I got an email from Paypal stating a change to their policy effective 2 August 2012.
An additional 1% processing fee will be incurred if you are a sender registered in Australia and you fund your payment entirely or partially by international credit or debit card.
On their website:
https://cms.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&conte…
Under clause 11.4, under the heading “Domestic personal transactions”, insert an asterisk after “Payment Method: entirely or partially funded by debit card or credit card” and insert “*If you are a sender registered in Australia and you fund your payment entirely or partially by international debit or credit card, you will incur an additional 1% processing fee on the amount funded by that card.”
I'm still trying to make heads and tails of this, but it appears to be a processing fee, not a currency conversion fee, so you' will get charged 1% for using a linked 28˚ Mastercard to buy products from overseas.
Though I may be completely wrong..
Sending an email to Paypal for clarification… can anyone else weigh in on this?
Thanks.
I don't normally use the C-word to refer to organisations, but for PayPal, I make an exception