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?
regards,
bex