Dot-Puff Series: Another payment innovation

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I’m calling this the Dot-Puff series to keep writing about companies trying to ignite online businesses focused on PK.

This one is iShop, something Mohtashim wrote about recently. Their solution to Pakistan’s net payment challlenge is simple: Choose your PC online; Do a bank-transfer to the account they give; When the money is received they ship the PC.

Ofcourse, this adds a 5-day stretch over which you “order” online. Alas credit card payments. On the other hand, shipping in Pakistan is quick, so you may have to wait the same amount of time as the US to get your online purchase.

The only question left is how much consumers will trust them after sending the payment, but trust levels are getting better day-by-day.

Go puff Go.

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Tags: Dotpuff, iShop, MyShop, PakStartup

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Asim Zafar Said:
May 9th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Assalam Alaikum,

I’m working as QA Group Manager at Mentor Graphics and am a close friends of the founders (two brothers, Usman and Nadeem) of myshop (previously known as ishop).

Those guys are very professional and quite honest mashaAllah, all the readers should be confident when doing a transaction with them.

And I dont have any shares in their business, its just an honest opinion

Take Care,
-Asim Zafar