Can Morbie Be the Answer to Your Family’s Needs?

Understand what the website Morbie.com can offer to OFW families that makes it so important to know for them and how its services work.

If you belong to an OFW family and you need a way to top up each other’s cell phones without having to cross oceans to do it, you should take a gander at Morbie.com. This website, which some say was set up specifically for OFW needs, offers users the ability to buy cell phone credits for Philippine cell phone subscribers even if they live half a world away.

The site uses today’s e-commerce technologies to achieve that feat. OFWs simply go online and visit the Morbie site, then take a look at the site’s offered load values—all of which, by the way, are useable with Philippine networks, e.g. Smart, Globe, Sun Cellular, etc. The values are listed in ascending order and correspond to cell phone credits that can be consumed for talk or text hours: 50 PHP, for instance, yields 50 pesos worth of call time or text messages.

The cost of these credits is a little higher than the actual stated value, of course. The site has to be paid for its service, after all. 50 PHP of credits, for instance, is sold for $2.50. While some might be wary of the added cost in the Philippines, the fact is that the site caters mainly to Filipinos abroad sending e-load back home—and Filipinos abroad generally have far higher wages than in the Philippines. Using the site in many situations can also be much cheaper than the common alternative, which would be to brave money transfer fees and slow speeds just to send money for buying e-load to the relatives back home. Convenience typically has a price, and in this case, most people in the know will agree that it’s a small cost considering the alternative.

With Morbie.com, many OFW families will no longer have to wait for ages just to be able to send load to Philippines (or receive, for that matter) load to (or from) their loved ones. The site cuts down on the number of steps and amount of effort needed just so families with members living overseas can stay in touch with each other constantly.