Your Experience With MoneyBookers?

Kassem

Hey everyone. As you all know, Lebanon is too lame to have PayPal (which is yet another good reason to leave Lebanon). So, MoneyBookers might be our only solution. I know for sure that we can pay using MoneyBookers but has any of you guys received money to their MB account in Lebanon? I really need to be sure because I have a client in USA and I do not want to receive the money through Western Union or bank transfer cuz I'll have to lose 30$ - 38$ per transaction. So please share your experience...

P.S: I searched the forums for similar topics and I know this topic was discussed before and I've read all the threads that talked about it, but none of the topics stated clearly whether we can receive money from MB in Lebanon.

And btw, what about Google Checkout? Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Kassem

ok I messaged the MoneyBookers customer service concerning the issue and here's their reply:

Dear Kassem Darwish,

Thank you for contacting Moneybookers Customer Service.

Further to your enquiry, please be kindly advised that payments between US customers, and US customers and international customers using the Send Money and Receive Money services are not supported. Therefore, the transaction in question using Moneybookers will not be possible.

Please excuse us for any possible inconvenience caused.

Should you have any questions regarding our service, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind Regards,
Rose
Moneybookers Customer Support

Unfortunately, that's not possible. Our only hope is that PayPal would finally support Lebanon and make their service available to us...

J4D

that will happen once we have a proper network and IP addressing system :)

Kassem

jadberro wrotethat will happen once we have a proper network and IP addressing system :)

Then let's hope Aliens would take over Lebanon first, because that's much more likely to happen :)

arithma

Get an account in some local bank. Make them wire the transfer to your account using your IBAN number. They will have to pay the transfer expenditure, business standard.