Mission accomplished! After successful withdrawal of money from PayPal to my Public Bank Visa Electron, I had decided to give Tune Money Visa a try. Since I managed to successfully verify my PayPal using the Tune Money Visa, I believe it should not be a problem withdrawing money to the card. Furthermore, I am already using the Public Bank card for my PayPal Premier account and therefore, I can only use the Tune Money for my PayPal Personal account…

Based on previous experience with Public Bank, the money would be in within 4 or 5 working days. I made the withdrawal from PayPal on the 21^st November 2008 and if calculated based on 7 working days, which is the longest number of days mentioned by PayPal, the money should be in latest by 2nd December 2008…

On 29th November 2008, Azrin made a shocking comment that Tune Money might have problems receiving money from PayPal. That was right after the end of the 5th working day and I logged in to Tune Money to check for the money and it was not there…

$105 may not be big to some people but it’s a huge deal for me… That is at least 3 years of hosting fee covered!

Then I got worried! I started hunting for some horror stories about PayPal and Tune Money, hoping to find none but I got a few…

The first one was at Blog Marketing Malaysia by Steven Wong who mentioned this:

Tune Money Debit Card works out able to help us to withdraw Paypal fund, indeed, it is another good news for us as SOHO who keen to know more options for us. Apparently I believe it is not ready for PayPal yet.

I know that it’s an old post dated 20^th November 2007 but that is enough to give me the chill… Further hunting led me to an entry at Paying Off Credit Card Debt Fast and this is what was mentioned there:

It has got nothing to do with PayPal. PayPal completed the transaction on the 15th! Even if Tune Money wants to believe that it’s because of PayPal, then let’s assume that PayPal needs 7 days (Trust me, PayPal never takes 7 days) to complete the transaction, the money should have arrived in my Tune Money Visa debit card account on the 22th. Today is the 28th!

That post was dated 28^th September 2008! That was just a few months back… I went on further and found another one… This last one (I did not feel like looking for more) dated 26^th October 2008 was really scary. It is at Credit Card Debt Mama Pays Off Credit Card Debts and here is what was said:

My PayPal funds withdrawn on the 15th September finally arrived safely in my Tune Money Visa debit card on the 23rd October. 38 days!

It’s PayPal that caused the delay. Not Tune Money. It’s not Tune Money’s fault, but PayPal.

However, this post put the blame on PayPal and not Tune Money and that made things worse…

Anyway, I decided to wait until the end of the 7^th working day and that was yesterday. I checked it again at Tune Money and there was still nothing there. So, I wrote an email asking Tune Money to check the transaction from PayPal. As of the time that this post was started, I have not got any reply from Tune Money…

This morning, at about 2am, I logged in to my Tune Money to check my money again and guess what? I saw a new balance in my account. I checked the transaction and it is confirmed that the PayPal money is in. So, it was not within 5 to 7 working days but it was after the 7^th working days… What a relief!

The rate that I got was not bad at $1 = RM3.602

So, now I have concluded that I have been able to confirm that Tune Money Prepaid Visa Card and Public Bank Visa Electron Debit Card can be used for PayPal withdrawal in Malaysia.

[Edited at 19:17]

Based on discussions with my friends, it is advisable to use other cards to withdraw your PayPal money. I will be withdrawing back to my Public Bank Visa Electron card and this will be my first and last PayPal withdrawal using Tune Money. All the best to you!

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This quick tutorial is dedicated to Malaysian PayPal users who have not tried withdrawing their PayPal money or have doubts that they can actually withdraw their PayPal money to a debit card issued by selected banks or companies.

In this tutorial, I will be withdrawing my PayPal money to my Tune Money Prepaid Visa card. For your information, I have successfully withdrawn PayPal money to my Public Bank Visa Electron Debit card before. This is also applicable to credit cards issued by selected banks in Malaysia but since I do not use any credit card so do not ask me about which credit card that you can use.

Before you start, make sure that your PayPal account has been verified with the card that you are going to withdraw your money to. If you have not done that, please do that and come back to this tutorial later.

1. Log in to your PayPal account.



2. Click Withdraw.



3. Click Withdraw funds to your card. Note the $5.00 Cost indicated there.



4. Enter the amount that you need inclusive of the $5.00 fee and select the card that you want to receive the money to. Click Continue when done.



5. Verify all the information and then click Confirm to proceed.



6. Done. It is a simple process and that should take you less than 5 minutes to complete. Now you can sit back and wait for the money to arrive into your card within the next 5 to 7 working days. I had previously received my money into my Public Bank Visa Electron in 4 days time.

So now you can start earning into your PayPal and then get the money into your card and spend it as you wish.

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Last month I wrote a post introducing a program that you can make some side incomes with and some of the people who read that were quick to point out that myLot is a scam site and we should stay away from it.

Some preferred to wait until the day that I received my payment from myLot and now, your waiting is over since early this morning, I have received an email from PayPal that says… Read below:

That is the proof that some of you have been waiting for and that was achieved by posting for about a month at myLot. So, is that good enough to say that it is not a scam site?

Anyway, I have been tracking my progress for November 2008. This is done to ensure that I would be able to reach the next minimum payout level of $10 by the end of this month.

The graph above is showing my earnings on myLot up to the 11^th. I have set a daily target of $0.35 a day to make sure that by the end of the month I would get at least $10. You can see some obvious drops during the weekends as I spent more time with the family during that time. The rest are done during break time at work.

The above is my accumulated earnings plotted against the accumulated target. From here I can easily see whether I need to spend extra time or just post as usual. I can actually take a day off based on the graph above.

Well, if anybody is interested to find out more about myLot, click here!

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Side Income with myLot

“Congratulations, you have earned enough in October to qualify for November’s payment! We will process payouts on or before November 15.”

That is the message that I have been waiting for from myLot since I started my first post in September 14, 2008. Then due to the recent Raya holidays, I have less time to post and November being my first full month on myLot, I  managed to squeeze in some more posts to make it to the payout.

So, what is myLot? For those who have never heard of it, myLot is a paid to post site where you can earn by starting discussions, responding to discussions and uploading photos. You would also earn a portion from your referrals if they are actively doing the things that I have just mentioned.

Click to enlarge!

You can see that between September 30 to October 12, my earnings are low and that’s when we were having our Raya and I was having too much fun at home and therefore, not much time for myLot. You can also notice some drops during weekends as those are my rest days. We all need some rest, right?

So, if you are interested to join, answer these questions below to see whether you are qualified or not:

1. Can you read and write in English (it does not have to be good)?
2. Do you have some spare or idle time where you have nothing else to do?
3. Do you have a verified PayPal account? This is to receive your payment.
4. Do you want to earn some side income easily?

If you answer yes to all the questions above, then you are qualified to join myLot.

To join, click here!

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Are you looking for some ways to get some side incomes from your blog? Project Wonderful is an excellent program where you can sell your ad space to people for them advertise their products or sites.

Advertisers would bid for your ad space and the highest bidder wins the spot and you can decide whether to get involved or just let the system handles it for you while you are sleeping or doing other things.

I have just got my second payment from them and one thing that I noticed so far is that payment is processed fast and you will get your money in your PayPal within one or two days.

Let me tell you something about this program. Firstly, there are many ad types that you can choose but the most popular size is the 125 x 125 box. You can see this on my side bar just below the Nuffnang ad. I have put it into 2 rows by 2 columns and this layout can be controlled and decided by you. If you scroll further down my side bar, You can see that I have also used a 300 x 250 ad size just above the Adsense.

Then you can also decide whether yo want to approve all ads before they are displayed, or only approve those ads from advertisers that you have not approved before or automatically approve all ads. I choose the auto option since I do not want to miss any ad request from my potential advertisers.

On top of that, you can set your ad rating so that the system will filter the advertisers and their ads. For example, if you do not want to accept NSFW ads, then you just simply set that option and the system will do the rest for you.

So, if you have some space to rent on your blog and your other ads not giving you the money that you want, give this a try and who knows, this might work for you as it is working for me.

Related post: Wonderful

Wonderful! That’s what Project Wonderful is all about. I have been using quite a number of ads services to monetize my blog but nothing has been as good as Project Wonderful in terms of making money from selling ad spaces.

This is the newest ad service that I am using for my blog and yet it has become the fastest and highest earner so far. I have even been paid promptly when I requested for my fund to be withdrawn to my PayPal.

What makes it unique? The ads that you put on your blog are not CPC, CPA or even CPM. You know how difficult it is to earn from those type of ads especially when you do not really have amazing traffics coming over to your site.

Project Wonderful ads are based on the time that the ads are displayed and therefore, there is no such thing as click fraud. You can even click on ads on your own blog and you would not be penalized for that. On top of that, you can also create your own ads and bid for available slots.

Whether you are going to be a publisher or an advertiser, its Infinite Auction would be something that you do not want to pass. Actually, that’s what it is all about. It is about bidding and the highest bidder wins and everybody wins as well. Isn’t that wonderful or not?

I do not think that I can explain this any better. So, if you have spaces on your blog that you want to monetize, head over to Project Wonderful to learn how you can do that.