Paypal Fees ??

doingwhatican

I recieve a few transactions a week via paypal, they are mostly for 1.99 and I get charged 27 pence and every 4th one is 28 pence. I suppose this is them rounding up the 10ths of pennies. I also sell the odd higher value item ( several hundred pounds ) and can often get fees of £12 or more for accepting payment via paypal. Yesterday I had a buyer from germany who paid via paypal and the fee was only £3.50 on the tranaction of well over £400. How do they calculate that? This has me quite confused - not that I am complaining.

Also of late, I have had a few people buy my high value items and pay by paypal only to not have a confirmed address. I have refund the payment and asked them to make the payment another way - all but one have been happy to make other arrangements. Has anyone else been having this sort of problem lately.

bleugh

yeah, i have a lot of non-confirmed addresses, i'm happy to ship items < about 30 quid this way mind,

i'll never ship an expensive item tho

https://www.bleugh.co.uk/paypal

one thing to watch out for, my brother has just sold a laptop, the paypal transaction says 'ineligble for seller protection' even though the buyers address is verified,

clairehas

these paypal fees annoy me! us british have to pay for everything!

when i set up my paypal account i didnt realise that i had to pay to transfer the money into my bank account ( 25p for under 50 quid )

How come its free in the usa?

Its so unfair lol

jenniferpa

clairehas wrote:

How come its free in the usa?

Its so unfair lol

It's not entirely free. True, you don't pay a withdrawal fee but in some ways it's worse - if you make a claim through paypal you always pay a $15 handling charge even if the item wan't purchased through ebay. You also pay to receive credit/debit card payments.