@project1090. This is not really an accident. The PayPal app's recent update (I believe Oct 5 or about) changed so that when you send money to someone, that you have sent money to previously I believe, it defaults to "goods and services" and unless you pay real close attention, you could press send and the recipient will be charged 2.9% fee. Most likely, PayPal did that on purpose to charge people who don't pay close attention to the fine printed selection. Best case, it is a flaw in the app and some incompetent app developer did it and with their shoddy QA process, the bug went unnoticed. Either way, paypal sucks. Better use Venmo.
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