Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat
by LeifCarrotson on Friday January 18, 2019 @06:52PM
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10 months ago, I arrived in Shanghai for a week-long business trip and was able to create a WeChat account, but unable to add funds to Wechat Pay by any mechanisms available to me...I had cash from the airport but it took giving some cash to my local sponsor and having them send me some funds to do something as simple as ride a rental bike.
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Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat
by samstave on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:22PM
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Sounds like you just found a business opportunity for people in china.
Re:To Cover China, There’s No Substitute for WeChat
by lnanek2 on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:58PM
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There actually are businesses that will validate your account for you (if you are really willing to give them your username and password), and others that will send you money through the app that you can then spend to some degree (1000CNY max balance, 200CNY max sent at a time) without having a Chinese bank account of your own. They do charge way more than the exchange rate for this service.