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Offline MRieck

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PayPal and international charges
« on: February 13, 2010, 08:37:24 AM »
Do people know they grab 4.2% for international transfers? Doesn't sound like much until you get into thousands of dollars. Bastards.
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Re: PayPal and international charges
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 09:29:08 AM »
Yep thieving bunch of swines - owned by eBay now though so what do you expect really....you pay to list, you pay on final value, you pay to receive money and you pay to take it out. Like shooting fish in a barrel but what is the alternative for us the poor consumer...?  ???
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Offline cb750k7

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Re: PayPal and international charges
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2010, 09:47:24 AM »
I have encountered this yesterday while sending money to HONDAMAN for his book. ???

After logging into PAYPAL,  use the "SEND MONEY" tab and select the "ONLINE PURCHASES" tab.
If you will choose the "PERSONAL PURCHASES" TAB,  THE &#%#^#^ will add the extra money!

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Offline voxonda

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Re: PayPal and international charges
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2010, 10:52:49 AM »
Yep, know all about it! Nowadays you're charged for nearly everything.

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Re: PayPal and international charges
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2010, 02:34:11 AM »
It cost nothing to transfer money from one account to another electonically within your own banking groupe but when it comes to transffering from one bank to another there will allways be a charge.
Nobody works for nothing and you can't expect them to but putting the charge up depending on the amount is robbery.
Another thing that bothers me is who pays for the transaction. This has happened to Mike on a few occasions and did also when I transffered money into his account.
The buyer or the person transffering the money should be responsibble for paying the cost but with paypal, the option as to who pays it don't allways come up. This lead to Mike being $23 out of pocket when I transffered money into his account to get my bike shipped from Atlanta to him. As it happend I was with him when this took place and put the matter straight but I wonder if I have sent money to people and they have copped for the charges and not liked to say anything as it was only a small amount, small amounts add up and over a period of time can add up to a lot.
Why dose the option not allways show and how can it be rectified?

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Re: PayPal and international charges
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2010, 06:03:17 AM »
Yes happened to me getting money from Japan - $11 charge for getting $280  :-\. Still beats the $35 charge that Bank of America charges for sending money overseas...

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