better this situation.
Old Welsh Guy
Oct 8th 2005, 5:24 am
you could always set up a UK limited company arrange a bank account and route the money through there. This will cost you pennies, can all be done electronically online, including account use, and will pay for itself in no time.
Crusader
Oct 8th 2005, 5:29 am
How would one go about doing this? And wouldn't it mean that you have to pay UK taxes and file income statements etc?
obenix
Oct 8th 2005, 6:05 am
Crusader,
Do you have friends over in countries that allow them to withdraw the paypal money? If you do, you can paypal to them then they can write you a check.
Crusader
Oct 8th 2005, 6:58 am
I don't need to withdraw the funds. I just need an account where I can accumulate the finds and pay other people with them.
obenix
Oct 8th 2005, 7:20 am
Sorry... My speed reading has deterioted..:o :p
Have you considered partnering with a friend that has no paypal restriction?
Crusader
Oct 8th 2005, 8:35 am
Have you considered partnering with a friend that has no paypal restriction?
I think that might be the only solution at the moment. Will have to see if I can convince one of my overseas friends.
DarrenC
Oct 8th 2005, 8:56 am
Crusader, I've had clients who have been unable to pay me via PayPal because there from South Africa. Any ideas why PayPal won't allow South African's to join up?

Maybe you need to start a petition and send it to PayPal?
Crusader
Oct 8th 2005, 10:23 am
I have no idea. Until recently South Africans could not even create a Paypal account. A few months back that changed to allow South African's to create an account to make it possible for them to pay through PayPal using a credit card.

I'm guessing it might be fraud concerns or the like, but I can't understand it really...
mcfox
Oct 8th 2005, 11:17 am
you could always set up a UK limited company arrange a bank account and route the money through there. This will cost you pennies, can all be done electronically online, including account use, and will pay for itself in no time.
Just highlighting this in case you missed it. It's a perfect solution to your situation.
http://www.companyregistrations.co.uk/