Attention Sellers! A New Paypal-RBI Issue!!

Written by Anurag Bhateja on April 9, 2010 – 11:30 am -

I received a mail today from paypal in which the following quoted text was included:

In compliance with Indian regulations, if you are selling products and services to customers globally, please review the following important information:

•       Any proceeds or earnings received into your PayPal account from the export of    goods and services should be withdrawn to your bank account within 30 days.

•       While making the withdrawal please make sure you select the purpose code that best fits your business.

•       Any proceeds or earnings received into your PayPal account from the export of goods and services may only be withdrawn to your bank account in India.  This received amount cannot be reused for making purchases.

•    If you would like to make purchases on any website that accepts PayPal, you can continue to use any credit card issued by a bank in India.

For any questions, please reach out to our customer support teams by following the steps below:

1.     Log into your PayPal account

2.     Click “Contact Us” at the bottom of the page

3.     Click on “Send Us” an email or “Call Us” to reach us by phone

We cannot thank you enough for your continued attention and patience.


Thank you,

PayPal

Now after reading the above mail, what I can understand is, I can not use my paypal funds anywhere! I can not update my domain panel, I can not buy pro flickr account or pay for my Yahoo!Mail pro account! What I do not understand is, why Govt. of India wake up after such a long time. Why they can not check all these things when they were started. Due to this, I have to wait for atleast 3-5 days and above that I have to pay for the transaction charges, currency conversion charges and if by any means, payment is returned then bounce back charges. Over all paypal, which was used to be the best method of payments is now becoming a problem as RBI has some rules and paypal is not able to fulfil the requirements! In all this fuss who is suffering the most is companies like mine where payments are received and sent via paypal every week!

Moreover they want me to use credit card even though I have funds in paypal which I really do not want to use :(. Anyway, I am looking forward to see what shocks I will get in coming days fro paypal and RBI.

UPDATE:

Got a reply from paypal on this.

Hello xxxxxxx,

Thanks for forwarding that suspicious-looking email. You’re right – it
was a phishing attempt, and we’re working on stopping the fraud. By
reporting the problem, you’ve made a difference!

Identity thieves try to trick you into revealing your password or other
personal information through phishing emails and fake websites. To learn
more about online safety, click “Security Center” on any PayPal webpage.

Every email counts. When you forward suspicious-looking emails to
spoof@paypal.com , you help keep yourself and others safe from identity
theft.

Your account security is very important to us, so we appreciate your
extra effort.

Thanks,

PayPal

So you can cheer up :)




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Chandigarh Festival Season

Written by Anurag Bhateja on October 26, 2009 – 11:06 am -

Every year, from Diwali i.e. in Oct/Nov to March, Chandigarh gets loaded with festivals. This last weekend I attended three different unique fests which bound me to write about them. First of all in Tagore theater, there was a theater fest in which artists from different part of India came and performed. I, unfortunately, was able to attend only one play which was “Havalat” an Indian play performed by artists of Allahabad. The play was based on the story of three friends who do not have the three basic needs of life i.e. Food, Shelter and Cloth. They tried to go to jail (Havalat in Hindi) to get all the three things for free. The story is based on how they tried to convince the police officer that they are criminals. It was full of satire, a bit of comedy and a message. The message to see around and think how lucky we are to have all these three things in our life.

Saturday was a no work day. It was actually a no work day and I relaxed like anything after a long long time. I knew Sunday is going to be very busy as I have to attend a photowalk followed by Gurdas Mann Night. Photowalk was at Kalagram where Art And Craft fest is on for 8 more days. I got some pretty good shots there. In the eve I attended the long awaited GURDAS MANN NIGHT. The night was organized by Dainik Bhaskar. It was a real time fun and dream come true to see a living legend performing live in front of eyes. That man is so much full of energy that the whole crowd of 15k people just blew the place with hooting and every single damn person was dancing there on his tunes. The song “Challa” which I think every Punjabi must be aware of, was a blast for the crowd. The thing is, such experience you can not describe in words. You have to be there to feel it.

Anyway, I am back to work now and will try to get some good tutorials today for my readers. :)

Take care and keep looking for more fest coverage as Chandigarh will now see another theater fest followed by a number of garden festivals. So be in touch and keep reading ;) ENJOY :)




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The Thirty Buggy Day – Day 1

Written by Anurag Bhateja on September 25, 2009 – 12:48 pm -

day1 What can I say, delighted, happy, proud of walking so much ;) hehe. Anyway, let me describe the whole experience. i woke up at 7:00 AM as I was aware of the fact that going early to click bugs will result in ZERO output as there will not be enough light. I reached at Fragrance Garden sector 36 Chandigarh at around 8:15 AM and got my camera out set it according to the light conditions. I remember days when I mess myself a lot to get the proper setting for manual mode but as per now, practice has give me 10% confidence on my light calculations. Rest 90% will come as I go further with more and more self assignments after these 30 days.

When I entered the garden, I saw SO many people there which made me a little conscious but as I moved further looking for my subject, I almost forgot about the presence of “humans” there hehe. The first group of bugs which I came across were super sensitive. I am saying this because if I even move a single step they all fly together and then suddenly hide in the bushes so perfectly that I was not able to see them. After banging my head finding these little champs, I gave up and moved forward.

As I kept on moving on the side trail of the park, I came across one garden lizard, few ants, some common bugs and lot of people looking curiously on my work. As I am not going to be on the same place tomorrow, I didn’t even bother to look at them ;).

When I reached to the end of the park, I was empty handed with very little shots. A bit disappointed at tired like anything, I decided to come back. While on back trail, I found the delight which included dragonflies, butterflies, jewel beetle, wasp ( missed the shot). Happy and delighted, I came back home after completing the first day of my assignment. The day was a lesson for me as I thought these bugs are becoming a bit friendly to me but they flew very quickly.

Hoping for the best for the second day, I am closing the post :)

In photograph:
A: Jewel Beetle (Ref No: TTBD1A)
B: Spider (Ref No: TTBD1B)
C: Garden Lizard (The bug eater) (Ref No: TTBD1C)
D: Butterfly (Ref No: TTBD1D)
E: Dragon Fly (Ref No: TTBD1E)
F: Unknown :( (Ref No: TTBD1F)




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