Skip to main content

PayPal Community

  • Dashboard
  • Send and Request
  • Wallet
  • Business
  • Help
Log in
  • Welcome
    • Guidelines
    • News and Events
    • Suggestions for PayPal
    • General Discussions
  • PayPal Help Community
    • Managing Account
    • Transactions
    • Wallet
    • Security and Fraud
    • Products & Services
    • Reporting
  • MTS Community
    • PayPal Upgrade Community
    • PayPal Payments Standard
    • REST APIs
    • NVP/SOAP APIs
    • SDKs
    • Sandbox Environment
    • PayPal Reporting
    • Payflow
    • Ideas for MTS
    • Client-side Integration
    • Server-side Integration
  • The Archives
    • PayPal Help Community Archives
      • Managing Account Archives
      • Transactions Archives
      • Wallet Archives
      • Security and Fraud Archives
      • Products & Services Archives
      • Reporting Archives
    • Help Community
      • PayPal Basics Archives
      • Payments Archives
      • My Money Archives
      • My Account Archives
      • Disputes and Limitations Archives
      • Products and Services Archives
      • PayPal Credit Archives
    • Merchant Community
      • Merchant Products
      • Business Tools Archives
      • Reporting Archives
      • Managing Risk and Fraud Archives
    • Help Archives
      • About Business (Archive)
      • About Payments (Archive)
      • About Settings (Archive)
      • About eBay (Archive)
      • About Protections (Archive)
      • About Products (Archive)
    • Social and Your Voice Archives
      • Off Topic (Archive)
      • My Feedback for PayPal (Archive)
    • About PayPal Archives
      • Watercooler (Archive)
      • Tax Information (Archive)
      • Fees (Archive)
      • eBay and PayPal (Archive)
      • Coupons and promotions (Archive)
    • My Account Archives
      • My account settings (Archive)
      • Account limits and verification (Archive)
      • Account balance (Archive)
      • Bank accounts and credit cards (Archive)
    • Payments Archives
      • Sending money (Archive)
      • Receiving money (Archive)
      • Refunds (Archive)
      • Donations and Fundraising (Archive)
    • Disputes and Security Archives
      • Disputes and claims (Archive)
      • Fraud, phishing and spoof (Archive)
    • My Business Archives
      • Merchant services (Archive)
      • Reporting and tracking (Archive)
      • Shipping (Archive)
    • PayPal Products Archives
      • PayPal Debit Mastercard (Archive)
      • PayPal Extras MasterCard (Archive)
      • PayPal Mobile & Other Services (Archive)
      • Student Accounts (Archive)
      • Bill Me Later (Archive)
    • Getting to know PayPal
      • My PayPal account
      • Security and protection
    • Receiving and sending money
      • Buying with PayPal
      • Selling with PayPal
    • PayPal Here UK
      • PayPal Here News and Events
      • PayPal Here Community
      • Chip and Pin Card Reader
      • PayPal Here App

The Community Forum is not available for new posts or responses; previous posts remain available to review. For comprehensive support options, please visit PayPal.com/HelpCenter
Merchant Technical Support: For technical support and related questions, please visit our Technical Support Help Center or Developer Central

If you want to report illegal content under the EU Digital Services Act, please do so here

since ‎Jan-04-2024
Country: Germany
Type: Personal
USDcountry
USDcountry Contributor
Contributor
7
Posts
7
Kudos
0
Solutions
Esteemed
Friendly
Liked
Giving
Ice Breaker
Active
The Return
View all
Latest Contributions by USDcountry
  • Topics USDcountry has Participated In
  • Latest Contributions by USDcountry

Re: PayPal is forcing me to exchange my US dollar ...

by USDcountry Contributor in Transactions
‎Jan-09-2024 05:49 AM
1 Kudo
‎Jan-09-2024 05:49 AM
1 Kudo
I need help, please! PayPal allowed me to receive USD in my German account and keeps it separately.  How can I transfer the USD without a currency exchange? Has no one an idea? Anyone with similar experiences? ... View more

Re: PayPal is forcing me to exchange my US dollar ...

by USDcountry Contributor in Transactions
‎Jan-06-2024 11:43 AM
2 Kudos
‎Jan-06-2024 11:43 AM
2 Kudos
I need help, please! PayPal allowed me to receive USD in my German account and keeps it separately.  How can I transfer the USD without a currency exchange? Has no one an idea? Anyone with similar experiences?   ... View more

Re: PayPal is forcing me to exchange my US dollar ...

by USDcountry Contributor in Transactions
‎Jan-06-2024 10:42 AM
1 Kudo
‎Jan-06-2024 10:42 AM
1 Kudo
I'm happy to live in a world where I no longer have to travel far to shops and wait days for catalogs in the mail. I can open a WISE account on the computer and have a checking account in the US and Britain straight away. I do not receive my USD from the US and pay taxes on my entire world income in the country where I currently live. I would like to finally transfer my USD balance, which I have in my German PayPal account for months now, to my USD account at WISE because I receive over 3% interest there, which of course I also pay tax on. PayPal never intended to be the Money Police Of The World, so I can only think of two reasons why PayPal prevents this transfer: 1. WISE is a very unpleasant free competitor to PayPal. 2. PayPal wants to earn a lot of extra money through this currency exchange surcharge of 4–5 percent, which is unique in the industry; around 2 percent would be normal! ... View more

Re: PayPal is forcing me to exchange my US dollar ...

by USDcountry Contributor in Transactions
‎Jan-05-2024 11:31 AM
1 Kudo
‎Jan-05-2024 11:31 AM
1 Kudo
Yes, I am German and have a German-registered PayPal account, but this should not matter, I have a USD balance in this account and need to transfer it to my USD bank account. In the USD country where I am right now, PayPal does not offer fully working accounts, here you cannot receive money in PayPal accounts. ... View more

PayPal is forcing me to exchange my US dollar bala...

by USDcountry Contributor in Transactions
‎Jan-04-2024 12:14 PM
1 Kudo
‎Jan-04-2024 12:14 PM
1 Kudo
Hello everyone! I live in a small USD country and have almost 1000 USD in my PayPal account. I would like to use the US dollar balance with my US Google Wallet to make purchases from merchants or transfer it to my US debit card or US checking account. PayPal prevents both. When I use Google Wallet for a touch payment at merchants in USD, PayPal always does a currency exchange from USD to Euro with PayPal's usual (unbelievable!) surcharge of four to five percent. I don't want to pay this surcharge, 2 percent would be okay! USD online purchases are not possible here as retailers do not ship to this small country. And when I'm in Europe, I can only pay in EUR again. When I try to transfer my US dollar balance to my US checking account, I suddenly no longer see the transfer option from the PayPal balance on Xoom, even though it was previously displayed on PayPal with a fee. The transfer to a US debit card is also prevented with various cards telling me that the card number is invalid. Support requests only yield the answers that it's due to Google Wallet, which can't be true since I use a USD wallet, and Xoom doesn't answer at all several times! Does anyone know about an option to get my USD that I may have missed with NO forced currency exchange? Thanks for the help, Rolf ... View more
Labels:
  • Labels:
  • Add or withdraw money
Paypal Logo
  • Help
  • Contact Us
  • Security
  • Fees
  • © 1999-2025 PayPal, Inc. All rights reserved.
  • Privacy
  • Legal
  • Cookies
  • Policy Updates

The money in your balance is eligible for pass-through FDIC insurance.

The PayPal Cash Mastercard is issued by The Bancorp Bank pursuant to a license by Mastercard International Incorporated. The Bancorp Bank; Member FDIC.

Powered by Khoros
Welcome to the PayPal Community!