PayPal, Skype and eBay working together!!

[louisp]

I recently opened an account with PayPal, as I was planning to buy of eBay.

It seems that due to Fica, they eventually put me on a limited account with a few outstanding requirements. ("Proof of Residence" etc). I met all these requirements and waited two days but my account was still limited

After numerous e-mails , always answered by some smart auto answering e-mail, I was ready to ditch PayPal and just use my Credit Card. BUT after some beer and mampoer (genuine) it occurred to me, that I can just call them....


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Date Number Destination Type Rate/min. Duration Price
Aug 24 00:19 +14029352080 USA Call $0.021 11:30 $0.252
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So I thought, I wonder how iBurst would handle this call.... It was a real smooth call to the US and very very cheap!!! 11 minutes for R1.80. I got so nervous while I was told to hold, as my brain was still brainwashed by Telkom's rippoff rates, kept on thinking I will have to sell my car to fund this call, but alas, that was not the case.

So, I got my account sorted, payed for my eBay items and now I am a happy chappy!!

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Wow, so these skype calls really are that good huh?

What's really funny though, is that in my case, even if i use skyp to call the US, and avoid the rape that is Telkom, i STILL get raped because of the bandwidth the call will use.

Would you care to explain this whole process (using skype to call) please?

 

[Jongi]

The limited account is unlikely to have anything to do with FICA. But yeah Skype is pretty good and the rates are out of this world.

 

[xenithon]

Nothing to do with FICA IIRC. It's a PayPal precaution for international accounts such as in SA, who can ONLY register with a credit card and not a bank account. They charge a small amount and on your monthly statement there is some code they give. You enter that online at PayPal to de-activate the restrictions.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

The bandwidth for a call even to US, not that it changes anything, is very little. Completley negligable infact, compared to what you pay Telkom.

It much use something like 50-80kb/s and then about the same for upload. And you call for about 20 mins, its only a few mega, the price is probably in cents.