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post Nov 30 2019, 09:23 AM, updated 7y ago

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Guys, I had rmb in my wechat wallet
And Ytd I tried to transfer out but failed due to I am not registered with any debit/credit cards from China

Anyone got solutions to this?

I am in Malaysia, can I use any Malaysia banks card that are recognised by wechat?

This is a recent rule, early of this year I still can transfer in and out

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post Nov 30 2019, 09:29 AM

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i'm a step better than you but still the same as you

i have a chinese bank account/union pay card but the china phone number that i use doesn't have international roaming so i can't receive sms to add to my wechat account...
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post Nov 30 2019, 09:34 AM

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QUOTE(Chengi @ Nov 30 2019, 09:29 AM)
i'm a step better than you but still the same as you

i have a chinese bank account/union pay card but the china phone number that i use doesn't have international roaming so i can't receive sms to add to my wechat account...
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Means after u have China bank account, u need China number?? Can't u register with local number??

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post Nov 30 2019, 09:42 AM

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there are few requirements to open a chinese bank account. one of the requirement is to have a china local phone number.
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post Nov 30 2019, 11:46 AM

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QUOTE(Chengi @ Nov 30 2019, 09:42 AM)
there are few requirements to open a chinese bank account. one of the requirement is to have a china local phone number.
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Regulations have change since 2-3 years ago, now need employment letter, electricity or water bills in your name etc etc.
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post Dec 1 2019, 08:02 AM

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Wechat is a joke.
They might as well make it exclusive to PRC.
My account is still blocked because i didnt have a friend to unblock it.

You dont even need to try on the wallet with all these requirements.
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post Dec 1 2019, 03:26 PM

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QUOTE(adamw @ Nov 30 2019, 11:46 AM)
Regulations have change since 2-3 years ago, now need employment letter, electricity or water bills in your name etc etc.
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i really just got it like 3 weeks ago. These were the requirements:

if i recall correctly, the requirements are

1) Malaysia Tax number
2) China address
3) China phone number
4) Passport

some bank required additional documents ie visa longer than 6 months and others
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post Dec 2 2019, 01:41 PM

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Use Alipay tour pass.

Top up up to 5000 RMB.
Use passport
After 90 days leftover money will come back to you.

https://www.soyacincau.com/2019/11/06/alipa...s-for-tourists/
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post Dec 2 2019, 03:12 PM

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QUOTE(LaiN87 @ Dec 2 2019, 01:41 PM)
Use Alipay tour pass.

Top up up to 5000 RMB.
Use passport
After 90 days leftover money will come back to you.

https://www.soyacincau.com/2019/11/06/alipa...s-for-tourists/
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can give me more info on this? i can't link my debit card in alipay apps.
any idea whats the conversion rate and stuff?
heading to china this month end so if alipay can give better conversion rate than money changer then i might as well use alipay

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post Dec 2 2019, 06:06 PM

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QUOTE(Burningsunz @ Dec 2 2019, 03:12 PM)
can give me more info on this? i can't link my debit card in alipay apps.
any idea whats the conversion rate and stuff?
heading to china this month end so if alipay can give better conversion rate than money changer then i might as well use alipay
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Try this link.
https://rapidtravelchai.boardingarea.com/alipay-tour-pass/

I tried setting it up but I was too late.
In the end it didn't work out as well.
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post Dec 3 2019, 10:18 AM

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QUOTE(LaiN87 @ Dec 2 2019, 06:06 PM)
Try this link.
https://rapidtravelchai.boardingarea.com/alipay-tour-pass/

I tried setting it up but I was too late.
In the end it didn't work out as well.
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try change your wechat to international version then only can use tour pass ..
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QUOTE(LaiN87 @ Dec 2 2019, 06:06 PM)
Try this link.
https://rapidtravelchai.boardingarea.com/alipay-tour-pass/

I tried setting it up but I was too late.
In the end it didn't work out as well.
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i read the comment all the payment still confusing and alot can't be used even after top up.
but can only top up rmb2000 and cannot top up again once you used finish is like serving no purpose cause i usually bring more than 10k rmb to china.
guess i have to carry all the cash with me again and losing few hundred rmb for the conversion rate losses at money changer.
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post Dec 3 2019, 07:35 PM

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Just want to share my experience.

I will be going to China end of this month. For the last 1 week+, I have been trying to register for Wechat Pay and AliPay. I tried a few of my cards on AliPay (TourPass), all of them have been unsuccessful. I received the error related to "High Risk Card...". Then, yesterday afternoon I was messing with the chat bot inside Alipay app. I even typed some curse word like "F*ck you". lol. I didn't know what I did and it was transferred to a real support staff. After chatting, she said someone will call me tomorrow (which is today). I received the call about 2 hours ago. She said there will be an email send to me, and I will need to submit My passport and also the photo of my credit card. I just did that. And hopefully there will be a good news for the next few days.

Last night, I was playing with the Wechat Pay as well. I selected the region as "China". I was successfully Added my Visa Card there! I tried to top up to the WeChat Pay balance, all my cards will show errors. I believe it only allows top up balance using a China bank card. There is a page which is used to verify my real name identity, I tried to click everywhere, but there is no way for me to submit my passport. So right now, my Wechat Pay account is still NOT verified.

Just now, I tried to purchase the train ticket via "Rail & Flights" inside the Wechat Pay. The first time it failed. The 2nd time, It was successful! I receive the email "Thank you for your using Travelgo.com. You reservation has been submitted.Travelgo.com will attempt to reserve this ticket for you and purchase it automatically when the pre-sale period has begun."

I compare the train ticket price on wechat pay vs trip.com, it is CNY 20 more expensive than trip.com. Anyway, I just wanted to try to see if wechat pay actually works. And it did!

I will know for sure if works when I see my online credit card statement for the next few days.
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post Dec 4 2019, 08:06 AM

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QUOTE(mobileoop @ Dec 3 2019, 07:35 PM)
Just want to share my experience.

I will be going to China end of this month. For the last 1 week+, I have been trying to register for Wechat Pay and AliPay. I tried a few of my cards on AliPay (TourPass), all of them have been unsuccessful. I received the error related to "High Risk Card...". Then, yesterday afternoon I was messing with the chat bot inside Alipay app. I even typed some curse word like "F*ck you". lol. I didn't know what I did and it was transferred to a real support staff. After chatting, she said someone will call me tomorrow (which is today). I received the call about 2 hours ago. She said there will be an email send to me, and I will need to submit My passport and also the photo of my credit card. I just did that. And hopefully there will be a good news for  the next few days.

Last night, I was playing with the Wechat Pay as well. I selected the region as "China". I was successfully Added my Visa Card there! I tried to top up to the WeChat Pay balance, all my cards will show errors. I believe it only allows top up balance using a China bank card. There is a page which is used to verify my real name identity, I tried to click everywhere, but there is no way for me to submit my passport. So right now, my Wechat Pay account is still NOT verified.

Just now, I tried to purchase the train ticket via "Rail & Flights" inside the Wechat Pay. The first time it failed. The 2nd time, It was successful! I receive the email "Thank you for your using Travelgo.com. You reservation has been submitted.Travelgo.com will attempt to reserve this ticket for you and purchase it automatically when the pre-sale period has begun."

I compare the train ticket price on wechat pay vs trip.com, it is CNY 20 more expensive than trip.com. Anyway, I just wanted to try to see if wechat pay actually works. And it did!

I will know for sure if works when I see my online credit card statement for the next few days.
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my god bro, so much of error and mistakes going around. Keep us posted see how it goes bro!
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post Dec 4 2019, 09:14 AM

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QUOTE(mobileoop @ Dec 3 2019, 07:35 PM)
Just want to share my experience.

I will be going to China end of this month. For the last 1 week+, I have been trying to register for Wechat Pay and AliPay. I tried a few of my cards on AliPay (TourPass), all of them have been unsuccessful. I received the error related to "High Risk Card...". Then, yesterday afternoon I was messing with the chat bot inside Alipay app. I even typed some curse word like "F*ck you". lol. I didn't know what I did and it was transferred to a real support staff. After chatting, she said someone will call me tomorrow (which is today). I received the call about 2 hours ago. She said there will be an email send to me, and I will need to submit My passport and also the photo of my credit card. I just did that. And hopefully there will be a good news for  the next few days.

Last night, I was playing with the Wechat Pay as well. I selected the region as "China". I was successfully Added my Visa Card there! I tried to top up to the WeChat Pay balance, all my cards will show errors. I believe it only allows top up balance using a China bank card. There is a page which is used to verify my real name identity, I tried to click everywhere, but there is no way for me to submit my passport. So right now, my Wechat Pay account is still NOT verified.

Just now, I tried to purchase the train ticket via "Rail & Flights" inside the Wechat Pay. The first time it failed. The 2nd time, It was successful! I receive the email "Thank you for your using Travelgo.com. You reservation has been submitted.Travelgo.com will attempt to reserve this ticket for you and purchase it automatically when the pre-sale period has begun."

I compare the train ticket price on wechat pay vs trip.com, it is CNY 20 more expensive than trip.com. Anyway, I just wanted to try to see if wechat pay actually works. And it did!

I will know for sure if works when I see my online credit card statement for the next few days.
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i have been using tourpass in china just last week, works fine like normal alipay, can pay for cab and food and everything.
tourpass is super easy to sign up, not sure what you have been doing, i managed to get it working in less than 30 minutes.

already spent more than CNY 3000 so far.
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I had spend more than 20k monthly on tour pass.
This is my experience
I went to first bank and tell me better go another bank as it take 2-3 month for verification, go to 2nd bank and require my employment letter and address, go to 3rd bank even ask require minimum 180 days in china and pay tax.

In the end i went to ICBC and get a tour card, register wechat pay and alipay with no hassle, what you require is actually get a China fren and use their mobile phone in case any thing goes wrong, but seriously it really painful getting bank account in china, when everything in China does not use much cash now.
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post Dec 4 2019, 10:59 AM

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At 9 am just now, I receive a notification on the Alipay mentioned that they are reviewing the limitation of my account. Hopefully, it is a success later. :D
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post Dec 4 2019, 11:01 AM

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QUOTE(kons @ Dec 4 2019, 09:14 AM)
i have been using tourpass in china just last week, works fine like normal alipay, can pay for cab and food and everything.
tourpass is super easy to sign up, not sure what you have been doing, i managed to get it working in less than 30 minutes.

already spent more than CNY 3000 so far.
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You are the luck one! Not everyone has the same smooth experience like you. If you read the comment section of https://rapidtravelchai.boardingarea.com/alipay-tour-pass/ you will see some people can not activate the alipay as well. One particular person had the exact same error that I saw = Error message “Fund loading failed” The current transaction is risky and we interrupted the transaction for your security.
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QUOTE(guardioo @ Dec 4 2019, 10:39 AM)
I had spend more than 20k monthly on tour pass.
This is my experience
I went to first bank and tell me better go another bank as it take 2-3 month for verification, go to 2nd bank and require my employment letter and address, go to 3rd bank even ask require minimum 180 days in china and pay tax.

In the end i went to ICBC and get a tour card, register wechat pay and alipay with no hassle, what you require is actually get a China fren and use their mobile phone in case any thing goes wrong, but seriously it really painful getting bank account in china, when everything in China does not use much cash now.
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Right now, it does not require a china bank account nor a china bank card anymore to use wechat pay or alipay. Maybe it is still under experiment phrase. Still have lots of limitations.
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post Dec 4 2019, 04:06 PM

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i managed to use alipay tourpass without much issue during my trip to china last month. i linked my rhb credit card to my alipay account and get myself a hk data sim before the trip and it worked perfectly. i top up a few round of my alipay balance during the trip, no issue. only one thing to take note is never try to transfer rmb from your alipay to any local chinese. i bought something from the tour guide and have tried to pay him by transferring bal from my alipay to his alipay. my alipay account got blocked after a few unsuccessful attempts. howver, i managed to call local alipay helpline and got it all sort out in a morning.
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post Dec 4 2019, 06:34 PM

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QUOTE(hhkong @ Dec 4 2019, 04:06 PM)
i managed to use alipay tourpass without much issue during my trip to china last month. i linked my rhb credit card to my alipay account and get myself a hk data sim before the trip and it worked perfectly. i top up a few round of my alipay balance during the trip, no issue. only one thing to take note is never try to transfer rmb from your alipay to any local chinese. i bought something from the tour guide and have tried to pay him by transferring bal from my alipay to his alipay. my alipay account got blocked after a few unsuccessful attempts. howver, i managed to call local alipay helpline and got it all sort out in a morning.
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What do you see under "Identity Verification"? My account is still showed as "Unverified".

Other than the hk data sim, do you use alipay for other transaction? If yes, what are the transactions?

An update on my case, I receive the notification related to "Account limitation Removed". I thought I could add then CNY 2000 via Tourpass already. I just tried it and I still received the "Fund loading failed" error!

At least, I believe the Wechat pay is working fine for me. As I already received the Train Ticket Pickup Code. But, I need Alipay just for backup.
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post Dec 5 2019, 06:52 AM

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QUOTE(mobileoop @ Dec 4 2019, 06:34 PM)
What do you see under "Identity Verification"? My account is still showed as "Unverified".

Other than the hk data sim, do you use alipay for other transaction? If yes, what are the transactions?

An update on my case, I receive the notification related to "Account limitation Removed". I thought I could add then CNY 2000 via Tourpass already. I just tried it and I still received the "Fund loading failed" error!

At least, I believe the Wechat pay is working fine for me. As I already received the Train Ticket Pickup Code. But, I need Alipay just for backup.
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identity verification shows "unverified". no, when i said hk data sim i meant i got it while still in msia becos you need a data line to make this ewallet works. btw, i used alipay for hotel accommodation, at shopping centers, supermarkets, convenient stores, kaki lima petty traders. basically 99% of the spending in china i used alipay other than some angpao i gave to china relative in kampung area i used rmb cash. i add rmb1000 while still in msia to the tourpass and made another 2 top up while in china. it all worked perfectly, no error message.
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QUOTE(hhkong @ Dec 5 2019, 06:52 AM)
identity verification shows "unverified". no, when i said hk data sim i meant i got it while still in msia becos you need a data line to make this ewallet works. btw, i used alipay for hotel accommodation, at shopping centers, supermarkets, convenient stores, kaki lima petty traders. basically 99% of the spending in china i used alipay other than some angpao i gave to china relative in kampung area i used rmb cash. i add rmb1000 while still in msia to the tourpass and  made another 2 top up while in china. it all worked perfectly, no error message.
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Thanks for the info! Good to hear that it can be used at most of the places. I guess my Wechat pay should be almost the same. Maybe there will be a slightly fee. My Alipay still not working. I almost give up on Alipay. I have some paper CNY cash, just for backup in case I really need it.
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QUOTE(mobileoop @ Dec 5 2019, 09:49 AM)
Thanks for the info! Good to hear that it can be used at most of the places. I guess my Wechat pay should be almost the same. Maybe there will be a slightly fee. My Alipay still not working. I almost give up on Alipay. I have some paper CNY cash, just for backup in case I really need it.
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bring a credit card just for emergency purpose. most 4 star hotels, shopping centers and supermarket accept credit cards for payment...
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QUOTE(mobileoop @ Dec 3 2019, 07:35 PM)
Just want to share my experience.

I will be going to China end of this month. For the last 1 week+, I have been trying to register for Wechat Pay and AliPay. I tried a few of my cards on AliPay (TourPass), all of them have been unsuccessful. I received the error related to "High Risk Card...". Then, yesterday afternoon I was messing with the chat bot inside Alipay app. I even typed some curse word like "F*ck you". lol. I didn't know what I did and it was transferred to a real support staff. After chatting, she said someone will call me tomorrow (which is today). I received the call about 2 hours ago. She said there will be an email send to me, and I will need to submit My passport and also the photo of my credit card. I just did that. And hopefully there will be a good news for  the next few days.

Last night, I was playing with the Wechat Pay as well. I selected the region as "China". I was successfully Added my Visa Card there! I tried to top up to the WeChat Pay balance, all my cards will show errors. I believe it only allows top up balance using a China bank card. There is a page which is used to verify my real name identity, I tried to click everywhere, but there is no way for me to submit my passport. So right now, my Wechat Pay account is still NOT verified.

Just now, I tried to purchase the train ticket via "Rail & Flights" inside the Wechat Pay. The first time it failed. The 2nd time, It was successful! I receive the email "Thank you for your using Travelgo.com. You reservation has been submitted.Travelgo.com will attempt to reserve this ticket for you and purchase it automatically when the pre-sale period has begun."

I compare the train ticket price on wechat pay vs trip.com, it is CNY 20 more expensive than trip.com. Anyway, I just wanted to try to see if wechat pay actually works. And it did!

I will know for sure if works when I see my online credit card statement for the next few days.
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tourpass is good. top up rmb with debit card. no issues. payment is less than 2 seconds
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QUOTE(hhkong @ Dec 5 2019, 10:16 AM)
bring a credit card just for emergency purpose. most 4 star hotels, shopping centers and supermarket accept credit cards for payment...
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Yes, definitely will bring credit card too.
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QUOTE(Jay Chua CC @ Dec 5 2019, 02:12 PM)
tourpass is good. top up rmb with debit card. no issues. payment is less than 2 seconds
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I have been trying so hard to get the Alipay tourpass. But, still it failed to load the fund.
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FYI, I just came back from China. My WeChat pay is garbage. Can not be used anywhere else. I only successfully purchased a train ticker using a travel app inside WeChat. I can't even use it on Didi e-hailing inside the WeChat! I can link the Wechat Pay to Ctrip but I also can not use it to purchase the one day trip tickets!

Wasting so much time in setting up wechat pay and alipay, at last the hard cool paper money is the most reliable. I already cancelled my wechat pay and alipay account!
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QUOTE(hhkong @ Dec 5 2019, 06:52 AM)
identity verification shows "unverified". no, when i said hk data sim i meant i got it while still in msia becos you need a data line to make this ewallet works. btw, i used alipay for hotel accommodation, at shopping centers, supermarkets, convenient stores, kaki lima petty traders. basically 99% of the spending in china i used alipay other than some angpao i gave to china relative in kampung area i used rmb cash. i add rmb1000 while still in msia to the tourpass and  made another 2 top up while in china. it all worked perfectly, no error message.
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where to get hk sim card in msia?
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QUOTE(tvcat @ Jan 4 2020, 10:16 PM)
where to get hk sim card in msia?
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just type china sim and search at shopee...
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QUOTE(hhkong @ Jan 15 2020, 10:23 AM)
just type china sim and search at shopee...
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i see, thanks bro
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QUOTE(SuperTuhan @ Nov 30 2019, 09:23 AM)
Guys, I had rmb in my wechat wallet
And Ytd I tried to transfer out but failed due to I am not registered with any debit/credit cards from China

Anyone got solutions to this?

I am in Malaysia, can I use any Malaysia banks card that are recognised by wechat?

This is a recent rule, early of this year I still can transfer in and out

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It’s because of your initial region restrictions when the money in into your wallet. You only can transfer to your chinese friend through wechat. You can’t use malaysian bank card to withdraw your RMB if your initial registration was mainland. You have to use chinese/local bank account to withdraw.
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QUOTE(mobileoop @ Jan 4 2020, 12:00 PM)
FYI, I just came back from China. My WeChat pay is garbage. Can not be used anywhere else. I only successfully purchased a train ticker using a travel app inside WeChat. I can't even use it on Didi e-hailing inside the WeChat! I can link the Wechat Pay to Ctrip but I also can not use it to purchase the one day trip tickets!

Wasting so much time in setting up wechat pay and alipay, at last the hard cool paper money is the most reliable. I already cancelled my wechat pay and alipay account!
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didi e-hailing does not even need a local e-wallet. i am using mastercard for didi.. it's working fine and comes with discount too.

 

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