PayPal currency fees when buying from eBay

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One of those will be currency A-to-B, and the other will be currency B-to-A.

Just ran into this issue trying to buy a bracelet online. As usual I take the price of the item... let's say its 300Euro and google what the exchange is to USD. Google tells me its 334.34usd. I went to check out which reroutes thru paypal but the usd total is far greater. Now if I google the exchange in the other direction (usd to euro) the numbers still don't work out. Google literally just reverses it and I end up with the same numbers. That being said, I don't take what the google results say as set in stone, rather just a close estimate. However the bracelet was 110usd more than the conversion. I can't see there being that much in fees. I'm confused and I dont know why Haha.
 
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Google will give you the current spot rate. This is the exact middle value of exchange. In reality the rate you can get will deviate from the spot rate, how far depends on the service you use.

Your 110USD extra on a 334USD purchase sounds way off. Are you sure the final figure that is higher is not including the taxes you would have to pay? Whereas the original figure was excluding that?
 
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Google will give you the current spot rate. This is the exact middle value of exchange. In reality the rate you can get will deviate from the spot rate, how far depends on the service you use.

Your 110USD extra on a 334USD purchase sounds way off. Are you sure the final figure that is higher is not including the taxes you would have to pay? Whereas the original figure was excluding that?
I used 300 euro as an example to keep it at an even 100. My point being that the google exchange isnt even close to what it really is via paypal. For conversation purposes heres the real numbers for the transaction I didnt go thru with...

482 euro to usd (via Google) is $537usd
Proceed with paypal and the total is $646 usd.

482 is price plus shipping so the rest has to be fees or some diffrence in exchange.
 
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I should also specify that I'm not buying thru ebay. Just an online storefront. Since the title to this thread is in reference of buying via ebay i can see that may be confusing but I didn't want to start a new thread when this one existed.
 
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I used 300 euro as an example to keep it at an even 100. My point being that the google exchange isnt even close to what it really is via paypal. For conversation purposes heres the real numbers for the transaction I didnt go thru with...

482 euro to usd (via Google) is $537usd
Proceed with paypal and the total is $646 usd.

482 is price plus shipping so the rest has to be fees or some diffrence in exchange.

IIRC, PayPal charges a currency conversion fee if you are paying in a currency other than the one associated with your account. And they also give you a terrible exchange rate. However, I don't think it would ordinarily add 20% to the purchase. It wouldn't surprise me to see as much as 8% beyond the conversion using Google.
 
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Don't they add in the tax(VAT,GST etc.) and postage and then convert at their inflated rates.
I have stopped buying from Ebay and PayPal altogether.
 
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Don't they add in the tax(VAT,GST etc.) and postage and then convert at their inflated rates.
I have stopped buying from Ebay and PayPal altogether.

Not ebay in my case. However the breakdown just states subtotal for goods and shipping. No other lines of info. I assume if there is tax and what not it would be another line in the breakdown or just added to the subtotal. Either way the total with shipping via the exchange rate on google is 100 plus lower than the exchange via paypal lol. I'll just try ordering the bracelet thru an AD like usually but the one I use has proven to be ridiculously slow the last 2 times i tried getting a bracelet or strap. Makes me wonder if certain stores are given priority over others. Took me 6 months to get the 50th speedy flatlink while other places online had multiple in stock ready to ship. Same when I got my snoopy strap... same store said they cant even get one yet another, out of the way AD got it in under 2 months. I just figured I'd skip the AD all together and order thru swiss watch spares but not at this exchange rate Haha.