Do you group buy?
That's great! but it's for all EU of only for Schengen?
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"Note: Cross Border Euro or Swedish Krona payments made between Accounts registered in the European Union or EEA will be treated as Domestic Payments for the purpose of applying Fees."
Example from Belgium: https://www.paypal.com/be/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-full?locale.x=en_BE
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A1.2. Inländische und grenzüberschreitende Zahlungen
Eine "inländische Zahlung" ist jede Zahlung in Euro (EUR) oder Schwedischen Kronen (SEK) von oder an PayPal-Konten, die in Ländern der Europäischen Union sowie in Island, Liechtenstein und Norwegen registriert sind.
Alle anderen Zahlungen sind "grenzüberschreitende Zahlungen".
(Siehe: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full)
Edit:
Und hier steht nicht, dass sich daran was ändern wird
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Yes it seems like they focused on pointing out the part, that it is just for free if you pay in EUR or SEK and use a bank account or existing value. So in case one just take part in group buys from the EU (+exceptions) in EUR/SEK, there shouldn't be any change to the current situation.
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I think the moral of the story is.. live in the United States.
Is it not possible to just.. tell paypal you live in the US? Pick any mcdonalds as your address lol
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well, no
If you live in the US and send money to EU you will pay the fee for border-crossing payments
As for address, i think you will need a credit/debit card/bank account within US if you want to confirm your account
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Just asking....but can it be that there is some new us law which forces paypal to do so?
Get from different Sites/Companys in the last days Mails about their Mailinglist that if you still want to be receive ones click here as something changed.
But maybe it is just a big coincidence that both things happen in the same timeframe...
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It's not just US
also that has nothing to do with it
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Seems I need to find an EU-groupbuyer for any future transactions.
But this is just bullshit and I hope it harms Paypal a lot. Who would pay 5 bucks to send money? That's insane.
According to the Dutch document it's 2 euro Europe-VS but that's still quite the sum if the transaction is usually around a dollar.
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Manueluis, PrinzVonBillAir and WFeszter are from EU or have an EU based Paypal account
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Yep, I am Canadian and this change was applied to us October 10, 2017. I stopped collecting bundles because of it, I just buy the rare bundle I with games I will play.
It's sad to see them apply this to USA also. I guess only thing we can do is either tank the free and send someone like $30 and have credit with them, or find a new payment website.
Personally I would be okay with just a 2.9% fee, as it won't hurt people sending $1-5 for a bundle split or leftover games, but $2.99 fee completely kills it.
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This change is for every user of paypal
So i saw this the other day: PayPal Policy Updates
Looks like PayPal updated their fees for everyone like they did with Canadians 5 months ago: SG thread
This will be a heavy hit for groupbuys that rely on PayPal and not on SteamWallet, CSGO Keys, Gems or other alternative methods.
What do you think it will happen to GroupBuys?
Any good alternative to paypal? Do you use google wallet or venmo? How about Amazon Pay?
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