PayPal China (How to send money with the Friends & Family option?
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Hey guys and gals!
I've been having such an issue with getting money on PayPal since I moved to China in August 2019.
Firstly, Customer Service at PayPal has emailed and said I have a "Personal" account, but the options are still as a Business account and I really don't know how to fix this. It makes it impossible to get money from my family in the US and or send it back without some sort of deduction. I cannot get the "Paying for Goods and services removed to send back the money.
Secondly, I haven't been able to get the money off PayPal China whihc is why I'm trying to send it back to my family to try an alternative route. Does anyone knows how I can get it off. NOTE: My bank, China Construction Bank said they don't take PayPal wire transfers.
Thirdly, how do you get the CNY, Chinese Yuan, currency option. Maybe that could be an issue? I don't understand how I'm in China, using PayPal China and the Chinese currency isn't among the options.
Fourthly, I haven't been able to send the money directly back home, my country is Antigua and Barbuda (in the Caribbean/West Indies. It keeps coming as an error saying something about user agreement. Transaction keeps being denied.
Mostly right now, I just wanna know how to send the money back to the original sender without deductions (how to manually put the Friends and Family option).
NOTE: PayPal had advised me to close my previous account and open a China one. Nothing has been working at all for me.
Someone please help!
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The friends / family option is not available in China.
The only way to send funds is by using the goods / services option.
If you have funds in your balance then you could try using the 'refund' option instead if they sent the funds to you in the first instance.
Secondly folks in Antigua and Barbuda need to read the below link to receive funds in their country.
https://www.paypal.com/al/webapps/mpp/ua/recpymt-full?locale.x=en_AL
Advice is voluntary.
Kudos / Solution appreciated.

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