I've spent two days trying to replicate the success others have had with getting PayPal reps to help them link their US based USD account to their Canadian Paypal. And now one of the reps just straight up lied to me multiple times. I understand the company policy must be something along the lines of, "get the customer to pay our exchange rate fees no matter what"....but this is absurd. I'm being forced to convert from USD to CAD at an absurd rate which costs me nearly 2k in transaction fees. It's robbery, and even though I know there is a way around it based on evidence from here (which is a freakin Paypal site!!) and also from other forums online, PayPal reps are being wholly uncooperative. It's gross.
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