Well, it might depend on the amount or the store. This is with my debit card. At the supermarket, whether Emart or HomePlus, a screen comes up asking if I want to pay lump sum, or 2-, 3-, 4- months, etc.I go to the pharmacist for refills every six months, and he asks if I want to pay lump sum or other. But if I buy 4 for 11,000 W at CU, it never comes up.
In China we pay for everything using our phones. I haven't swiped a card here in years.
Much easier for the government to track you that way. Can even the little convenience stores--the one that use quilted blankets for doors in the winter--do this?
Tax evasion is huge in China. Electronic payment systems ensure peoplepay their fair share of taxes. Korea used to be the same. Now that thegovernment has more money the services they supply are much better.
Is that down to the the payment processor? Or is it the the storefront, the ISP, the courier company or customs who flagged him? I wouldn't try to buy drugs via Kakaopay either.
Not saying Wechat/tencent are worthy of blind trust, but they don't exist to make you pay taxes or track you. You just have to watch your step and be sensible in certain countries.
I still wouldn't put a lot of trust in these apps. I know a guy who got hauled into the police station and drug tested, allegedly because he used Taobao to buy marijuana paraphernalia. I don't know if that was the real reason or if it's just what he told us because the real story was more embarrassing, but he tested positive and spent two weeks in jail. I guess the moral of the story is don't use it to pay the weed man.
Interesting, I haven't been there since Covid (obviously) so this is news to me. We used QR codes via Naver and Kakao for tracing so it isn't dissimilar (also turned out to be useless once case numbers really ramped up). Paying taxes via a government portal is also pretty standard. Where do you download said apps from? Is it from a reliable storefront that would check apps for backdoors/malware, or do you download directly from websites?
Pretty dumb to buy that stuff in Asia. Or even bring it in with you. Many countries are hard core against that stuff. Just look at the basketball player who went to Russia.
Rollies? Is that some new slang for papers? Why do that if you're in a big city? Just go to a tobacco store and buy a box of papers.
Or considering the fact that you already live in China, you could probably find uber-thin rice paper somewhere that you say you need for cooking or paper art or whatever and just take it home and cut it up.
Of course, drugs make you stupid, so this person 1) Probably didn't think but just felt when it came to doing all of this 2) Thinks "There's only one REAL brand of papers mannnnnn" 3) Is mystified that looking and dressing like a person who does drugs causes people to think he does drugs, when he actually does drugs 4) Probably so focused on drugs, he didn't notice where he was.
