eBillme
This week I got to try a relatively new service called eBillme. eBillme is a service that lets you pay for online shopping purchases using your bank account. This is the ideal type of service for people that don’t have a credit card. It’s free to use and easy to set up. I decided to give it a test drive on an order I was placing with TigerDirect so I could see what it was all about.
As we discovered on our weekend in Wildwood, it’d be quite useful to have a pair of earphones to use on the laptop when trying to watch a movie in a less than quiet room. I placed three items in my cart and chose the eBillme option at checkout. A screen appeared asking me to confirm that I used online banking, understood I had to pay for my order and that it would take 1-3 days for my bank to process the payment. I was then given an order confirmation screen and instructions on how to set up eBillme in my online banking. I then logged into my bank, as usual, and paid eBillme the amount due on my order. That’s it. It was very easy to use. If you don’t have a credit card this might be an option you want to consider next time you shop online. Right now it looks like it’s accepted at 15 different well known sites and I’d guess there’ll be more added as the service gains recognition.
