I made a purchase with an ebay Canada gift Card that have recently arrived in stores. Through the ebay app, with the US$15 off 75 coupon. I had a CAN$100 ebay gift card applied through paypal. No idea what exhange rate is being used, but I assumed it would be simialr to paypals 2.5%. The coupon got split up and applied to a number of low price items, as did my gift card. My CAN$100 gift card covered US$ 62.92 in total payment (can go through each item and see how much came from the gc, the coupon, and cash). the gift card now has a zero balance The midpoint exhange rate for CAN100 is about US$78.50 tonight. ebay or paypal are charging an exchange premium over 20%?! No one in their right mind would ever buy an ebay gift card for this. I don't think Ill get anywhere asking thir call center in the phillipines about it which is the only contact offered I can seee the coupon applied to each item, but if I add the 15 coupon to what my gift card was worth it would look about right? Is there some kind of glitch here or are ebay theives?
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