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Less Money Received

I sent my son $80, but he only received $77.38. This is the first time I sent a payment through PayPal. Can anyone tell me why they deducted $2.62? If it's a service fee, shouldn't they have deducted it from me? Thank you.

Charging fees calculation

Any know how to calculated the charging fees? I sending taiwan dollar 2086 to my friend, but she receive only 1984. I tot the charging fees is about 5% so the second time i transfer 108 , but my friend receive only 93. Which means paypal deducted alm...

Payments

Hi. I'm a first time PayPal user. My uncle sent me alot of money but according to an email i got from PayPal "you won't receive the money in your PayPal account on till this payment has been cleared by you, ask the sender how can you clear this payme...

Fees

I am trying to make a payment of $94.00 to a friend. I expect the fee to e about $3.00 (2.9%), but it shows a fee of $8.90 - Why is that??

Sending Payment

Hi, I am buying a puppy worth AUD $1,900 and I want to pay through buyers protection? Do you know how much the fee for the merchant? If the he doesn't have paypal account what is his requirements?

Transaction Fees don't seem to work out

Hello, I cant seem to make any of the transaction fees fit what we are being charged at the minute.2.90% + 30p doesn't work, neither does 1.5% + 10p or 2% + 5p Here are 3 examples below £41.46 paid - 0.78 fee = £40.68£26.17 paid - 0.57 fee = £25.60 (...

How can I pay my fees outside of the transaction?

When I sell an item, my in house system creates an invoice. Say for $ 10.00. I collect the money from PayPal but they take out fees. So now I only have $ 9.70 to pay the invoice. This is forcing me to subtract a credit from EVERY transaction in my ac...