ujay comments on Paypal now offers accounts for Colombia Paypal In Colombia - how's it work? Hey guys someone who has a paypal account registered with Colombia let me know exactly how it works. I have PAYPAL in the U.S. It works fine there but I'm unsure how it works If a local were to open a paypal account here. I opened a new account in Colombia but it looks as if it doesn't allow any Colombian bank accounts only U.S bank accounts so what use it that for a Colombian with no U.S bank account? Why would I open a Colombian paypal account with a U.S bank account, when I can just open a U.S paypal account instead. Does this allow free transfers of Colombian pesos into and out of Colombian bank accounts like it works in the U.S and every where else in the world? Because I am not seeing that option. It didn't even allow a Colombian Visa card to be added to the account. And the only currency you can keep funds in are Dollars not pesos. At least the good thing is they will no longer limit the account for logging in from a COlombian IP address. I had these bastards shut me down because I was using the ATM paypal card in Colombia. The odd thing is I was using it for almost a year until they shut my account down. They also froze my funds. Which they can do for three months. But I submitted a complaint to the BBB and they gave my funds back to me. Still took a month. They also have suspended my account and will never allow me to use Paypal again. But they are stupid. All I did was open a new U.S bank account and got a new email address and was able to get a paypal account again. Paypal is a godsend for purchasing stuff of Ebay in the U.S and now they got the NEW VIRTUAL CREDIT CARD. You can buy anything off the internet without having to use your credit card. Paypal gives you a virtual number you can use and it just comes out your credit card. That is great I think. So I just use it for purchases. Hopefully they will be able to make PAYPAL work exactly as it does in the U.S for Mercado Libre and Deremate which Ebay owns. And Ebay owns Paypal. So what's the problem? Why isn't it the same for Colombia? This would certainly revolutionize they way Colombians do business here if they got it right. Right now you buy something on Mercadolibre and you got to stand in line at the bank like an idiot to put the money in the sellers account. That's just plain stupid way of doing business. And yet that's how it's done here. Unless the seller accepts credit card, but this limits about 90% of the sellers. They can't afford to setup a credit card service to sell their used couch or what have you. Another function I'd like to see in Colombia is craigslist.org in SPANISH so that it worked like it does every where else in the world. Right now its just full of SPAM and hookers. You check the FREE section and it's empty. You check the free section for Los Angeles and people are giving away 30 inch screen TV, couches, beds, microwaves that work. People would just love craigslist here if they used the darn thing. There's about 100 listings on the site now. Just about all of it nothing but spam. No one is using it. If they were this spam would be flagged by the users and all we'd get is quality classifieds. People would use it for jobs, free stuff, activities, dating, services, everything. No more looking in the dumb ass classified papers which by the way don't even allow you to advertise a business unless you're registered with camara de Comercio. Craigslist would kill that. And kill all the paper classified. Craigslist is and allways will be FREE. Newscorp who owns DirecTV and purchased MYSPACE and PHOTOBUCKET has offered to buy craigslist for 3 billion dollars and the guys don't want to sell it. They want it to be free. And they don't care about money. They have good jobs and live happily. They don't want the 3 billion dollars and then have to hire bodyguards the rest of their lives and look over their shoulders. That's what they say. Interesting folks. We need some internet advancements in this country. People aren't using it. All they know how to do is check their emails and use the messenger. They don't know how to use the social interaction sites to their advantage and this is mainly because most of them are in English Craigslist.org for example. And let's not get into shitty ISP broadband speeds here at double the price of the U.S. I have to uncap my modem just to get a decent speed so I can download all the freaking movies and TV shows at full quality that half a year to premiere here. I've already watched the entire season of Heroes last month. And it's only just come to DirecTV. Anyone in Colombia using an FTA System here? To capture DISH networks for free from the STATES? This is what I was going to do next. Cancel this DirecTV and get 3000 free channels with an FTA system. No more waiting for the shows to get subtitled and premiere on DirecTV or TV cable. The same internet that costs $10 in the U.S. Here I pay 100,000 pesos.