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Hi. I want to withdraw money paid in US dollars directly to my business bank account in Romania which is denominated in dollars, and which is not supposed to accept any other type of currency.   But when I go to withdraw the money, I find that PayPal is about to convert the currency from dollars to euros. The euro isn't even the national currency of Romania, and I do not want to pay the conversion fees.   How can I get PayPal to make this payment in dollars, which is, after all, the native currency of the money I am trying to transfer? ... View more

My partner and I run a business from Romania, and have set up a bank account that is denominated in US dollars. We did this specifically so that we could transfer PayPal balances from US customer payments without conversion fees.   Yet it is only now that I attempt to make a balance transfer from PayPal to this USD bank account (which is registered and confirmed with PayPal) that I am warned on the final screen that PayPal will make a conversion to Euro from the native USD balance currency.   Why? The Euro is not Romania's national currency anyway, and if euros arrive in this account, we will get alerts from the bank and extra charges.   How can I transfer USD to this account without conversion? ... View more