TO ALL MEMBERS of YamahaDX (1st)
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It turns out Paypal also charged a fee if you try to pay in a currency other than your own.
I couldn't see any explanation of the fee, so I don't know if it was a flat rate or a percentage.? I found if I changed the currency to my own, it went away.??? I don't know if that meant Richard was charged a fee instead. Paypal charges its own rates for a currency conversion though, which may well be more than a card issuer would charge. In case anyone missed it, this is what Richard posted in the Yahoo group, just before closing it to new posts.? It contains the link to make a donation towards the costs: " To all, ? Everything is migrated to?/g/YamahaDX/ All validated members from here should have access there now. ? If you want to support the initial costs of the migration to groups.io I kindly ask for a donation via paypal on my account :? Whatever you think it's worth to you ! ? The statistics are : ? Total Members Processed: 3309 181 photos were transferred. 300 files were transferred. 2 files were not transferred, most likely because they were duplicates of existing files. 99 links were transferred. The following messages could not be transferred because of problems with Yahoo:
I've closed posting to this group, see you on the other side !
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Oops.? Sorry.? I remembered that the wrong way around.
If you pay in Euros, which is Richard's currency, there is no fee; there's just the currency conversion charge, built into Paypal's exchange rate... I think you can choose to use your card issuers rate instead, but you'll then get two separate things on your statement - one from Paypal and one from your bank / card company. If you pay in a different currency, there's a charge, which seems quite high in proportion to the sort of amounts people will likely donate. I started by trying to pay in GBP, which added on an unexplained charge, so I tried switching the currency to Euros, which made it disappear. - Andy |
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