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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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There was a glitch in some credit card transactions using BPI (and Citibank, HSBC) credit cards on BDO credit card terminals between August 16-18.
The BDO credit card terminals debitted dollar amounts by mistake instead of the peso amount.
BDO and BPI were quick to make the correction.
Today, ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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I described my PayPal dilemma last April. I got things resolved tonight! Wahoo! I expect to get my money via Paypal in the next 24-48 hours. Yey!
So let me describe what my scenario.
I have two Paypal Accounts.
Account A: Based in Canada, created in 2003. Cannot ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
I was at Bolinao (see Bolinao photos here) last year. When it was time to pay, we couldn't use our credit cards because the resort didn't have a credit card terminal, sometimes known as a Point of Sale Machine, Credit Card swiper or in jologs terms, "kaskas".
The cashier explained that they ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Yey! I did my first PayPal Purchase today. Yeah yeah, call me a late-bloomer. I've been using direct credit card purchases for the past 5 or so years and it's only now that I activated my Philippine PayPal account.
Today, I bought some tickets to Avenue Q through Anton's website.
Natuwa naman ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
BPI Recently launched Cardless Transactions! Now, anybody can make ATM deposits to any BPI account through selected BPI ATMs even without the ATM. The same goes with bills payment.
BPI Express Teller Cardless Deposit / Bills Payment
Now you don't have to rush to a BPI branch or spend your time waiting ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
I created my first PayPal account back in 2003 at a time when PayPal was not available for the Philippines. I created the account as I was tinkering with an online remittance solution for the common Filipino.
I did a work-around at that time and used my friend's Canada postal address ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
This is about paypass. Paypass is a payment system where the credit card does not need to be swiped it just needs to be tapped on a device.
I'm in SM Mall of Asia came from Shapes and I happen to see one of the terminal of paypass. I spoke to ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Ah, the zen of selling on eBay! I'm far from it.
Just posted my first item on eBay.ph .
It's a Creative Zen Micro 5Gb Brand new MP3 Player with starting bid of Php3,999 only! Very affordable!
http://www.ebay.ph/viItem?ItemId=290157473655
Made some comparisons. This guy over at Sulit.com.ph is selling his second-hand, 1-year used unit for Php6,000.
Mine's ...
Posted in Gadgets, e-commerce | 3 Comments »
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Notice the earphone jack on some ATMs?
I was suspicious first time I saw them. Thought they were being used for an ATM scam. I was told by a banker that all BPI ATMs in Quezon City had these earphone jacks. Quezon City mandated it daw.
One time I was in Serendra, ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
I got pissed when I saw my last HSBC Bill.
There was a Mabuhay Miles membership fee of P500. What the?! The miles for every credit card purchase -- this should be a free add-on, and that was precisely the reason I got an HSBC mabuhay miles card. But they charge a ...
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