I've only ever used PayPal to buy stuff. I'm not a business, just a private party who has an expensive ($8000) piece of used stereo equipment for sale and I've found another private party who'd like to buy it and wants to use PayPal. He's agreed to pay the PayPal fees. Can I put the fees in the invoice to him or does he initiate the payment to me and put the fees in there? I considered adding the fees to the item price, but then that just increases the fees. I can see eating the fees if this were a low ticket item, but we're talking about a couple hundred dollars that are added so that the buyer has the convenience of using PayPal (no such fees are incurred if the transaction were wire, check, etc.)
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