Comments on: Maybank’s Debit Card Catches Up

By: adhwa

adhwa — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:45:39 +0000

someone please tell me how i could put my money into paypal. i already have maybank debit card, but there is no proper guideline to top up my paypal account by my debit card. pleasee someoneee

By: 1Earth

1Earth — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:55:37 +0000

In my experience you don’t pay for buying stuff with your card. They just charge SGD to your account, Maybank converts it – bam, transaction complete.

Because it’s a debit card, they do put a block for slightly more than what you’re purchasing on your card. This is just so you don’t go out and empty your account immediately after you purchase something – but the block is released / refunded, once the purchase has gone through.

But that’s the whole beauty of the debit card – plastic cash, literally. You don’t have to have physical money, but you can’t spend what you don’t have either.

If you card doesn’t work, contact Maybank and have them enable it for overseas transactions – you need to do that at least once.

By: Y

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:22:20 +0000

Hi, I was wondering and tried looking through the net but couldn’t really find the answer.
I’m a malaysia but now in Singapore.
If i were to use my Maybank debit card when purchasing items over the counter, how much will I be charged?
Cuz it’s quite troublesome to use the ATM machines to withdraw cash.