Ikobo And Payzip

[ChiangMaiThai]

I am looking for a way for customers who have a visa card to be able to send me money without them having to sign up for an account (like paypal). Just enter the visa card info and be done.

Western Union is one way, but very expensive and not real convenient. I believe that ikobo and possibly payzip offer this. Does anyone have any experience with either of them? I know ikobo had a lot of problems awhile back. Have they been sorted out?

Does anyone know where ikobo is actually located and what laws govern them? They seem to be a very mysterious operation.

Thanks!

[spacebass]

I am looking for a way for customers who have a visa card to be able to send me money without them having to sign up for an account (like paypal). Just enter the visa card info and be done.

Western Union is one way, but very expensive and not real convenient. I believe that ikobo and possibly payzip offer this. Does anyone have any experience with either of them? I know ikobo had a lot of problems awhile back. Have they been sorted out?

Does anyone know where ikobo is actually located and what laws govern them? They seem to be a very mysterious operation.

Thanks!

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I have experience with Ikobo who charge a small amount of money to your account and you then within (from the day they send it) say five days, have to respond saying how much they sent that confirms your account. Everytime they sent it to my UK Egg account it it took longer than five days to arrive in my account so they would not confirm the account and they kept the money.

I complained and got one lot back, only a small amount but imagine if they are doing this with 1000s of people.

I also have vague recollections of reading bad things about them in some forum, though in fairness a representative of Ikobo was in the forum saying he would sort it out.

But its all internet blah de blah can't actually get the feeling anyone is available to look after things, and money is money.

I believe it is based in India.

Never was able to use them and not sure I would now.

[ChiangMaiThai]

Yeah, I've heard similar things. Does anyone know of a way that I can receive payment via Visa without forcing the sender to sign up for an account somewhere and without applying for a merchant account? PayZip requires both sender and receiver have an account...

[Pattayatony]

Yeah, I've heard similar things. Does anyone know of a way that I can receive payment via Visa without forcing the sender to sign up for an account somewhere and without applying for a merchant account? PayZip requires both sender and receiver have an account...

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There is a company called "thaiepay" they will deposit the money into your Thai bank account but Im not sure if the sender has to sign up. I just found their web site take a look.

[spacebass]

Yeah, I've heard similar things. Does anyone know of a way that I can receive payment via Visa without forcing the sender to sign up for an account somewhere and without applying for a merchant account? PayZip requires both sender and receiver have an account...

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There is a company called "thaiepay" they will deposit the money into your Thai bank account but Im not sure if the sender has to sign up. I just found their web site take a look.

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Yes I have used Thailandpay to pay for goods in Thailand charged to my visa card, on the internet, without having to join anything.

Worked OK.

Look at www.thailandpay.com

[OlRedEyes]

Ikobo works nicely when it works... account verification problems as someone mentioned. Thailandpay works great, except they've been down for two weeks, and no indication when they will be back up again, won't say, don't want to lose face?? Maybe this week, maybe next month, maybe never?

The site works, but the link to BOA doesn't, so cannot process.

[ChiangMaiThai]

Ikobo works nicely when it works... account verification problems as someone mentioned. Thailandpay works great, except they've been down for two weeks, and no indication when they will be back up again, won't say, don't want to lose face?? Maybe this week, maybe next month, maybe never?

The site works, but the link to BOA doesn't, so cannot process.

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Does ikobo require the sender to verify themselves and go through a whole sign up process or can someone completely unfamiliar with ikobo, go to the site, enter their credit card info and send an instant payment to me?

[OlRedEyes]

Ikobo works nicely when it works... account verification problems as someone mentioned. Thailandpay works great, except they've been down for two weeks, and no indication when they will be back up again, won't say, don't want to lose face?? Maybe this week, maybe next month, maybe never?

The site works, but the link to BOA doesn't, so cannot process.

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Does ikobo require the sender to verify themselves and go through a whole sign up process or can someone completely unfamiliar with ikobo, go to the site, enter their credit card info and send an instant payment to me?

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No, they have to be verified. The thing is, once the sender has sent the money, via his credit card, you can draw it in cash from a local ATM. So if the transaction gets reversed through a chargeback etc, Ikobo has to bear the cost. So they understandably insist on verifying the senders account. Once the account is verified, all subsequent transmission from that sender goes through immediately.

Thats the theory. In practise, they may come up with requests for additional documentation from you when you recieve money.

Thailand Pay has a Quick Pay option that will work well, as long as the sender doesn't mind a Thai site with bad english. That is, when they get their link to BOA fixed. Nice, helpful guy though, in a typical, non-committal Thai way.

[Soboringtochooseaname]

People don't have to sign up when paying through Paypal, they can just fill their credit cards info.

[Phil Conners]

They must have changed that recently. Last I checked they forced you to sign up for Paypal before you could pay with a credit card.

[Soboringtochooseaname]

Actually customers have never been forced to sign up but it was written with very small letters that you could skip the sign up process and directly pay by credit card.

They just show it better since few months.