Paid blogging for long distance calls
As some of you might have noticed, I sometimes write paid posts. Since it’s just a post of at least 60 words, I only get small amount from it. After months of writing, the payments sent to my PayPal account was enough to pay off some bills. I’ve tried to withdraw my PayPal funds to my Japanese bank account but the transaction failed many times. For every failed transaction, about US$2 was deducted from my PayPal account. When I asked PayPal about it, they told me to ask the bank here. When I went to the bank, nobody heard about PayPal. So, I guess it’s about time to stop trying to transfer my funds to my bank account.
Now, aside from depending on paid posts for my blog domain and web space, I also use my PayPal funds to cover my long distance calls. I’m glad Skype accepts PayPal when buying Skype credits. And Skype call to the Philippines (both landline and mobile) is cheaper compared to most international call card rates!
I just hope that one of these days, Amazon Japan would accept payments from PayPal.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I didn’t know you can earn that much from paid blogging. Maybe I should do my own paid blogging site. Hehe.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 am
Without getting into any details. I’ll just say that Paypal has been a nightmare for me in the past. Accumulating charges for transaction failures as well. Sorry to hear that portions of your hard work in writing/blogging ended up going to those trans failue costs.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I have transfered my Paypal money to a Japanese bank without any hassles. I wonder why you couldn’t? Maybe depending on the bank? I don’t know.
But good thing you found a use for your funds. I have stopped writing paid posts and will start a new gig soon.
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October 29th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
@Rico
Not that much. I only have one or two opportunities every two weeks. It would have been better if I try to increase my blog ranking again…
@SliceInCircles
I also had bad paypal experiences aside from these fund transfer attempts.
@Grace
Before my bank made some system upgrades, I was able to transfer money from PayPal to my account. Sadly, when I dropped by my bank, nobody knows about paypal
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