Today, we are happy to announce that the RBI has allowed us to continue local bank withdrawals for settlements for exports of goods and services. We are currently making changes to comply with Indian regulations for settlements for exports of goods and services, and we anticipate that, as of Wednesday, March 3rd, customers will be able to use our bank withdrawal service.

As part of the changes, you will be required to fill out a new field entitled ‘Export Code’ when you request a withdrawal. This information is required under the current laws of India in order to identify the nature of cross-border merchant transactions.

On Monday, March 1st, we will be back in touch with specific instructions on how you can move your money into your bank account.

I’m sure you will get the funds credited to your bank account very soon…You can blindly trust paypal…So I would suggest you to wait till 5th March.

I checked your PayPal account and I do see here the withdrawal you made on February 10, 2010 for Rs.XXX INR. Right now, the status of the withdrawal on your PayPal account is already completed, and this is because the funds were successfully taken from your PayPal account balance. Now, I am sure that you are aware of the issues that we have had with bank transfers to Indian accounts. Now, basically right now, we will not be reversing the funds back to the balance anymore as we are still trying to have it posted on the bank instead. Rest assured though that the funds are safe and will be credited to you.

In the meantime, I would recommend that you check and visit http://www.thepaypalblog.com for updates on this matter.

We hope you understand our situation and thank you for your patience.

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What crap? Now they say they are NOT going to reverse the funds back too…. If Paypal takes 6 months (or even more) to get this issue of personal remittance sorted out, we have the funds blocked. WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE MONEY?