Sorry, I am not familiar with Alipay, at least in the use case you're referring to; How do you exactly pay for 2 servers using Alipay from a CVS?

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mystraline 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I can load US dollars I hand over to the CVS attendant and load it on my AliPay (Alibaba account).

I can then pay my Alibaba server bills with Alipay.

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DANmode 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Is there an intermediary?

The cash doesn’t go directly from CVS to AliPay, right?

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nemomarx 6 hours ago | parent [-]

CVS also accepts alipay as a payment method, so they must have some kind of direct partnership. I don't see why they'd need an intermediary, although maybe they take the cash and just credit alipay some balance etc.

	▲	DANmode 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Super interesting and unexpected! Thanks (to all!).