Paypal fees

[kalexis]

Hi guys.
Did anybody came across the fact paypal charges fees differently from person to person?
Example, sending 550$ through mass payment cost me 11$ fee, while my friend from another country paid normal 1-2$ fee (for mass payment).
I tried contacting paypal, they gave me unclear answer for this.
Does anyone familiar with this situation?

 

[CyberKilleR]

i think this's not correct board for asking question about paypal

 

[jayfella]

paypal gotta get paid. You got no choice but to like it. suck it up and move on.

 

[l0calh0st]

It depends on the type of money transfer.

 

[drlove]

There are many factors which decide the amount of fees (cross country, normal or gift).

 

[kalexis]

thx for your opinions!

 

[Tango]

That sounds about right, receiving $1k used to be $25 here

 

[HotNoob]

paypal just has outragous fees...

this year i spent about $850 on fees, over $9000, and that's with me forcing my customers to convert to canadian dollars first... it would probably be triple that amount if i had to convert it from usd to cad lol.

unfortunately, theres nothing you can do about it >.<

 

[Prazsky]

Paypal has outrageous fees but I found that I was losing more money letting my bank do the currency conversion for international transactions. So now I leave it to Paypal to do the conversions and am actually saving 1% for every transaction.

Hey no matter who you use as a payment gateway, you will have to pay the fees. You will never get direct conversion rates.