Dear Readers,

I need your help.

For years I have been writing to Ebay and PayPal to inquire as to why their services are not available in Pakistan. I have never received a reply from them. This year, I decided to pursue this more assertively. In January of this year I wrote a letter to the CEOs of Ebay and PayPal respectively (the contents of the letter can be read here). I waited for a month – no reply from them.

Just yesterday I wrote another letter to them. Let us see if second time is the charm.

However, what I need from you – is to spread the word – on your blog. The more you help in spreading this issue around – the more activists and lobbyist effort we can garner.

All I am asking you is for you to highlight the same in your own words (about the two letters I wrote) to your readers. Feel free to highlight the non-availability of both Ebay and Paypal in Pakistan as you feel fit. But highlight you must!

Feel free to cross-link to the two letters: (it is not mandatory that you do so, lest I be accused of increasing the back-links for my blog – back-linking won’t help me in any manner, since I do not run any advertisements on my website, hence traffic and popularity is not something I am seeking).

An Open Letter to John Donahoe, CEO of Ebay (Parent company of PayPal)
http://faisalkhan.com/?p=554

PayPal in Pakistan (Part II)
http://faisalkhan.com/?p=623

It is very easy to rant in this digital age… A lot of people have personally written emails to me, saying it won’t work. Citing many theories as to why PayPal / Ebay does not want to do business here in Pakistan. The Nay-sayers are plenty. But those are are willing to help and contribute towards this effort/initiative – outnumber the Nay-sayers by orders of magnitude.

I think we need to approach this with patience and without giving up hope. Dr. Ian Wilmut who first successfully cloned “Dolly” the sheep, got it right after 276 attempts. Imagine that – 276 attempts!!!

Being persistent pays off.

I am no Dr. Wilmut, and we certainly have no sheep to be cloned. But if it takes 276 attempts to get PayPal in Pakistan – why not!

A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.
An ancient Chinese proverb

I thank you in advance.

Regards,

FAISAL KHAN

Am updating this article: Have setup a website that now has all the relevant information:

http://OnlinePaymentsGuide.com

A lot of people continuously bombard me with the questions as to who the best online payment processor is, from where can I get an online merchant account for their website to accept payments, is there an alternative of Paypal, How can I get a paypal account, etc.

So here is my condensed list. Over the days, I will slowly make public the reviews I had done on each and everyone of these payment processors / gateways, etc.

For now, be content with the list, hope it helps. If you know of any other, please do write it down in the comments section.

2CO
Alert Pay
Alter Gold
Authorize.net
Bank of America
Blue Pay
Cash U
CC Avenue
CC Bill
CC Now
CDG Commerce
C-Gold
Charge
Concorde FS Net
CyberBit
Dao Pay
Durango Merchant Services
eCharge
EBS (Processor for Indian companies only)
EC Suite
Echo Online
E-Gold
Elavon
Electracash
Entropay
ePassporte
Face Book Payment
Application
Fail Safe Payments
Fastspring
First Pay
Gate2Shop
GloBill
Go Real Time
Google Payments
iKobo
InstaBill
IntaBill
Internet Secure
iTransact
Liberty Reserve
Link Point
Miva Merchant
MoneyBookers
Money Gram
Net Billing
No Chex
Pay Omo
Pay Pal
Pay Pay
Payoneer
Pecunix
Planet Payment
Plimus
Plug n Play
PS Bills
PSI Gate
RegNow
Revolution Money Exchange
Robo Xchange
RTWare
Safe Charge
Safe Pay Card
Safe Pay Solutions
Skip Jack
Trans First
Via Klix
Western Union
WM Transfer
World Pay
W-Pay
Xcoin
Xoom

Entries in Bold, needless to say are the most well-known ones.