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by chrononaut 8 days ago
Sorry, I am not familiar with Alipay, at least in the use case you're referring to; How do you exactly pay for 2 servers using Alipay from a CVS?
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mystraline 8 days ago
I can load US dollars I hand over to the CVS attendant and load it on my AliPay (Alibaba account).

I can then pay my Alibaba server bills with Alipay.

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nixon_why69 8 days ago
Why not just go directly from a credit card to alipay? Does that not work when physically outside of China?
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DANmode 8 days ago
Is there an intermediary?

The cash doesn’t go directly from CVS to AliPay, right?

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nemomarx 8 days ago
CVS also accepts alipay as a payment method, so they must have some kind of direct partnership. I don't see why they'd need an intermediary, although maybe they take the cash and just credit alipay some balance etc.
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DANmode 8 days ago
Super interesting and unexpected!

Thanks (to all!).

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