Hi, After spending some considerable time on the phone with Paypal customer service - I'm left feeling rather dejected. I operate a USD Paypal account. I receive payments in USD - pay my suppliers in USD - and ship my items from the USA. I just happen to live outside the US. It appears there is no way I will EVER be able to get the discounted Merchant Rate fees, as I never receive payments in my local currency (I don't even have a local currency balance loaded on my account!). They agreed with me on the phone that I was entitled to them, and qualified in USD - but so sorry, very apologetic, you don't qualify in your local currency. We can't help you. Has anyone else experienced this - is there a way around it? I can't charge my customers in my local currency, as I need to pay for my items in USD, and don't want to be subject to foreign currency fluctuations, etc.
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