Author:  rankster  Posted:  May 14, 2024 06:36  Subject:  Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee  Viewed:  53 times  Topic:  Selling Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card rankster (1927) Location:  Austria, Wien Member Since Contact Type Status Aug 23, 2019 Seller Store: Rankster Bricks

In Selling, 1001bricks writes:    Say you've a 5% PayPal or payment fee (on order total only), but then you've to pay in a specific currency (HUF?) then it's another 5% but on the whole (including fees AND shipping). This another 5% currency conversation fee could be saved by paying with your card instead of using PayPal's awful exchange rate. I have a Wise card which is added to my PP account and if I need to pay in any other currency than EUR, the card issuer's rate will be used and Wise charges way less than 5% for conversation. An example: I paid at a Hungarian gas station 16070 HUF which equaled 41,23 EUR and Wise charged me only 0,37 EUR for exchanging my EUR to HUF which is less than 1%.

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Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee - 1001bricks (52444)

[...] +1 Of course I'll calculate and often it's still worth to buy with fees, but I had to spend some time to calculate and compare :-( Which is why in a general [...] (26 days ago, May 2, 2024, to Selling)

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Re: Charging others for your PayPal fee - 1001bricks (52444)

[...] Interesting, thank you! But those who use this trick must be 0.001% of the buyers :-( For the remaining, it's a lot of fees on top of fees. (14 days ago, May 14, 2024, to Selling)

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