Shocking PayPal Announcement For Account Holders From India

Due to RBI restrictions and revised policies, PayPal is already lost many Indian clients due to many restrictions and once again the new announcement forces its indian customers 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.

Heart Breaking PayPal Announcement For Indian Account Holders

According to 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. (Update : Now its transferring automatically to account holders bank account which linked through PayPal account settings panel)
  • Export related payments receipts 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.

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