No different than using a credit card. The seller pays the card fees and the buyer get the protection.
Yes the fee does come out of the seller's end which makes no sense to me since it's there to protect the buyer. Once the money is sent the buyer is the one in the hot seat so to speak. Seems to me the buyer should pay to be protected from a bad seller but what do I know. On here 99 percent of the time I send it FF because I'm a trustworthy person. If it's a more expensive item or something I feel I need to be protected on I will add three percent to cover the fees. But I do feel like that should be agreed on before the deal is set in stone. If it's a part I really need I'm not gonna back out because you as for 3 percent to cover your fee
Yes I absolutely agree with you. You want hear an argument from me. Alot of times when I'm buying stuff (I dont sell real often) It mostly from guys I I feel I can trust and I talk with in the boards daily. Like Roy or rusty and many others I feel it's just insulting to them for either one of us to pay a fee. Maybe I'm I just to trusting and naive to think it wont happen to me. I remember one time I sent a part to someone for free all i asked was for shipping and they still used the insured pp lol so I had to pay 3 percent of their shipping on a part I was giving them. I mean I get it ppl get in a habit of using it for their safety but on a free part? HahaThere are plenty of threads right here on this board about people getting scammed after sending money via PayPal “friends and family”. It’s right in the title, if they’re not your friend or your family don’t send money that way.
If you’re buying goods or services send it that way. Otherwise you have ZERO recourse if something goes sideways. It doesn’t even have to be an outright scam, there’s literally nothing you can do if something goes wrong or the parts aren’t as described. The seller doesn’t have to do a thing if they don’t want to, there’s nothing you can do. Pay the fee, let the seller pay the fee, whatever the terms of the sale are that’s fine. But sending friends and family on a purchase is asking to get ripped off. Most sellers here are good, but eventually it will catch up with you.
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Scammer alert!
You guys need to look, paypal fees are almost 5%. Not 3%.
If someone doesn't trust me, they pay the 5%.
But what p/p didnt tell us Canadian guys is that there is a conversion fee for us to accept the usd monies that they change to Canadian and then another conversion fee to convert it back to usd when I buy something from the good ole USA.This is in addition to the 4.4% and the transaction fee. KimIt’s 2.9% +0.30 cents for US sales. International sales are 4.4% for those Canada sales.
Right off the PayPal website...
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Yes I absolutely agree with you. You want hear an argument from me. Alot of times when I'm buying stuff (I dont sell real often) It mostly from guys I I feel I can trust and I talk with in the boards daily. Like Roy or rusty and many others I feel it's just insulting to them for either one of us to pay a fee. Maybe I'm I just to trusting and naive to think it wont happen to me. I remember one time I sent a part to someone for free all i asked was for shipping and they still used the insured pp lol so I had to pay 3 percent of their shipping on a part I was giving them. I mean I get it ppl get in a habit of using it for their safety but on a free part? Haha
But what p/p didnt tell us Canadian guys is that there is a conversion fee for us to accept the usd monies that they change to Canadian and then another conversion fee to convert it back to usd when I buy something from the good ole USA.This is in addition to the 4.4% and the transaction fee. Kim
So now to push this even further, how do y'all send the fee? Do you just add it to whatever the price for the part is? Here's why I ask. Say I buy a part for 100 bucks with shipping. So the fee is 3.20. I pay 100 and the seller has to pay 3.20. But if I send the fee included in the price, 103.20, then does paypal take the fee out of 100 or out of 103.20? What I have been doing is sending the fee as F&F and the total for whatever part I buy as Goods. I know the difference is probably negligible so it may not matter but I'm not here to make any enemies if I can help it. Some people will get mad over a dime.