Paypal Payments

fishfanny79

fishfanny79

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Just wondering if anyone here thinks that I am unreasonable for adding the 3% that paypal charges me for receiving money into the final price of the item sold.
For instance if I sell you something for $100 and YOU want to pay me with paypal, and they charge me $3 for receiving it...shouldn't YOU pay the fee?
Every time I've payed with paypal, I was charged the fee ontop of the item and just thought it was standard practice. Well I had 2 deals shot down today because I wouldn't eat the fee...and we are talking about a $1300 item for one of them!! I'm not going to eat a $40 paypal fee, you must be crazy!
So sellers out there, please let me know what YOU think!
Pete
 
jonthefishguy

jonthefishguy

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4.7 No Surcharges. You agree that you will not impose a surcharge or any other fee for accepting PayPal as a payment method. You may charge a handling fee in connection with the sale of goods or services, as long as the handling fee does not operate as a surcharge and is not higher than the handling fee you charge for non-PayPal transactions.

I guess people are going to think you are now going to rollthat on to the price which will now make people think twice about doing business with you.
So, lets say someone went to you and bought it face to face and you charged them 0 for a handling fee because they didnt use paypal. That means you cant charge more than 0 for paypal users either.
 
teresaq

teresaq

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I always just add a few dollars to the handling charge when I set up to sell. That way its just added as part of the shipping fee.
TeresaQ
 
flricordia

flricordia

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The fee is for an automatic money transfer. It would be slower and cost much more to use ************* and much, much slower to send or recieve a money order or check. I think the fee is reasonable and yes, it is wrong to charge the customer the fee and against paypal policies. If you want to charge for the fee you have to add it into your selling price but not state 'add 3% paypal fee'.
Careful doing this. If a buyer were to contact paypal and say they were charged this fee paypal will freeze the sellers account giving past buyers 30 days to file for those fees returned and account could be closed.
 
ruaround

ruaround

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its ridiculous to charge a person for your paypal fee... you agreed to not charge for it when you signed up and got an account... i hate the people that do this and think they are covering it up in "shipping & handling fees"... $15.00 shipping for a game or DVD... cmon that is ludicrous!!!
its kinda like saying i bought this from you so you need to pay my sales tax...
 
fishfanny79

fishfanny79

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It's NOTHING like paying someone elses sales tax. If you agree to pay me a certain price, then that is what I expect to CLEAR. From now on, I will just bump my asking price up by 3% to cover that fee.
I guess I'm the only bonehead that didn't know it was against paypal policy (does anyone actually read the terms and conditions? lol) and has been paying the fees for sellers the whole time. I bought an item a few months back for $750 and ended up having to paypal over $770...

So yeah, maybe people thought I was doing funny stuff...but really just didn't know. As I said, my prices just went up slightly...say by 3%!

Pete
 
jonthefishguy

jonthefishguy

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Originally Posted by FishFanNY79
It's NOTHING like paying someone elses sales tax. If you agree to pay me a certain price, then that is what I expect to CLEAR. From now on, I will just bump my asking price up by 3% to cover that fee.
I guess I'm the only bonehead that didn't know it was against paypal policy (does anyone actually read the terms and conditions? lol) and has been paying the fees for sellers the whole time. I bought an item a few months back for $750 and ended up having to paypal over $770...

So yeah, maybe people thought I was doing funny stuff...but really just didn't know. As I said, my prices just went up slightly...say by 3%!

Pete
Thanks for letting everyone know that you are not someone to do business with.....
 
mudplayerx

mudplayerx

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Why not just calculate what the 3% fee is and silently add it to the price of your item when you are creating the sale? That way nobody knows and nobody whines.
 
fishfanny79

fishfanny79

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Mudplayerx: That's exactly what I meant saying my prices went up 3%. And trust me Jon, I would be thinking the same thing about me if I was on YOUR side of the monitor. I obviously wouldn't have put this in a public forum if I had known I was doing something wrong...but I'm glad that I did because now I know and it is corrected!
I JUST started selling and was using the rules set forth by the people I had been buying FROM. Guess I should have read the terms and conditions after all instead of just scrolling all the way to the bottom and checking off "I HAVE READ AND AGREE". lol I would have saved myself a lot of money. Thinking about all of those fees that I paid for upsets me slightly...
 
dreamer44

dreamer44

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when you apply for a credit card and they charge you a yearly fee for their card you pay it without question if that is the card you want to carry.
Pay pal's 3% fee is kind of like that, you are paying "pay pal" to use their services. I personally dont think its fair if you impose that fee on your customers, you want to be able to get paid through pay pal you should incure the fee they impose on you without making your customers pay it for you. YOU are paying for the privlage to be paid in a very convienient manner by using pay pal, that is their fee to you for giving you this convienience. I think you, the Seller should eat the fee as you are paying for a service from the pay pal company.
When the prices start to go up because of this fee, I think I would much rater go to the store and buy a NEW item, Might as well if im going to pay your fee (also if I then have a prob with the item, I can go back and get a replacement without much of a hassle)
There is a reason why pay pal charges you a fee to accept a payment and they dont charge a fee to PAY a payment.
Im not a cheap person when it comes to spending money, but whats fair is fair. And yes., I do have pay pal and have also eaten the fee from them, and also eaten the fee on a popular auc tion site too....
this is just my opinion
thanks
Lori
 
reefkprz

reefkprz

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how does it make him a crook if he's asking if its right or not? it sounds to me like he's been burnt by other sellers, and was doing what he thought everybody did. true he should have read the agreement, no court of law in the world will accept the I didnt know as a defense. but I'm not a court of law. I'm a realist. I see no reason to slander him for asking.
as for me:
I eat the fee, and when fed ex screws up the shipping quotes I eat that too. I have actually lost quite a bit of money because of fed ex's quotes being off. meaning the quote for shipping was 45$ cost of the coral 25 shipping actually cost 85$ sent it anyways, and I never tell the person who is recieving the coral. thats just how I operate. I said I could do it for 70 bucks so thats what it cost them.
 
spankey

spankey

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Read the threads he burnt us over at --, now he claimes I have to pay for equipment I sold him and I never got paid. Paypal took the money back due to the circumstances on how he paid me and many others....
 
mudplayerx

mudplayerx

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I don't even see how this is an issue. If you add the 3% to your price, then the buyer is agreeing to pay that price... it is right in front of his/her face when she clicks on the bid button.
I think the point of Paypal's rule was so that seller's don't advertise on their auctions "Buyers will pay an additional 3% fee for using paypal."
Nobody has any proof that a seller upped the price to accomodate fees from Paypal or any other 3rd party. I think the whole thing is ridiculous. Should we, as the seller then incur the shipping and handling costs as well? I don't think that there is a company on earth that doesn't adjust the prices of their merchandise to reflect the cost of getting it to your door.
Heck, my electric company charges $4.50 just to use a credit card.
 
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