Purchasing in dollars - mastercard or paypal

grumbler

Atidi wrote: »

Paypal make no charge for purchases as long as you buy in the original sales currency.

It does if your account is in £ and "the original sales currency" isn't £. Do you mean 'pay', not 'buy'?

(Never let paypal convert the currency; their rates/charges are abysmal)

Who will convert the currency then if your account is in £ and the price is, say, in $ only? Indeed, the charges are abysmal.

You will be charged the same fees by mastercard whether you purchase directly using the card, or via paypal with them.

No, several CCs in UK don't charge anything for currency conversion.

Did you bother to read the thread before posting this nonsensical reply?

anon_ymous

dzug1 wrote: »

Surely getting $1.61 for your £ is better than getting $1.57??

1.62 was the mid market rate yesterday according to xe.com

Yup. I was just showing the Mastercard and PayPal rates

reclusive46

PayPals exchange rates are abysmal.

MasterCard and American Express (apart from the Euro for Amex) usually have the best rates for currencies. I have all 3 card networks with no foreign transaction fees and varies between currency. I was recently in Thailand and Amex had by far the best exchange rate while I was there. I withdrew cash on my FlexPlus and got 1.75 baht less than my Amex per £1.

Atidi

grumbler wrote: »

It does if your account is in £ and "the original sales currency" isn't £. Do you mean 'pay', not 'buy'?

Who will convert the currency then if your account is in £ and the price is, say, in $ only? Indeed, the charges are abysmal.

No, several CCs in UK don't charge anything for currency conversion.

Did you bother to read the thread before posting this nonsensical reply?

I'm not sure about you, but when I buy something I usually am the one who pays for it.

Or put another way, I only pay for things I buy.

I suggest you bother to read my post properly before posting such a nonsensical retort. :cool:

grumbler

Atidi wrote: »

I'm not sure about you, but when I buy something I usually am the one who pays for it.

Personally I usually buy something and pay in some currency for this.

I never buy in any currency, but probably it's just me.

In fact, "to buy in currency" in business jargon means "to buy currency", not to pay in currency for something.

And why have you not commented on the rest of my 'nonsensual' post where questions more serious than linguistics/semantics were asked about your 'sensual' post?