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This is a no-brainer for every traveler!

Sign up for a free PayPal account, confirm a bank account, collect your $5, and you are set up to send and receive money via email for free. Say goodbye to hunting down and waiting in line at a Western Union, goodbye to waiting days and days to receive a money transfer, and goodbye to paying their exorbitant fees.

Once again, the Internet sets you free. What once was an onerous task, PayPal has simplified into a process no more difficult than sending an email. Even better, they've made it free and completely secure.

Sign-up now

How does it work?

PayPal, with over 4 million users, is the most popular online form of payment at eBay. It operates as a sort of central bank. Users take a few minutes to set up an account and then tie that account to a credit card and/or a bank account. From there on out, all transactions are done using an email address - credit card numbers and bank account numbers are held by PayPal and never seen or used by either party during a transaction. This makes it safe to just use basic email to complete transactions.

The sender must confirm every payment by entering their password at the PayPal site. You don't need to even have any money in your PayPal account to pay someone. It will charge your credit card if you like. The recipient doesn't have to do anything. They are simply notified that money just got deposited into their account, which they can sweep into their bank account at will. And it doesn't cost either party one cent.

Merchants can use PayPal also. In fact it allows anyone to accept credit cards without ever qualifying for and setting up a merchant account AND it's cheaper (a 1.9% transaction fee versus the 2.5% up to 4% fee that most merchants pay on credit card transactions). What's more, it allows a PayPal enabled merchant to accept electronic payments from individuals that don't have or can't get a credit card.

It's slick as snot! This is definitely the future of payments on the Internet and perhaps the future of money.

What does this mean for a world traveler?
the short version (click for details)

• Your parents can email you money when you run out
• Easily split bills with and pay back traveling buddies while on the road
• Send money via email to friends that don't even have a PayPal account
• Sell anything to anyone online and they can pay you instantly
• Book a bed and pay a hostel for your accommodations remotely

… and it doesn't cost you a dime!

Sign-up now and you'll get Five Bucks!

Show us a little love by supporting WiseNomad.com. Sign up through one of the links one this page and PayPal will pay WiseNomad.com five bucks for referring you, which we're more than happy to do because this truly is a great service for travelers.