PayPal in Pakistan (Part II)
Earlier this year, I sent a letter to the CEO of Ebay (Ebay is the parent company of PayPal), and to the CEO of PayPal itself.
The contents of the letter can be viewed here. The delivery snapshots as provided by Fedex can be seen below.
Proof of Delivery receipt for Letter to CEO of Ebay: John Donahoe
Proof of Delivery receipt for Letter to CEO of PayPal: Scott Thompson
I have not received any reply so far (which was quite disappointing).
So, yet again, I am writing another letter to them. Contents of which can be seen below.
________________________
February 12, 2009
John Donahoe
President and CEO
eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
USA
Subject: PayPal for Pakistan
Dear Mr. Donahoe,
I am writing to you to inquire as to why Ebay and Paypal services are not available in Pakistan. It is very disheartening to note that whilst countries like Angola, Yemen, Uganda, Madagascar, Jordan, Kuwait and Rwanda (to name a few) can enjoy the benefits of PayPal, Why is Pakistan left out?
Pakistan is home to 17+ Million users of the Internet. Mobile users are hovering around the 80+ Million mark. The population is 160 Million. Our banking system is robust and seasoned, whilst our digital infrastructure is top-notch, having many firsts (for example: we have the world largest Wimax deployment).
For years I have personally been writing to Ebay/PayPal, but have never received a reply, which in this day and age, is quite disappointing.
The main objective of this letter to know (not superficially, but in detail) what is preventing the inclusion of Pakistan in the countries where PayPal / Ebay services can be offered.
A lot many professional organizations in Pakistan are willing to lend support to the cause, should Ebay/PayPal require so.
If there are any policy or government issues preventing your organization from doing business here, kindly do highlight the same so that at the very least we can start addressing the issue.
I just want to be able to have an eBay and a PayPal account from Pakistan. In the event you want to reach me, the easiest way is via email, my personal email address is babushka99@gmail.com and official email address is faisal@nacspl.com
Regards,
FAISAL KHAN
CEO
Net Access Communication Systems (Private) Limited
CC: Mr. Scott Thompson, President, PayPal.
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I appreciate your effort to do something about this unjustified treatment of Pakistan by PayPal. I too once contacted PayPal through email but only got a generic reply.
Unfortunately, you cannot convince PayPal to make any business decision.
It would be better if people like you form a group and association and pressurize our own government to do something in this regard.
Our government can provide them guarantees or necessary incentives to let them do business in Pakistan. That will give a boost to IT industry in Pakistan.
The point is that we should raise a voice from every palyform if any such injustice is seen. We should not turn dumb, we can speak freely.
If such companies are turning a deaf ear it means they are dicriminating against a muslim country as explained by Faisal Bhai such sort of discrimination be stopped forthwith and paypal be provided in Pakistan.
Trust me Paypal guys you are loosing a huge market and under estimating Pakistan.
great effort…i hope you recieve soem reply though i seriously doubt it
Assalam-o-alaikum
1s of all i would like to appritiate the efforts of Faisal bhai,,,Bhai u are doing well but what can we do?why this injustice behaviour with Pakistan?
Please brothers do some thing,lead this compaign we are with you.
i Really need an online payment service,i am loosing my 2 to 3 hundred dollars per month due to the absence of paypal plz guide me how to use the alternative of paypal.
thanx
regards Engineer shams.
Its not just Pakistan. They have banned almost all of the muslim countries. Only two I think are supported.
i hope it will b in pakistan very soon.
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ASALAM-O-ALAIKUM
Yeah you people are right these paypal are not doing a justice Pakistan is a Good country what these people think i don’t know but i am with Faisal Khan and i support him that its really embarrassing we Pakistani`s have got such a talent but we cant avail it and Bangladesh India are they from heave that they are able to do this i really want people to do something or else these foreigner are trying there every bit to kick Pakistan out.
i can sniff freaking israeli mind behind this.
I appreciate your effort.
But sorry to tell you that Paypal will never be available here.
I did some research about all this some time back.
Paypal is registered in Israel.
It is an israeli company.
Pakistani government has strict policies about this, we don’t want to have any trade relations with israel.
Therefore Paypal will never be allowed here.
But there are alternatives.e.g. moneybookers
yeah well i guess alertypay should be considered a good alternative to stupid paypal.. I really don’t know why only Paypal doesn’t support Pakistan. Every other online payment companies seems to support Pakistan. So it can’t be because they say there is some Spam from Pakistan.
I guess we all Pakistanis should use alertpay more and more to break the pride of Paypal of not accepting Pakistan as their accepted country.
To make an account at Alertpay go to following
https://www.alertpay.com/?s%2fIhc6FFXVT0hDeC%2fLJNIA%3d%3d
To withdraw money from alertpay you have two options check/bank wire.
For check they charge 4 dollars and for bankwire they charge 15$.
So goto https://www.alertpay.com/?s%2fIhc6FFXVT0hDeC%2fLJNIA%3d%3d and start your freelancing career.
regards
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@ Kashif:
Alertpay is not yet supported by most of the sites for online payments while paypal offers secured payment processing and is trusted by alot of sites all over the world which makes payment really easy…
visit http://www.digitalaccounts.net for online payment solutions
god dam it why paypal is not available im lossing my customers n thousands of dollars i really need a paypal acount in pakistan i run a ethnic jewelry in peshawar. come guys we should raise a voice againt paypal management,,,,
best wishes
afghani
Hi! My name is Fritz EYOK,
We can set up a PayPal account from Pakistan for you. An official account With your own personal data. 100% legal, 100% safe, 100% secure and 100% rentable.
You will make business with ease, you will win the trust of your customers so that the money will naturally flow.
contact us to eyokfla@yahoo.fr to get more informations about our service. Or check the group “My PayPal account in Pakistan” in facebook.
Sincerely yours
Good effort Bro, you should send these testimonials to major TV networks like CNN, BBCs click, Aljazeera, Geo, ARY one, DW & lodge you protest.
Dear Faisal,
Thanks for your effort my brother. It is great to see some action from a friend like you who also has contacts in Corporate world.
Well I know Paypal guys have created a big problem for Pakistani aspiring internet entrepreneurs. I wasted my 2
years thinking about this problem..wasted my money to get through Singapore bank and a 3rd party service when I visited
Singapore, they just limit your account when you have some grands in there!
I also wasted my time and a great friend, Kevin Riley’s time to get through his address, new bank account in
Osaka and ID…they limited the account the day we have
$500 there…they took about 3 months to release those
funds.
Then I said enough is ENOUGH… and I said no way
I am not going to try to get Paypal again ever until
they offer service in Pakistan…then i look at
alternatives and 2Co has been great alternative since
then.
I had even forgotten that Paypal problem years ago…but just today… when I got another message from a friend
… We have got another
facing the same pain… I just wrote this message for
him…hope users of this thread will also like this:
it is called: PAYPAL SUCKS
better means to accept payments…
http://www.mohsinrasool.com/paypal-in-pakistan-response-to-a-friend/
Best Regards,
Mohsin Rasool
Goto http://www.paypalblacklistsolution.com/
Forget Paypal dude.. try this
The best alternate to Paypal and easiest way is through MoneyBookers. You can send or receive money online very easily. No complex procedures required. Just add your bank details and that’s it. All other processing will be handled by MoneyBookers.
Registeration is very very easy.
Below is the link (do me a favor because I am referring it), so click below
https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=14729509
Well Mr. Faisal,
Good Effort but before approching foreigners it is better to ask our own banks national or international that why don’t they let customers to open an online merchant accounts, so they can receive payments through credit card or even pay pal. I think you should use your effort in our own county first. Well just a thought, but good effort any way.
Well I have been using moneybookers for about 6 months now.. They support Pakistan and are you very cheap.
You can withdraw money to your local Pakistani Bank by only paying $2.71 fee, which is very less when compared.
So until paypal landes in Pakistan. Moneybookers is your best alternative.
To joing Moneybookers go to
https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=13125958
To verify you postal address and bank account, it’s so easy.
When you want to verify your postal address. They send you a card by post which have some secret code. When you receive it, you then have to enter that code in your account.
To starters, having your postal address verified is enough. After sometime when your transactions gets more than $1000 in 90 days. THen you have to verify your bank account aswell because of many money laundering laws.
To verify your bank account, I’ll show you a very easy way. Ask your Moneybookers support that you want to verify your bank account manually. They’ll ask you to send them your latest bank statement of the money that you withdrew from your Moneybookers account.
Just go to your local bank and ask them about it.
Thats it, scan that copy and send it over to moneybookers..
So join to moneybookers now
https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=13125958
WE ARE WITH YOU FAISAL.
i THINK YOU SHOULD SEND LETTER THROUGH COURIER TO EBAY.
AND OUR GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALSO UNDERSTAND OUR PROBLEMS REGARDING THIS.