joemagiera
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I am not much of a seller or buyer, so I've only got the free paypal account. I've never "upgraded" (as they call it) my account to where I have to pay fees. As such, when I do sell something and someone wants to use paypal, I make it clear it can't be a credit card type paypal payment, it must be a payment from an existing paypal balance.
So I make a deal and the guy pays me paypal no problem. But wait, paypal charged me fees. I call them and they told me they just instituted a policy change "about 2 weeks ago" that if the transaction is marked as a purchase, it's charged fees, even if payed from existing balances on a free account.
So you free paypal account users, make sure to specify the payment has to be marked as personal rather than purchase. Just another example of ebay owned paypal rolling over people and not making it worthwhile to use their service.
So I make a deal and the guy pays me paypal no problem. But wait, paypal charged me fees. I call them and they told me they just instituted a policy change "about 2 weeks ago" that if the transaction is marked as a purchase, it's charged fees, even if payed from existing balances on a free account.
So you free paypal account users, make sure to specify the payment has to be marked as personal rather than purchase. Just another example of ebay owned paypal rolling over people and not making it worthwhile to use their service.

