Eugene of Vista Pinas shares his own personal experience of claiming AdSense payments through Western Union. Our hero shared the AdSense-Western Union stories of others, then decided to try things out for himself. “Receiving the payment is actually as easy as others have said it would be—it just took me about five minutes—but finding an open Western Union outlet is another story altogether.”

The intrepid blogger, the man behind Lakbayan, finally found salvation at a local hotel, taking advantage of the fact that remittance centers there stay open longer to service foreign guests. He then realized that it was better to receive his payments in dollars, then look for a nearby forex, as “Western Union’s peso-dollar exchange rate seems to be always lower than the market value.” Here’s to your entertaining—and realistic—assessment of the procedure Eugene!