PayPal fee & strange breakdown of bill

JustAnotherSaver

Ok it's not an eBay sale but i couldn't find anywhere to post this and since PayPal and eBay often go hand-in-hand that's why i'm here.


I recently bought something online. I tried to pay via card which for some reason wouldn't work so i paid via PayPal.


I'm looking at the bill now...


Purchase total £27.71 GBP
VAT £6.48 GBP
Postage £4.17 GBP
Packaging & Insurance ... £0
Gross amount £38.36
PayPal fee -£1.31
Net amount £37.05


So i was thinking oh i must've paid £37.05 after getting a bit of PayPal discount. I'd never heard of it before, i never saw it mentioned on the site but i can't knock a bit of discount so happy days.


Log in to my PayPal and i was charged £38.36.


Now i'm not complaining that i was charged this amount as at the end of the day A) it's only £1.31 and i expected to pay the full £38.36 anyway.


The reason i'm here is to try understand what this whole 'PayPal fee' of -£1.31 is, why it's there, how it brought the net down but i paid the gross as that doesn't make sense to me.


Someone please explain....

mrcol1000

The £1.31 is the fee the seller of the item had to pay PayPal. Is the bill from the seller? It seems a bit odd telling you how much they got from the sale after PayPal fees.

JustAnotherSaver

The receipt looks like it might be a PayPal transaction receipt. There's no heading to it though.