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I received a question from Stary a short while ago.

I just received a payment in USD from France in my Premier Paypal acc & Paypal charged me a fee of 3.9% + USD0.30. Isn’t the usual fee 3.4% + USD0.30?

I apologize for the confusion. In my previous post on “Which PayPal Account Should I Signed Up For?“, I did not elaborate on types of transaction fees. There are 2 types of PayPal transaction fees namely domestic transaction fees and cross border transaction fees. [Read more →]

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Very often, friends and customers ask which PayPal account they should sign up for when PayPal display 3 choices of PayPal accounts. Many online sellers are concern about the transaction fees charged  by PayPal when they receive online payments. A quick answer to that is to register for Premier or Business account to enjoy lower transaction fees.

Types of PayPal Accounts
There are 3 types of PayPal accounts which you can sign up online. Each has its own transaction fees, features and functionality. They are:

a) Personal
b) Premier
c) Business

A Personal account is mainly used by individuals [Read more →]

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A business partner sent me a page of a defaced PM’s Office website. The loophole allows any page to be appended to the URL which will display it in the content area (frame) of the webpage. Click here to enjoy!

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When MagentoCommerce was finally released for production use on 31’st March 2008, open source e-commerce has finally evolved. The long wait for a bespoke open source shopping cart software is finally over.

I have installed several preview versions in a few Linux servers which are located mainly in Malaysia or the US. From my experience, installation of Magento version 1.0 is a breeze. Despite being a newly-launched product and written from the ground up, Magento’s features in both [Read more →]

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I love Google Adsense. Adsense has always make me excited when the clicks and income just keep increasing. Part of the reason, I love statistics and $$. Despite the recent Google smack of my Page Rank, I will be receiving my Adsense income again next month! Woohooo!

Most of this income will be used for my upcoming Mount Kinabalu and white-water rafting in Sabah. Care to donate to my Sabah trip fund raising programme? :D

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