Paypal Charged me a 4% fee?

[peilthetraveler]

I just sold an item for $3,860 on ebay.  Paypal deducted $150 for the transaction.  Thats almost a 4% fee, not 2.9%  What should i do?

[mhterminal]

Any answer yet?  I was about to have a large sum sent to me but I don't want to pay shylock fees.

[peilthetraveler]

No answer yet.  Does anyone have paypals phone number?  I could call them and ask directly, but they dont make it easy to call them.

[peilthetraveler]

I found out...they charge me 3.9% because I was paid in australian dollars that they had to convert.  😞

**bleep**!

[profdata]

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@peilthetraveler wrote:

I found out...they charge me 3.9% because I was paid in australian dollars that they had to convert.  😞

**bleep**!

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Actually it was because it was a cross border payment.  If it had been in Australina funds the fee would have been more

[PayPal_Olivia]

Hi peilthetraveler, and welcome to the forums!

You got the correct answer from profdata. A 3.9% fee would be the normal 2.9% plus 1% for a cross-border payment. There's more information available if you click "Fees" at the bottom of any PayPal page.

Thanks, profdata!

Olivia

[ristic77]

I tried to sell a thing for $ 1, to see how much my fee will be and when I did I could not believe that I took PAYPAL 33% fee! Is that possible?

Which means that I have a $ 1 got $ 0.67!

[peilthetraveler]

yeah, thats the 2.9% + 30 cent charge you saw.

[profdata]

Paypal micro account fees are a lot less than the normal paypal fees  5% + 5 cents

a. Domestic Micropayments in U.S. Dollars. The following Fees apply when both the sender and recipient are in the United States, and the payment is in U.S. Dollars:

Activity  Micropayments Pricing Fees

Sending (buying)	Free
Receiving (selling)	5% + $0.05 USD

b. International Micropayments. The following Fees apply when either the sender or recipient is outside the United States:

Activity  Micropayments Pricing Fees

Sending (buying)	Free*
Receiving (selling)	6% + Fixed Fee**
* Your financial institution may charge fees directly to the card you use to fund a cross-border payment even where no currency conversion is involved. ** See clause 8.5(c) below for a detailed list of fixed fees for international payments.

c. Fixed Fees. The fixed fee that applies to international micropayments pricing is based on the currency of the payment:

Currency Fee Australian Dollar: $0.05 AUD Brazilian Real: 0.10 BRL Canadian Dollar: $0.05 CAD Czech Koruna: 1.67 CZK Danish Krone: 0.43 DKK Euro: €0.05 EUR Hong Kong Dollar: $0.39 HKD Hungarian Forint: 15 HUF Israeli Shekel: 0.20 ILS Japanese Yen: ¥7 JPY Malaysian Ringgit: 0.20 MYR Mexican Peso: $0.55 MXN

Currency Fee New Zealand Dollar: $0.08 NZD Norwegian Krone: 0.47 NOK Philippine Peso: 2.5 PHP Polish Zlotych: 0.23 PLN Singapore Dollar: $0.08 SGD Swedish Krona: 0.54 SEK    Swiss Franc: 0.09 CHF Taiwan New Dollar: 2.00 TWD    Thai Baht: 1.80 THB      U.K. Pounds Sterling: £0.05 GBP U.S. Dollar:  $0.05 USD