PayPal: Were sorry. Were not able to complete personal payments to account holders in India at this time.

"Were sorry. Were not able to complete personal payments to account holders in India at this time."

That is what PayPal.com says to my clients who are trying to send me a payments for my services. This first cropped up yesterday, 4th Sept 2013. I haven't been expecting any payments before that, so I am not sure how long this has been going on. But this again happened with another client about 30 minutes ago.

There is just one reference to this problem being faced by Indian receivers for the last one month. But no particular solution is mentioned on that page. It was reported on Aug 17, and can be seen here.

I guess I should be sending an email to PayPal. Will report the results soon.

Oh, in another news, the latest policy update mentions that PayPal is increasing international fees for India from 3.9% to 4.4% plus fixed fee, from September 10, 2013. If you know any other payment processor that I can use instead of PayPal.com, please let me know!

List of the best Content Writing Sites for Freelance Writers

It has been a while since I made a list of the best content writing sites for writers ( and clients), so I was inspired to make this post by a question that was asked at Yahoo Answers. The question was, "Apart from textbroker, what are the best content writing sites?"

For almost all of the following sites, the writer has to create an account, and write a sample so they can be vetted. Once you have shown that you can write at a particular level, you are allowed to pick up 


Writer Access

The Content Authority

Textbroker.co.uk

Textbroker.com

Writer.com, through mturk

Mturk