What is PayPal's Expanded Use Number? at Saturday, July 12, 2008

After getting your Unionbank EON card, you have to add it to your PayPal account. Some people think that just by adding this, they can now access their PayPal balance and make withdrawals. Truth is there is one final step before getting your blog's earnings. It's called the Expanded Use Process.

Simply put, it's a way for PayPal to verify ownership of the card added onto the system. We all know there are tons of people out there who use other people's credit card information online. As a precaution, PayPal does this verification.

Here are the steps to complete this:

1. Add your Credit card

2. PayPal will prompt you to verify your card through the Expanded Use Process

3. PayPal will charge your card $1.95 as authorization. This will be refunded to your PayPal balance within 24 hours from the time you confirm the card.

4. The $1.95 charge will appear on your card as well as a 4-digit Expanded Use Number which would appear as EXPUSE*XXXX. Normally, it takes 3-5 business days for this to appear on the card statement but those who have access online may be able to see it right away.

5. After obtaining the 4-digit code, log in to your PayPal account. Go to PROFILE --> ADD/EDIT CREDIT CARD.


5. Click on ENTER PAYPAL CODE. Then enter the Expanded Use Number. You will receive a confirmation message if the code is correct.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

DO NOT attempt to guess or put an incorrect Expanded Use Number as it will completely block your card in the PayPal system.

Hope this helps. For questions, post a comment.

Finally - My EON Card has arrived! at Thursday, July 10, 2008

For those who want to know more about PayPal, please google them or go to their site. A lot has been said about PayPal. All I can say is, it's safe and it works! I can't tell you how happy I was when I found out that PayPal would be launching a Philippine site. I didn't sign up right away when it was launched. I just found out from my editor at the Inquirer (through her personal blog) that PayPal has indeed reached Philippine shores.

Bank accounts/debit/credit cards from major bank accounts can now be added to your PayPal account. I will list the bank codes of most Philippine banks. What most bloggers recommend is the Unionbank cyberaccount called EON. Everything is done online (except the application) and I heard that transferring money to the EON account is faster than most banks. I will have to put that to the test though.

Getting an EON card is supposed to be VERY easy. They used to allow online application but recently, they stopped doing that. So I had to go to the nearest Unionbank branch. I filled out a form, gave a photocopy of two government-issued IDs and was asked to wait for 3-5 business days.

Tick tock. Three weeks have passed but still no EON card. I called them each week and the bitch who always answers the phone said there seems to be a delay and so I really have to wait. Fine. I'm okay with waiting. I understand that there might be a lot of people who are also trying to get one. I was pissed when I received a letter in the mail (dated June 26) saying 'Welcome and Thank you for being a new patron" -something like that. If their system prompted them to send me a letter, then definitely my cyberaccount is already existent.

I called them up to follow-up and it was again the same bitch who, not only was not helpful, she also talked over me and almost hung up on me. I called their head office to file a ticket for this missing EON card. Within 24 hours, the card mysteriously appeared on the phase of the Earth. I was asked to go to the same branch to get the card.

I paid 350Pesos for the annual fee. The card is finally here:

I've signed up for the online cyber account. Now all I need to do is to wait for confirmation (which will take 2 business days) and I can finally withdraw my first batch of earnings. YES! my first PayPal withdrawal! I can't wait!

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PayPal Earnings Report 8 July 2008 at Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Since this is my online journal about making money online, I figured I should have an honest and accurate report on my earnings. Hence, I will start this PayPal Earnings Report this month. To track my earnings, I keep an excel sheet so I will know who paid me, when I'm going to get paid, who hasn't paid yet and how much I've earned from each program I signed up for.

As you can see, my biggest money-making engine is Blogvertise. In fact, I received three payments from them today alone. I am expecting more. To date, I've made almost 400USD and that from writing the first sponsored content in May. I earned my first payment through PayPal the following month.

SocialSpark is my second biggest money-making engine. The reason why I haven't written about it is because I decided to write about these money-making sites once they've paid me through PayPal. Until then, you can read my other post about SocialSpark and IZEA on Boink.

HITS4PAY: Read Emails, Get Paid! at Tuesday, July 08, 2008

When I first heard about getting paid to read emails, I thought it's ludicrous! Who pays to read emails! I looked at my [old] email account with tons of spam emails and said who would pay me to read all of these? Apparently, someone does.

Hits4Pay is one of the legit sites which pay us to read emails. They'll even give you a $10USD sign up bonus! They have a minimum payout requirement of $25USD and they pay through PayPal. The way it works is they'll send you a notification saying you've got mail. When you click on the link, it will redirect you to their site where you need to log into your account and click on some ads. It takes only 30 seconds before they credit $0.02 (US) to your account.

There you go again... Did I just hear you say 2 cents is too freaking small for you? Well, think of it this way: you get to do whatever you want in your life, blog about your life or about any of the opps displayed on PayPerPost, Blogvertise, ReviewMe, or SocialSpark AND you can still have this. It's still another way to earn a few bucks.

Sign up HERE.

First: A Disclaimer at Saturday, June 21, 2008

Hi, my name is Pika. I've been blogging since 2000. I've used other blogging formats like livejournal, blogger, bravejournal, easyjournal, even wordpress. Over the years, I've abandoned my other journals and focused on only two. This will be my 3rd 'active' journal and it is here that I will share my money-making adventure online: the search for the golden nugget.

I'd like to begin with a disclaimer: like I said, I am sharing MY own experience. It'll be great if you'll learn from any of the posts but let me tell you that I'm also new to this kind of business. I don't want to call myself an expert but let's just say I've already earned my first dollar (wink wink) and so I'd like to share how I got my second, third and nth.

My other blogs are BoobooStrider and Boink. Feel free to visit these blogs while I begin writing my posts for this blog.

As for the sponsors you see on this blog, I will talk about each and every one of them really soon.