ebay / paypal

[linuxman]

New to ebay and paypal.
If I buy something in foreign currency ($) from China (a brush and or blades - oh dear, more stuff) do I pay anything for currency conversion. Googled the question, but could not find the answer - at least not in a clear form I could understand.

And do I put money into my empty paypal account first?

Grateful for any advice.

 

[hunnymonster]

You just pay. There is a loading fee included in Paypal's relatively crappy exchange rate, your card would be charged in pounds based on the converted figure.

You can play around with the real numbers using PPCalc

 

[linuxman]

So paypal calculate a value in £ that I pay them (via my credit card) based on their currency conversion rate - that incorporates the relevant 'fee'. Got it. Thanks.

Someone told me this old fashioned shaving lark was cheaper. Now its a hobby ;-)

 

[Blyth Spirit]

Someone told me this old fashioned shaving lark was cheaper. Now its a hobby ;-)

Cheaper? Don't believe everything that people tell you...

:lol:

 

[cheese_dave]

Someone told me this old fashioned shaving lark was cheaper. Now its a hobby ;-)

And after that it becomes an addiction.

 

[slash]

Can i ask that everyone refrains from posting in the for sale/trades for at least 6-8 weeks as if i buy anything else im going to get divorced...see keeps asking how many faces and shaves can one man have in a lifetime... :lol:

 

[hunnymonster]

Hopefully just the one face and around 3500 shaves per decade assuming a few days off per year and shaving once per day....

 

[slash]

Hopefully just the one face and around 3500 shaves per decade assuming a few days off per year and shaving once per day....

Now im worried shes correct saying we are all sad on here... :?

 

[moodymick]

just remind her it's something that you do everyday and not just a fad. And anyway, it's all for her benefit well, that's the sort of logic my Mrs uses when she buy all this cosmetic / skincare crap - oh, hang on a minute.........

 

[hunnymonster]

Hopefully just the one face and around 3500 shaves per decade assuming a few days off per year and shaving once per day....

Now im worried shes correct saying we are all sad on here... :?

Sorry - the engineer in my couldn't resist a quick approximation... (not a civil engineer though - used to be if you looked up "Boring" in the yellow pages that it said "see Civil Engineer" :lol: - the Institute of Civil Engineers being the humourless bunch of arseholes that they are expensively lobbied the yellow pages to get that changed)

 

[pedro083]

Hopefully just the one face and around 3500 shaves per decade assuming a few days off per year and shaving once per day....

Now im worried shes correct saying we are all sad on here... :?

Dont worry slash I will look out for and take another bullet like the 39C :mrgreen:

 

[slash]

Hopefully just the one face and around 3500 shaves per decade assuming a few days off per year and shaving once per day....

Now im worried shes correct saying we are all sad on here... :?

Dont worry slash I will look out for and take another bullet like the 39C :mrgreen:

:lol: So it was you..

 

[sj184]

slightly off topic. Do you know if it's possible to add an incentive for someone to pay you using bank transfer / postal order on ebay? - anything wrong with that? For e.g. free delivery if paying by bank transfer.

I know that you have to offer paypal, but I don't want paypal taking 5%ish of my final sale price.

 

[hunnymonster]

It's possible to add it in the verbiage - but eBay's rule says no differential pricing - so if it gets noticed it'll run the risk of being pulled.

 

[slash]

Dont think you have to offer paypal as a payment option..