Celebrating our first Paypal withdrawal to Al-Rajhi

Thursday nights are happy nights but last night was one hell of a happy Thursday night! Hehe!

In late September, we got the news that our money in Paypal can now be transferred to Visa Debit Card. I can’t say it was like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel because our financial tunnel is honestly have always been brightly lighted like SMART Tunnel. So it is fair that I say the news was to me like seeing the light at Louis Vuitton boutique at the end of the dark Starhill corridor. If you know what I mean.

So following the good news, we decided to go for Al-Rajhi Bank Malaysia for the Visa Debit Card and very soon after we found ourselves floating like angels to Al-Rajhi Bandar Puteri to get one. And we must give credit to the bank’s excellent service, from the resourceful Pak Guard to the helpful Bank Manager; we got the debit card right there and then.

Though we itched and itched to transfer some money from our Paypal right away, we remained patient and waited until other Malaysians have proven successful in obtaining their Paypal money this way. But the wait was so excruciating, on the 28th of October (Sunday), Azman gatai pungkoq shrugged and what the heck, he transferred USD105.00 to Al-Rajhi. That’s USD5.00 for the fee Paypal required and USD100.00 for testing the water. At this point, one had come across this site link, they’d seriously have reassessed their options of digital payments.

So the second phase of waiting began. I personally thought that the transfer would be successful by earliest Monday 5 Nov and Azman thought it will be much later than that. But praise Allah SWT yesterday 1 November 2007 RM328.28 was already credited into the Al-Rajhi account! That’s mere 4 days in processing! We were really happy! Even though the exchange rate is low ( 3.2828) but the foreign exchange rate Ringgit Malaysia (RM) to 1 US Dollar has dropped to 3.30 recently so how can we blame the bank? Besides the amount Al-Rajhi charged us was only RM1.00! Yea!

We were really pleased with this withdrawal success. It’s not the RM328.28 that we were celebrating but the convenience of withdrawing our money this way. Being typical sucker for celebrations, we went out for a nice dinner last night and of course our steaks were paid with Al-Rajhi debit card.

Thank you Al-Rajhi!