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Update: Use rubles when paypalling to Russia
5 years ago
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This specifically pertains to transactions between US clients and Russian artists. I just didn’t have enough title space to say that. I’m not sure if the reverse is true if a Russian client commissions a US artist.
I wanted to make a fresh journal so people who had a similar issue to me knows the solution. If you try to send money to a Russian artist from a US account, you must send it in Rubles. Trying to send it as USD will block you because of ambiguous “restrictions”.
This also applies if the artist sends an invoice requesting USD. They HAVE to send the invoice requesting Rubles or you will not be able to send them anything.
Big thanks to
Juliy_Miuliy for explaining this in the previous journal.
I wanted to make a fresh journal so people who had a similar issue to me knows the solution. If you try to send money to a Russian artist from a US account, you must send it in Rubles. Trying to send it as USD will block you because of ambiguous “restrictions”.
This also applies if the artist sends an invoice requesting USD. They HAVE to send the invoice requesting Rubles or you will not be able to send them anything.
Big thanks to
Juliy_Miuliy for explaining this in the previous journal.
It doesn’t seem to apply to Canada, because I was able to send the money through a Canadian friend to the artist.
I pass on the information that was passed to me:
many Russian artists have lost their passport data on PayPal. They need to go through verification again. PayPal didn't send anything about this in the notifications, so no one knows about it. My verification was also lost. This should be a global solution to this problem.