steam paypal interaction

I did not notice that. Yet.

Bought Borderlands last friday using paypal and there were no additional fees.

Added everything that was on my paypal to my steam wallet, there were no fees.

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so general opinion seems to be an issue on my end however I don't think anyone was using billmelater so who knows.

Nope for me, less than 24 hours ago I bought something on steam store using paypal, and the charges is same that was on steam price list.

The last time I bought something from there using PayPal was early this month during the Red Faction sales, but I didn't had any trouble or extra charges then...

update: have confirmed it tries to add a fee even if I use my linked bank account through paypal. I wish I knew what was causing this as the amount it charges varies based on amount (seems to be a percentage but too lazy to actually do the math). I use avira which is what several of my it friends recommended and am running a full scan now. This is frustrating and I don't really want to have to do a full windows reinstall the day before classes start just to test if this still happens.

Possibly taxes in your country based on the amount of money you used or so.. I remember having to fill a form after making 100 deals on the market or something like that to confirm if I am living in the USA or not and other information for tax use.

Ask steam support? I have no idea, I just use my CC through steam.

Are you in the US? Could be some kind of fee for conversion or something?

I've been making purchases on Steam through Paypal and when it goes to the Paypal login page, the price listed is slightly higher, like what you mentioned. However, after finishing the transaction, when I receive the receipt, the amount is what was originally listed at checkout on Steam, so it doesn't seem to actually change the price. I have no idea why it's doing this.

Edit: Have you tried actually completing a transaction and checking it after the fact? Like I said, it's been doing the same thing for me, but it doesn't actually add anything. It just says it is and then doesn't.

update: full scan found 2 viruses. issue remains

Your steam profile says you live in California, so it has to do with the collection of state tax probably. I live in Tx and they do the same thing if I use PayPal. When I lived in Washington (state), it did the same thing. It all depends on the state and if that state requires online companies to collect tax, even for online services. The only way around this, I have found, is using my debit card or a credit card.

You should contact paypal if the fee is only showing up when you go to their site but not steam. Might be some kind of new billmelater fee or interest. Ever since ebay bought paypal, they've been adding new policies to get more money out of us. They changed billmelater to paypal credit btw.

final update: not sure what the problem was but it is fixed now (no longer shows a price on paypal pop up window and didn't add any fee). No response from steam but paypal email saying I should be able to complete purchase and to contact them if the problem happens again. Theory is a glitch with paypal.

Nope. No additional fees.