When PayPal will come to Romania ?

Im tired to find countles schemas to get the cash from outside in to my country ?

Anyone know any news related to , at least, a rumour about PayPal coming in to next 10 contries that will join EU ?

 

Why exactly does PayPal stay our of certain countries?

 

It's a mystery to me to, it only takes one bank account in a country to spread the cash. Probably its about taxes on money transfer to this countries.

 

Probably not in a few years. Poland is for 2 years in EU and still we can't receive money via PayPal.

 

thats very bad news,

probably i will continue to rely on moneybookers.

anybody knows a good wy to move money between eu/usa and former communist countries ?

 

I'm from Romania too... I hope we will have paypal in few years... maybe after we get in the EU... Hungary had same situation... but now the have PayPal... I think integrating in EU is very important for them...

Though you can use 2CheckOut... that is available for Romania

 

i never heard about 2checkout, i will take a look, but personal experience is more valuable than pr advertising so can you tell me more about them , from your experience ? thanks!

 

I think it's for 2 reasons:

1. Fraud, I get the impression that Romania has a lot more internet fraud than other countries.
2. Money, I don't think Eastern European are particularly big money clients as compared to US/Western Europe.

I don't think it has anything to joining the EU, seeing as that's just a political stance and doesn't reflect Paypals business regulations.

It is annoying when I need to send money to someone from Eastern Europe. I think internet fraud is so bad in Romania though as I can't even send a Western Union money transfer to Romania from the internet.

 

that's really a problem, romania is considered a risky country. joining eu should help the image.

meantime i should continue to count on postal checks

 

you're totally right - I have to agree

 

Romania has PayPal a long, long time ago. Too much fraud -> no paypal..

They don't really care for such a small market, people are just now starting to learn that they can buy things with credit cards (and it is possible).

With all the stories about Paypal and its support I wouldn't use Paypal anyway. Just beeing from a "higher risk" country they would be able to refuse any payment or to refund anything even if I was 100% honest about the transaction and goods.

As for alternative payment systems, I have heared ikobo is very good. Moneybookers, maybe Moneygram..

 

I use PAyPal alternatives:
E-Gold , MoneyBookers.com and SafePAySolutions.com

I don't need PayPal!!I hate PAyPAl

 

can i ask why you use safepaysolutions ?

this are their fees :

Withdraw Funds Direct Bank Deposit* - $7
Bank Wire - $27 (within the United States)
Bank Wire - $39 (International)
SPS Debit Card - $2
Check - Free (postage or shipping charges apply)



Add Funds From Credit Card - 5.9%*
From Bank Wire - $2
From Direct Deposit - $2
Electronic Check - $2
E-Bullion - 1%
its a little ripoff dont yu think ?

tax for adding funds ?!? its ridiculous

 

One of the reasons for no PayPal in Romania, is a guy who was signing up PayPal users in Romania and collecting a commission. When he was stopped by eBay/PayPal for possible illicit activity he made death threats.


Romanian native gets 5 months in prison for threats against eBay

http://www.daily-news.ro/article_detail.php?idarticle=25593

 

"Romanian native gets 5 months in prison for threats against eBay"

Wow! interesting.

 

hmm, i would say thats exagerate, forbiding a country because higher % of fraud. i dont want to derail the discussion but :
a) fraud is not country based, offenders are distributed more equally on the globe. maybe some countries have a higher percentage but i dont see the point in banning a country.
b) i know "country based" offenders who did much more damage and didn't get banned from entering usa or anything else.

so im not convinced by the "to much fraud" arguments, probably is another reason.

 

fraud is not the answer for keepin' romania out of paypal's community. then how come moneybookers allow romania to use their system? aren't they afraid of fraud? and isn't paypal a secure system? there must be something else... the reason i think it is the number of people using internet for online transactions... paypal will lose more than they'll win...

 

Just like in Estonia. I thought that after they bought Skype they would change, but no, we have still 'send only' account. I hate that

 

that's pretty good... i'd be happy with a send only account... you can buy things you can not find in your country and sell them for a good price... is better than nothing... anyway... maybe we will be able to have send only accounts when we'll join eu, even i am not so happy romania will join eu, but that's another problem...

 

I'm from Romania too and I'd kill for a PayPal account, especially that I don't know anyone in an accepted PayPal country to make me an account(at least not anyone who I could trust large sums of money).
However, for you romanian guys here, have you heard anything about dotcommerce's offer?(dotcommerce.ro) I've read something like dotcommerce will allow their clients to have acces to PayPal. I've wrote them a few days ago asking what exactly that means but got no answer so far.