天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

Excuse me? How?

After a bit back and forth with the bank, they called me just a moment ago and said they will "try their best" to clear my transfer on Sunday.

Let's see how best they can try.

Now the question is: Do I take the risk of losing my money for faster transfer?

Wait... I just found out a less secure but faster way to get money back to China.

With Wise and Alipay, I can send money to Wise from OCBC, then covert it to CNY, when send it to Alipay and then send it to my bank.

Apparently it's not from bank to bank so if someone (like wise or alipay) decide to suspend my transfer, it will be a hard time to get my money back.

But I did a quick test: Send 25 CNY buy only got 9, wise take 16 CNY as a fee. It only takes less than 10 minutes!

@freemo If you’re circulating Money inside China, in most of the cases, they're realtime.

But when involving foreign currencies, you need all kind of approvals :(

@freemo Thanks. It's not the end of the world, so I can wait until Monday. Frankly speaking, I can tell that customer support don't often get this kind of request since they kinda of don't know what to do when I asked them. Which means I might need to go to the bank and sort things out, if the teller don't know how to process the transfer.

LOL

(Found this picture on the internet)

For those who don't know, just watch Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

BTW I'm angry becuase I have a pretty tight schedule for purchasing a new bird watching monocular and go outside this weekend. Now I need to wait the bank to process my transfer on Monday so I have to delay my schedule for a week. And the weather report said next weekend will be wet.

Maybe it's my fault to have a really tight schedule, but in any case, I have to wait until Monday. And hopefully they don't reject my transfer.

@freemo Great, you sounds like an excellent banker now🤣

In my humble opinion, if you want to follow the international holidays, then you should work on Friday. Or if you want to follow the Chinese holidays, then process my f*ucking transfer on Sunday.

You can't take both holidays and just told me to wait. It's stupid.

Haha, those f*cking stupid banks.

I got my salary send to OCBC, a Singapore bank. They have no issues on processing my money. Then I want to transfer part of it to Chinese bank for my daily living.

The OCBC said the transfer is successful. But ICBC didn't put the money into my account. So I asked ICBC's customer support. And here is the hilarious thing, which I'm so angry that I don't even feel angry, just feel very amusing.

To start off, there is a thing called "leave in lieu". April 4th to 6th is QingMing festival (or you can call it "Tomb-Sweeping Day"). The issue is: Only the April 4th is QingMing, 5th is friday and you should work. But the government want to setup a 3 day holiday, so they arranged holiday from 4th to 6th, then you work on 7th (Sunday). April 6th is Saturday, and you work on Sunday to compensate Friday.

Then let's talk about the bank, ICBC. I asked why I didn't get the money, the customer servicer said they don't know. I give them the reference number of that SWIFT transfer, but they said they can't query for me. I have to ask the local branch. So I asked the local branch. The branch said they're not working on public holidays. So I asked what about Sunday. They said Sunday is also a day off, since it's a international weekend. They need to work on Sunday, but they can't process the transfer on Sunday. I have to wait on Monday.

WTF

Guess what? I forgot to proxy DNS.

It's always DNS.

Sometimes I really want to hire someone to fix this sh*t for me.

Kinda Chinese-only problem. Possibly related to the proxy I used, but never figured out why.