MORE PayPal b*llsh*t.. so WTF is this?..

[scorch56]

OK.. I've sold and shipped stuff to Canada before.. many times.. over the years. I've NEVER seen this. Tonight someone purchased a BIN from me and paid through PayPal. I went to check in PayPal itself and clicked on the transaction details. On that page.. at the VERY top where it always says something like "This item has been paid for".. I see a hyperlink that says "fee details" (NEVER saw that before) so I click it and up pops a little box that has these figures:


Total Fee: -$1.47 USD

Fee Type: Payment Received
Basic Fee: -$1.17 USD
Cross Border Fee: -$0.30 USD
Non USD Fee: $0.00 USD
BC Promo Offer Fee: $0.00 USD



.. so WTF is a "Cross Border Fee", a "Non USD Fee", and a "BC Promo Offer Fee"? I've NEVER seen any of these terms before, nor do I recall ANY announcement, or notification sent to me from PayPal elaborating on it. God I hate EBay and PayPal. If it's going to start costing me more money to do business in Canada..

[Princess-Isabela]

to tell you the truth, cross border fee exists for years, it only occurs when you're dealing with international buyers.

[scorch56]

to tell you the truth, cross border fee exists for years, it only occurs when you're dealing with international buyers.

Well.. I've never seen any of these fees annotated onto my charges. So is this an extra fee PukePal charges me for doing business out of the country? God as my witness; I've NEVER seen that charge in MY details.. especially when taking payment from Canadian buyers.

[rcgamer]

Well.. I've never seen any of these fees annotated onto my charges. So is this an extra fee PukePal charges me for doing business out of the country? God as my witness; I've NEVER seen that charge in MY details.. especially when taking payment from Canadian buyers.

I have it on mine too. Yes of course its another fee from paypal for out of country buyers. Their fees are getting quite ridiculous. 53 cent fee on a $6 payment. I really am considering going to money orders only. I am also thinking of putting things up on yahoo to test the waters. Apparently they don't charge any fees.

[Vroomfunkel]

I have it on mine too. Yes of course its another fee from paypal for out of country buyers. Their fees are getting quite ridiculous. 53 cent fee on a $6 payment. I really am considering going to money orders only. I am also thinking of putting things up on yahoo to test the waters. Apparently they don't charge any fees.

They didn't, but they do now. However I have a suspicion that they are considerably more amenable than eBay's fees .. especially now that in the UK they've bumped up the FVF in lots of categories to 9% ...

[Kitsune Sniper]

Scorch, you're not the only one that gets burned by these fees.

A while back I had a problem with a lost package. The buyer was Canadian and he paid me in US dollars. The package never got to him, so I refunded his money... and when he got the money back, Paypal converted the cash to Canadian Dollars, so he actually LOST some of his refunded money. Ridiculous...

[udisi]

Yahoo is a FREE service in the US, it's a little harder to navigate and there isn't the traffic there that ebay gets but you can put reasonable BIN's up and do very well.