In some countries Paypal has just arrived. This includes Mauritius. If I’m not mistaken we were added in May 2007. But Moneybookers was always available to Mauritians - I estimate since some 4 to 5 years back before Paypal comes!2) With Paypal there’s only one option available
From Mauritius (and some others too), the ONLY thing that IS possible, is you can JUST upload money to Paypal via Credit Card and send payments! That’s all!
The following options are currently not available:
- request payment
- upload funds via locak bank - bank wires (available only to local American Banks)
- accept payment either from business, deals or donations Moneybookers on the other hand allows a wide range of options.
Loading …Moneybookers is a good payment processing system which is becoming increasing popular day by day among so many companies and money making sites. By now, I have seen many Mauritian opting for Moneybookers due to the restrictions detailed in “reason 2” above. I would recommend Moneybookers to anyone who wants to have a payment processor on the net (at least you should definetly keep it handy)
Its support system is good too, I’ll rate them a (9/10). I had many initial questions and queries, they responded to me in a delay of 2days (that’s why I gave only 9). Else, they are very polite, to the point and explains your confusions in a very well detailed manner!
- Some facts -
=> I have successfully uploaded money from my local bank to Moneybookers via bank wire - It took me a bit less than 48hrs (2 days).
=> You can also withdraw money from your moneybookers account to your local bank! This also takes 2 days!
=> Moneybookers offers 3 types of verification (unlike paypal). As and when you make those verifications, your transaction limit is increased!
- The verifications types are: -
1) By requesting a postal letter to be sent to your home address - (Worked fine! Letters reached me in a 5 days’ time)
2) By uploading any amount of money via credit cards - (Worked fine!)
3) By uploading any amount of money from your local bank - bank wire! (Worked fine!)
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- Donation Buttons -
=> Donation button are not available as a customized form, but they give details about you can customize your own donation button (or gateways in case of a business) yourself. This was pretty easy to do, as you can see on .
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Absolutely right Wakish. Handy options are what make people decide. Moneybookers is perfect.
well i personally prefer e-gold its fast easy and secure but i havn’t try moneybookers
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You’re right!! I’m from Mauritius and when I read that I could not receive payments through my Paypal account I wanted to strangle the bastards who decided this!!!!
“Currently PayPal accounts in Mauritius are only able to send payments. This recipient is not eligible to receive funds.”
Why?!!
Hi Ama, thanks for your visit.. Infact I rarely find any mauritian commented on my blog..lol
Yeah, about your “why”.. well I have emailed paypal 3 times: one in oct 2006, second time in mid 2007 and third time just recently in feb 2008.
In all the 3 emails, the response from paypal was just ” we are tying our best..etc”
Apparently they are having difficulties with a possible affiliate or linking (whatever they call it) with the main banks of mauritius.
But all these reasons and reply seem pretty much lame excuses if you ask me! When Moneybookers can provide a fully functional service to us, then how come Paypal can’t?
Well.. lets hope that before the end of 2008, we see a fully functional paypal service available to us since the world is currently revolving around Paypal services most.. though I bet that in the incoming years this will not be the case..
- Wakish -
Can somebody tell where can I buy anything useful with Moneybookers? On their website there are a couple of links - a webpage with dog food, some polish Casio shop I don’t understand, etc. I would need one NORMAL webpage to spend a little money I got on Moneybookers - a book would be nice, but I don’t know where to look.
If anybody knows a page with a variety of products, please post it or send to abcdlmnog@hotmail.com.
Thanks.
Hey nice blog! I drop here while searching about receiving payment from paypal. Damn a cant receive payment holding of $25 from hits4pay due to paypal! There is another alternative: Alertpay.com
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i’m using moneybookers for a year now and i can say it woth 100 percent certain
use moneybookers it’s safe fast flexible
i make instant transactions and recive too
instant uploading funds from my visacard
withdrow to visa card takes not more than 2 days
no moneyback so no one will scam u
u have detailed history of transactions
low fees
their support respond
hello im from mauritius!! paypal really suks becoz i cant receive payments..i want to be an ebay seller, i dont know if it will be possible with moneybookers, i have a shop here already, i wanted to be able to sell things online also, to any country..paypal preventing me to do that, hope i get some light with moneybookers
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I am from a Company in Europe that needs to pay lots of bills in countries in Africa. I am keen to avoid the monstrous prices charged by our bank for these transfers, but am not sure that Moneybookers is the answer. Has anyone a tip for me?
Hi,
I had problems with moneybookers. I uploaded us dollars 200 from my mauritian bank account (MUR currency), paid transfer commision and currency conversion separately, by my money bookers account loaded only with us dollars 175. a whaking 25 dollers as currency conversion commission ??!!! i dont understand. its been 5 days i am waiting for a response to my query, no answer from them yet ? hi wakish, what commission did you pay to money bookers to upload your account ?
Hi Celine,
I don’t quite remember the exact amount, but the last time which I made a bank-to-bank transfer was back in 2007. I think the commission fee was between $10-$15. Yes, the fee for such a bank-to-bank transfer is quite high as compared to uploading funds via a credit card. I have quite doing such an upload nowadays, I do it via credit card.
I would recommend you to upload funds to your moneybookers account via credit card. The upload is instant and the fee is very light. I still do such uploads and it’s been very simple and straight-forward.
If you do not have a credit card, here’s is one possible solution:
1) Find a friend or relative who has a credit card. Ask him/her to create an account with moneybookers. then upload funds via the credit card. Then he/she can transfer money from his/her moneybookers account to your moneybookers account. Then in real life, you give them the equivalent Mauritian Rupee. You surely have a cousin or relative or friend with a credit card.
All the best!
- Wakish -
Yes, PayPal really sucks! I’ve mailed them a number of times and every time I get an incompetent staff member trying to run some nonsense to me about global financial drab.
I’m a dual citizen (Indian & Mauritian) so I finally worked a way to transfer my earnings to a paypal id in India and then open an NRI account with Bank of Baroda and re-route the money to that account in India and then I issue myself a check here in Mauritius to my other Bank of baroda account here and I wait for a month for the check to clear and finally the money comes to my account.
It’s a long process, but it works for the time being.
Problem is that most people prefer to send payments through paypal. Moneybookers and e-gold are used by a few and it’s such a shame because in the end, you’ll be losing business.
Hi,
I am from sri lanka and found your interesting site. Thought of putting this comment here. Is there any other methods people can send money to Sri lanka? I mean this is apart from Western Union, Moneygram, Xoom etc. Just curious. PayPal does not work.
Thanks.
I just hate paypal and start using Moneybooker. Paypal just know how to keep money of other’s. At least if possible for few days. If you found bank withdrawal is showing pending after stipulated time they will send you an automated mail to contact bank or Will tell you to wait 14 days. After 14 days they start new hassles. A large amount of money they keep with themselves for a month which i withdrew on 8th april 2010 and not only mine many’s money didn’t deposited in their account.
Hi Everyone,
I am having big trouble to receive payments from abroad. I just visited this site and I want to know where exactly does Moneybookers is found in Mauritius?
Please reply as soon as possible.
Thanking you in advance.
Hi,
I am a mauritian. can anyone tell me how to use moneybookers to receive payments from abroad?
please reply as soon as possible.
Thanking you in advance
@Nina:
Moneybookers is not found in Mauritius. It is a foreign bank in UK.
To use it, just go on the moneybookers website, click here and register an account. I have mentioned some steps in this article above, kindly follow the steps.
If you have any further issue let me know, or you could directly contact the Moneybookers staff.
All the best!
Hi,
thank you for the info. but I want to know how it works exactly. I already have an account on moneybookers and I just verified my address. The problem is that they are saying that my debit card is invalid. I have enough money on it, so what is the problem??
Please reply asap.
@Nina:
Hey there, nice to see you again
The problem in not on their side, the problem is on the mauritian bank’s side. SBM or MCB, does not allow overseas upload of money from a Debit card. But you can do it with a Credit Card
Initially when I did not have a Credit Card, I use to do bank-to-bank transfer. That is, I initiated my mauritian bank to transfer X amounts to the overseas Moneybookers bank. You will need to ask them a special form for this purpose, you will have to provide precise details of MOneybookers, like IBAN number, SWIFT number, exact address of Moneybookers..etc in that form. I think your moneybookers account already have those info as far as I remember, if not just email the MB team.
All the best and keep us updated about your upload status.
Hi,
Thank you loads for the information. But I do not understand how will I be able to receive money with my debit card. You told me to tell my bank to transfer money from my account to moneybookers so as to send money or pay fees, right? So, without a credit card is it impossible for me to receive money from moneybookers?
I am so confused!
Please clarify my doubts.
Nina,
on your moneybookers account, click on the withdraw section, and you will see the different options available. As far as I remember, you can withdraw your money by the following:
1) Initiate a money withdrawal from moneybookers TO your local bank
2) Withdraw to your credit card - it is possible if your max. balance is not full
3) Withdraw to your debit card, but this one I’m not sure if the Mauritian local bank allows. It’s so frustrating with the Mauritian Debit cards, they give me a dual debit card to serve as debit/credit but still they don’t allow overseas transaction - that is so stupid from them.
Nice article. I am really annoyed with PayPal. http://nayarweb.co.cc/forum/thread-159.html
The reason i don’t want to try another service is that everybody uses paypal.