Project log 1

This is a project log on the progress of an electric bicycle project I have decided to embarked on.

First, I have purchase the equipments and tools for the project. I have found and online site in Taiwan that sells a complete kit set for my project. It should be simple enough as the kit is complete with everything I needed to turn a normal mountain bike to an electric driven bicycle. Albeit I have read that the batteries that come with the kit might not be the best in the market, but since this is my first attempt on such a project, I have decided that I would stick to the original kit battery and test it out first.

The first attempt in purchasing the complete kit bought me to Paypal. I used to have a paypal account some years back, but since I seldom made online purchasing via paypal, I have forgotten how to log in to my old Paypal account.

So, I registered a new account and to my surprise I could now linked my credit card to Paypal, so instead of buying credits in Paypal first I could now charge any purchase made via Paypal to my credit card. Sweet! This means I would no longer need to keep some money in Paypal for future purchase.

However, for security reason, Paypal imposed a limit on my credit card transaction until I have confirmed with Paypal that the credit card really belongs to me. And in order for me to do that I have to wait for the credit card statement as Paypal will charge a small amount of money in my credit card and provide an activation number with the charges. This way, the activation number would appear in my credit card statement together with the charges made by Paypal. On it's activation website, Paypal promised to refund the money after I have confirmed the card.

That's not bad, the only problem I have with such a set up is that I will not be able to satisfy my gratification of actually buying the things I want to buy now as the total purchase cost is beyond the limit set by Paypal now. I'll have to wait for my credit card statement before I could made my purchase. Sigh.