Paypal Personal Gift charges?

[Dellboye]

Has anyone sent a payment as a gift via paypal recently as they seemed to have started to charge for the privelige. Or maybe its just something strange with my account.
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[craig]

Sorry mate, you should have said before you paid!!

I sometimes get charged for gifts but sometimes not... i thought it may be to do with limits on what you can send but ive sent more recently than ever and not had any charges so i cant work it out!

[PennyBlake]

Ive recently sent a gift and I too got charged.

Uually when I make a payment I dont pay a charge, however, the person who recieves the money pays a charge (Usually 3.8% + 20p depending on the volume they recieve). However, when you make a payment as a gift the charge is paid by the person making the payment (i.e. you). Its so that if you make a gift os say £10 thenthat person recieves £10 not £10 less charges
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[foxes1]

Reading the Paypal website it looks like to me, that if you use your Paypal account for payment you will not get charged for payment, but if you use a credit/debit charge to pay you will be charged.

https://cms.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/UserAgreement_full&locale.x=en_GB#8.%20Fees

If you look at the attached link it may be clearer (You need to look at Section 8 ).

[STEEL_CITY_SMOGGY]

I never fully understood this, but I have come up with the theory that if you have money in your paypal account then sending as a gift is free, however if the payment comes from your card/bank through paypal than there is a charge.
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[craig]

foxes1 wrote:

Reading the Paypal website it looks like to me, that if you use your Paypal account for payment you will not get charged for payment, but if you use a credit/debit charge to pay you will be charged.

STEEL_CITY_SMOGGY wrote:

I never fully understood this, but I have come up with the theory that if you have money in your paypal account then sending as a gift is free, however if the payment comes from your card/bank through paypal than there is a charge.

That sounds familiar actually and would make perfect sense!

[Senior82]

STEEL_CITY_SMOGGY wrote:

I never fully understood this, but I have come up with the theory that if you have money in your paypal account then sending as a gift is free, however if the payment comes from your card/bank through paypal than there is a charge.

That is correct.

[Geddon]

Yeah, I noticed that a while ago and still seems to be the case.

[Auchinleckian]

...and yet I recently spent a fair bit on ebay with nothing in my Paypal account and din't get charged for using my credit card on gifts. Anything perhaps with feedback scores, or level of buying?

[paulo]

Craig wrote:

foxes1 wrote: Reading the Paypal website it looks like to me, that if you use your Paypal account for payment you will not get charged for payment, but if you use a credit/debit charge to pay you will be charged. STEEL_CITY_SMOGGY wrote: I never fully understood this, but I have come up with the theory that if you have money in your paypal account then sending as a gift is free, however if the payment comes from your card/bank through paypal than there is a charge. That sounds familiar actually and would make perfect sense!

Agreed, I have just made a gift with some money in my account and I have not been charged.

Cant argue with it I supose. Just wish paypal would reduce their charges on low value transactions!

[tonyleach]

i tried to pay 2 as gifts last week and the second 1 was going to have a charge , so i left the second 1 till the next day and didnt get charged
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