pparently, resolved in this case seems to mean that paypal has assured the freelancing sites of something positive. Rentacoder has sent reversed payments back to paypal and elance has posted that the issue has been resolved. To clarify about rentacoder, my paypal balance is 0 now again back from the negative value, because RAC has sent the payment to paypal again.
But the issue is not actually resolved as far as withdrawing is concerned. That seems to be the current status. And yes, the withdrawals to the bank is still showing as completed while the bank accounts do not show the transaction.
Links:
Elance: See the update on the top http://elance.zendesk.com/forums/30972/entries/108402
Paypal: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/personal-payments-and-local-bank-transfers-in-india/
Elance seemed to say that the paypal payment reversing issue has been resolved. However, resolved in this case seems to mean that paypal has assured the freelancing sites of something positive. Rentacoder has sent reversed payments back to paypal and elance has posted that the issue has been resolved. To clarify about rentacoder, my paypal balance is 0 now again back from the negative value, because RAC has sent the payment to paypal again.
But the issue is not actually resolved as far as withdrawals to the bank is concerned. That seems to be the current status. And yes, the withdrawals to the bank is still showing as completed while the bank accounts do not show the transaction. If the withdrawal that I made in the beginning of feb are actually completed, then rac has sent me double the amount they owe me, which does not seem likely. Paypal should atleast update the status of the bank transactions they show to ‘failed’ or something. Do let me your situations in the comments.
Links:
Elance: See the update on the top http://elance.zendesk.com/forums/30972/entries/108402
Paypal: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/personal-payments-and-local-bank-transfers-in-india/
Posted in Uncategorized.
By Gray Dot
– February 7, 2010
Elance seems to say that the issue has been fixed
http://elance.zendesk.com/forums/30972/entries/108402
Update: We are happy to report that the issue with PayPal transactions to and from India has been resolved. PayPal has made the needed changes to allow payments to flow through properly going forward. In addition, the funds from any reversed transactions have been credited back to your Elance balance. You are now able to withdraw these funds using your PayPal account or another withdraw method of choice.
Posted in Troubleshooting.
By Gray Dot
– February 6, 2010
Paypal is reversing payments made by buyers to personal accounts of sellers in India, but the status of withdrawals to Indian banks shows completed.
Rentacoder.com has a notice:
Site Wide Message:
Attention Indian coders who were paid via PayPal this payment period: PayPal is experiencing internal issues with payments to India. We sent all payments to them by Thursday February 4th (in the same manner we have done every month prior). Thursday 67 Indian PayPal users received an email from PayPal stating “We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India. “…despite the fact that the payments were not sent in this manner. Unfortunately today PayPal reversed an additional 137 payments (this time supposedly because of the shipping address). We are working with our PayPal rep and have escalated this issue to PayPal management, to determine if there is any way we can send these through PayPal. However, if we cannot, we may have to ask you to switch to another payment method. We will let you know more once we find out more.
Odesk has a forum post for it.
http://www.odesk.com/community/node/10252
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/paypal-halts-india/ (the most popular link)
http://www.pluggd.in/paypal-india-outage-no-payments-to-or-from-india-297/
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/02/paypal-stops-india-payments/
http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20869
http://techie-buzz.com/annoyances/paypal-stops-personal-payments-for-india.html
http://www.inforum.in/lounge/5605-problems-paypal-india.html
Paypal is reversing payments made by buyers to personal accounts of sellers in India, but the status of withdrawals to Indian banks shows completed.
At the moment, it seems due to either an issue with RBI requiring more documentation for the transactions or transaction details from Paypal or due to Paypal having issues with their partners/stakeholders in India.
Rentacoder.com has a notice:
Site Wide Message:
Attention Indian coders who were paid via PayPal this payment period: PayPal is experiencing internal issues with payments to India. We sent all payments to them by Thursday February 4th (in the same manner we have done every month prior). Thursday 67 Indian PayPal users received an email from PayPal stating “We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India. “…despite the fact that the payments were not sent in this manner. Unfortunately today PayPal reversed an additional 137 payments (this time supposedly because of the shipping address). We are working with our PayPal rep and have escalated this issue to PayPal management, to determine if there is any way we can send these through PayPal. However, if we cannot, we may have to ask you to switch to another payment method. We will let you know more once we find out more.
Odesk has a forum post for it.
Here are some other links mentioning it having lots of user comments
And the following post seems to confuse the issue some more.
Wierdly, the following is the only result on bing. 
And it doesn’t show up on google.
Some more links
http://www.earnmoneyspace.com/forum/index.php?topic=48605.msg487063
http://www.binaryturf.com/advisory-paypal-reverses-personal-payments-indian-accounts/
http://agilebanking.posterous.com/paypal-halts-personal-payment-transactions-fr
Posted in Uncategorized.
Tagged with paypal.
By Gray Dot
– February 5, 2010
To Cake or not
I am starting work on a project for a client that involves complicated workflows when the customer orders a product and also a simple user interface. Even thought I have worked with a few php frameworks, this is the first time I am starting solo on a project from scratch. While looking around for the best options that fit the bill, I shortlisted 3 options
1. Core PHP
2. Drupal
3. CakePHP or Zend Framework
Option 1 might be the simplest to start with but would be not be a wise decision since it would be a maintenance and extensibility nightmare. I started working on a prototype for Drupal, but a few weeks down the line, the limits of a CMS for such a project became obvious. The best option now seems to be to use a framework, which should have been obvious from the start in hindsight.
I considered going with Zend but Cake seems to be much lighter and also places more emphasis on convention which supposedly makes me a ‘better’ programmer. Additionally, the fact that Zend seems to be more feature rich that cake actually pushed me more towards cake since the project is quite simple technically. And Zend seems to be too powerful for that.
So I am off to the bakery.
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Cheers and Peace!
Jeba Singh Emmanuel
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Those who would joyously march in rank and file have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.
–Albert Einstein
I am starting work on a project for a client that involves complicated workflows when the customer orders a product and also a simple user interface. Even thought I have worked with a few php frameworks, this is the first time I am starting solo on a project from scratch. While looking around for the best options that fit the bill, I shortlisted 3 options
1. Core PHP
2. Drupal
3. CakePHP or Zend Framework
Option 1 might be the simplest to start with but would be not be a wise decision since it would be a maintenance and extensibility nightmare. I started working on a prototype for Drupal, but a few weeks down the line, the limits of a CMS for such a project became obvious. The best option now seems to be to use a framework, which should have been obvious from the start in hindsight.
I considered going with Zend but Cake seems to be much lighter and also places more emphasis on convention which supposedly makes me a ‘better’ programmer. Additionally, the fact that Zend seems to be more feature rich that cake actually pushed me more towards cake since the project is quite simple technically. And Zend seems to be too powerful for that.
So I am off to the bakery.
Posted in Troubleshooting.
By Gray Dot
– February 5, 2010
