It ain't talk. Paypal advises you of the cost of the transaction before it goes ahead. Anyway I had some more USD come into my account so I just sent him the $$. My objection is that they say right up front that there are no fees, and then they charge you. They need to remove this nonsense about it being free,
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I see. So even though the funds are sitting in Paypal's coffers, since I'm in NZ, and I'm sending to a USA relative, it's considered an overseas transaction? Whereas if I were transferring funds from my hypothetical USA bank, they'd consider it a local transaction?
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I'm in NZ yes, but I have both USD and GBP funds in my Paypal. And choosing only USD to send USD to my brother in the USA doesn't involve any currency fees. I thought it was because they had to take some from my GBP account to make up the amount but when I reduced it so that it all came from the USD account, there is still a fee.
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Thanks. I can use either of those but I guess I'm either going to use an Amazon gift certificate, or bite the bullet and accept the fees. Just wondering why they say they won't charge fees when they do. In my country that would be false advertising and subject to prosecution.
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I want to send USD74 to my brother. I've selected to send to a friend but it says it's going to charge me a fee. I have a mixture of some money in USD and the rest in GBP so it's taking USD65 from the USD account and the rest from the GBP account. And it's charging me a GBP fee. So, at present I'm looking for an alternate method of paying him.
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