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Tune Money’s Tune Card is a relatively new prepaid card in the market, and I have applied one for myself to withdraw from Paypal, and so that I can withdraw my cash from the Tune Card.

As the first step, you need to log in to Tune Money website and register yourself for the card. However, the process of application was quite tedious. I had 3 times time-out during the payment process and finally got through again at the 4^th attempt. Yes, it was very frustrating.

After registering myself, I waited religiously 7 working days for the collection of my card at the local post-office. Yes, it was exactly 7 working days, I was quite surprised at the efficiency. However, the disappointment with their service started not long after that.

Locked account

After activating my card, I somehow got my account locked, and had to wait for new password from them before I could log in again. Unfortunately, it took quite some days to solve my tiny problem. And waiting their customer support reply is the most frustrating thing in the world. They claim to reply you within 2 working days. Sadly, it always takes more than 2 days to reply my mail.

Are they really that busy?

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PayPal announced new funds withdrawal functionality to withdraw PayPal money to credit card, debit card, or prepaid cards in 26 countries. The process only takes 3 easy steps.

Image: withdraw paypal funds to credit card

The new feature is great for PayPal members in the countries where previously can send money but had limited ways to receive or withdraw money. Example: Previously, Malaysian PayPal members can only send or receive PayPal funds but no official way to withdraw the funds. Now, they can withdraw their funds to their card.

The new functionality is available in: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Indonesia, India, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Philippines, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, UAE, and Uruguay.

Check PayPal Offerings Worldwide for updates.

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PayPal is the biggest e-currency on the internet. But the problem for Malaysians is, we can’t directly withdraw the money to our bank. Though there are solutions, but not everyone of us would want to withdraw the money, especially those with lesser than 100 bucks sitting on their account.

Tip: Learn how to withdraw PayPal money in Malaysia.

So, I would like to make a post specially dedicated to the readers of LiewCF Tech Blog (not that it has any room to fit in my blog) about how you really don’t need to withdraw your money out.

1. Online Shopping

Yeah. Your spouse might limits your shopping budget. You can always say: “Well, we can’t withdraw these fund, so we might as well spend it”. Go on a shopping spree. My personal favourite is YesAsia and YesStyle (credit card only). And yes, they do ship to Malaysia.

2. Investment

In real life, you buy real estate like land and houses. On the internet, you buy websites and domain names or what we called Internet Real Estate. Domaining is the hottest, booming industry this year. It is the business of buying a domain name and speculating to sell it higher to someone else in future. Almost every domain name registrar accept PayPal. Several better registrars I recommend are: DomainSite, NameCheap and GoDaddy.

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Confirmed! The previous problem “US Bank Account is Required to Receive PayPal Money” has been fixed before June 2007.

The bug was caused by PayPal maintenance and lasted for half a month. As a result, many Malaysians cannot accept their PayPal payment. It was bad, although I was not affected.

Some took the risk to insert a fake U.S. bank account, which worked at first but their PayPal account got limited access later. Well, I warned you.

Anyway, glad that PayPal finally fixed the problem and Malaysians can continue to accept PayPal money. We also noticed the better user interface of PayPal website.

Oh, I withdrew RM2,500 of PayPal money this week.

P.S. MalaysiaPal ebook shows you 3 different methods to withdraw your PayPal money, including getting a real U.S. Bank Account for FREE. Recommended!

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Recently, it has come to Malaysians’ attention that PayPal required US Bank Account before we can accept PayPal money. According to official PayPal reply, the error maybe caused by system maintenance.

Yesterday, I sent some PayPal money to my friend with a verified non-US PayPal account but he cannot accept the money. PayPal required him to “add a bank account”.

Previously, he could accept PayPal money without adding a bank account by choosing the “Accept but don’t add bank account” option. From the screenshot of his PayPal account, it looks like PayPal had removed the option:

Image: Cannot accept PayPal money without adding a US Bank account

I wrote to PayPal regarding the issue but did not get a useful reply. In order to dig the information for my readers , I wrote another email to PayPal and got another reply shortly after.

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