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Title: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: kdw712 on November 06, 2008, 12:24 PM
sold a F&F to a fella in Ireland

and if i get paid as a purchase (ignore gift for now)
i have to factor in

3.9% cross border
&
2.5% currencey exchange (euros to lovely ££££'s)

6.4% of the total to paypal

have i got that right ?   :shocked:



and

how do i find out what exchange rates they use ?

is it as per www.xe.com or some special paypal rate ...........  :-\
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: Voodoocars on November 06, 2008, 12:32 PM
Dont know about that but I do know that paypal is a load of saggy boll@cks
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: phantom photon on November 06, 2008, 12:34 PM
Paypal make it up as they go along I think  :LolLolLolLol:

I recently sold a complete skyway on ebay. The paypal fees together with the ebay fees came to over £150 for basically feck all work on their part :tickedoff:
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: kdw712 on November 06, 2008, 12:43 PM
Paypal make it up as they go along I think  :LolLolLolLol:

I recently sold a complete skyway on ebay. The paypal fees together with the ebay fees came to over £150 for basically feck all work on their part :tickedoff:

holy feckin cack  :shocked:
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: snav69 on November 06, 2008, 12:47 PM
sold a F&F to a fella in Ireland

and if i get paid as a purchase (ignore gift for now)
i have to factor in

3.9% cross border
&
2.5% currencey exchange (euros to lovely ££££'s)

6.4% of the total to paypal

have i got that right ?   :shocked:



and

how do i find out what exchange rates they use ?

is it as per www.xe.com or some special paypal rate ...........  :-\

I think thats right but you forgot the 20p that they add on for using the service  >:(

http://ppcalc.com/

 :coolsmiley:
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: kdw712 on November 06, 2008, 01:14 PM
cheers mr snav  :daumenhoch:

from that link there was another to the offical PP exchange rates thingy

think i'm there now

thanks all  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: Timmeh on November 07, 2008, 12:38 PM
Dont know about that but I do know that paypal is a load of saggy boll@cks

Seen tons of stuff on fleaBay that I wanted but refuse to use 'PayTheif'; tax evading, responsibility shrugging, law-dodging bandits. 

Shylots and fops and very, very saggy.
Title: Re: help understanding paypal fees
Post by: ed_whiteley on November 07, 2008, 07:44 PM
i definitely agree that they make it up as they go along, every time i look at myebay, the fees i owe seem to have gone up a few quid ??? ;D
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