On 12/17/2016 11:27 PM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016, at 05:51 AM, Zamir SUN wrote:
>> Hi,
>> After reading through the whole thread, I decide to still reply on the
>> initial mail.
>>
>> First thank you all for raising this question out and ideas on
>> alternative methods.
>>
>> I am from APAC (China, to be clear), a really diverse region. AFAIK
>> Paypal do have some issue in APAC (luckily most country have a
>> workaround now). Take China as an example, we need to pay USD $35 to
>> Paypal per transaction plus extra fee charged by the receiving bank for
>> withdraw money from Paypal. Costly isn't it? So the workaround is, most
>> of us in China just leave money in Paypal until we really need. Then
>> withdraw in one transaction. I know Cambodia used to have problems using
>> Paypal as well and I remember Sirko Kemter have better ideas on how they
>> workaround that.
>>
>> In short, Paypal is not smooth in APAC, currently we have workarounds
>> per country.
>>
>> For alternative reimbursement methods, I think Red Hat office is a great
>> idea if Red Hat HQ can really make this happen. Otherwise there is
>> problem still, that is not all community have close connection with
>> local Red Hat office, for example, in Malaysia.
>>
>> WestUnion should work, at least I know there are agent in China. But I
>> don't know if it works in other area of APAC or not.
>
> I recently used
Transferwise.com to send a reimbusement in CNY to Tommy.
> Everything worked, except that we had to use his wife's Union Pay
> account because not all Chinese banks are connected to Transferwise.
>
> Tommy could you share the list of working Chinese banks?
Thanks Brian,
I checked and yes, only 6 Chinese banks connected to Transferwise[1].
But luckily two of them are easy to find in most cities in China.
Oops, I made a mistake. Only 6 banks are *not* acceptable. So this means
it will not be a problem if the sender can send by Transferwise to China.
Unluckily this only works if reimburse to China is directly from US,
or
limited countries in EMEA while the cc holder of APAC is in Malaysia. So
generally I think transferwise *may* be an option for some area since
you already did it (smoothly I guess).
[1]
https://transferwise.com/help/article/2278041/australia-and-asia-pacific-...
>
> regards,
>
> bex
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