How to add funds to a Paypal account without using a bank account

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Tuesday November 16, 2010 at 10:50:54:

Getting a Paypal account opened is one thing and adding funds to your account is another. To open a Paypal account, you ought to apply from a Paypal accepted country.
Once your Paypal account has been opened, Paypal offers you the ability to fund your account using a verified bank account.
Now let's suppose you don't want to or are not able to fund your account using a bank account, are they no other ways of funding your Paypal account?
Well, I guess there is. Here are a couple of ways to fund your Paypal account from whichever country that you are in:

- Receive payments through Paypal (e.g from friends or clients)
- Sell items with Paypal
- Buy Paypal funds from a service provider.

These options mentioned above allow you to fund your Paypal account without going through Paypal directly but through a third party. If you were to go through Paypal, you would need to get a bank account or a Paypal credit card but going through the methods I mentioned above would allow you to still add funds to your account without a bank account.

If you have an Unverified Paypal account, your sending or receiving limit may still be as low as $500 per month but if it were verified, it could go up higher to $2000 and more.

Receive payments through Paypal (e.g from friends or clients)
This is one easy way to fund your account but you are not to hold Paypal liable for any inconveniences. This method involves asking friends to send money to you, donors to donate or your clients to pay you using your paypal email address. All you need to do is to provide them with your email address and they should be able to fund your Paypal account using their own Paypal account. Most people who get their account funded this way normally get it from their clients like online income from merchants offering affiliate commisions or retailers that you help do some freelance work for.

Buy Paypal funds from a service provider
If there are local Paypal funders in your area that offer this service, the best thing to do is to approach them and they normally accept payment in your local currency to fund your paypal account. The same thing you need to do is to provide them with your Paypal email address. The service providers will normally charge a commission for funding your account.

Sell items with Paypal
This is also a quick way to fund your Paypal account. All you would need to do is to create a selling button from within your Paypal account and then publish the product for sale on your website. This would allow you to easily sell online and receive funds directly into your account. People who have been successful at making a good living from this do so by selling instant downloadable digital items using Paypal's IPN system.

So those are a few options for funding your Paypal account and you don't have to limit yourself to using a Paypal verified Bank account.

Comments:
Re: How to add funds to a Paypal account without using a bank account Posted by Nigerian Entrepreneur on Thursday November 25, 2010 at 8:48:55:

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