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Finally you can pay for your air tickets with your foreign credit card on Ctrip

And you thought they'd never get to it! Ctrip.com is now looking a lot more like a dot.com because you can now finally pay for that ticket you booked online via Paypal and with your foreign credit card. As far as we can remember, the last time we tried to... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Mon, Aug 04 2008

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