Thanks for the recommendation on changing the option away from PayPal doing the conversion to being billed in the merchants currency. With the recent update to the paypal website and its merchant connector 1. the option to switch from PayPal doing the conversion to my home country's currency back to letting my credit card do the currency conversion after using the merchants own charging currency has been removed from the transaction application interface 2. trying to find the option to move back to (in my case) letting my credit card company do the currency conversion instead of paypal's not so attractive currency conversion rate is buried ridiculously deep and obscurely in the usage dialogue. I am going to send my experience to EU competition authority with a request for an investigation.
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