It depends on your bank, here I pay a fixed charge of US$2.1 only for
overseas cheque from US, UK, Europe (in Euro), Australia...etc. But with my
experience of over a thousand transactions, less than 5% of people are
paying cheque as Paypal is a much easy and quicker way for them. Of course
for ebay transaction I request a Weston Union money order which the buyer
has to pay the cost and the charge is similar to Paypal.
If you complain about Paypal charge for non credit card payment then you can
open a personal account which receive non credit card payment at no charge.
I have both premier and personal account but even I tell the buyer I give 3%
price reduction on non credit card payment but very few people are
interested on it.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martyn Smoothy" <mds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dare say all your points are correct.
> But it's quick & it's easy & there is no other alternative that work as
> well
> for international payments (as far as I know).
> Just try sending a bank to bank transfer from the UK to France - paypal's
> a
> bloody wonder & very cheap.
>
> Cheers - Martyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Andrew Fildes
>
> If I request a Paypal payment in this way, fine but there is still a
> charge for 'accepting' the payment' of (as I remember) 30 cents plus
> 2.9% or in my case 3.9% as I am an 'International Account' holder -
> that is, they have charged me an extra 1% for NOT confirming my address
> and NOT offering any transaction insurance. This may have changed now
> that they have added AUD to their list of approved currencies and local
> offices.
> What burns is that this fee is supposed to cover credit card fees and
> the like but still applies if the money is simply transferred into my
> account from another Paypal member's account, an operation which costs
> them nothing. The English operation Moneybookers(?) makes no charge for
> such a transaction.
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