January 29, 2011 
Ryan 
Due to RBI restrictions, PayPal is already lost many Indian clients due to many previous restrictions and once again the new announcement forces its indian clients to search for other service providers and PayPal alternatives. For the past couple of days PayPal sending an email to its Indian clients with heart breaking revised user agreement.
According PayPal announcement (With effect from 1 March 2011) In order to comply with the RBI Guidelines, the revised user agreement states that…
- Indian clients may not use their PayPal balance to buy any goods or services.
- All payments which is received through PayPal account must be transferred to bank account within 7 days.
- Export related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed US$500 per transaction.
From March 1, 2011 onwards Indian customers unable to use their PayPal balance to transfer funds or buy any products, Instead the money should first be transferred to PayPal using through their bank’s credit card. 
Do you think is it a right time to search PayPal alternatives? Yes. It does.
Its a very sad news for all indian freelancer. Now i will have to a get credit card to pay for hosting charges. I am a student. Will i get a credit card issued. .
Although I am not indian myself, I can bet that this new agreement will impact a lot of people who do business online in India.